On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:17:12 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

In article ,
says...

In article ,
gary wrote:

A cross dowel is used to join two pieces of wood. That's not what I needed
to do.

The issue was how to get strong threads in particle board. Cross
dowels are used for this, in lots of cheap furniture.

Joe Gwinn

While they are how do you get them in place in an existing desktop?

With a drill? Not sure what your question really is here.