Thread: Name of Carpentry/Cabinet Fixing

Hello All,

I went out and found some of the fixings I am attempting to get identified and I took some photographs. Hopefully it will jog people's memories and a name for them will be found so I can buy some. Otherwise I will be off to the local steel place and find out if they sell round bar mild steel with the same diameter.

Kind regards
Lionel

Hello All,

I performed an Google Image search using one of the photographs and they are called either cross barrel nuts or cross dowel nuts. The Lord helps those who help themselves.

Kind regards
Lionel

I'm no great shakes as a carpenter, but I am reasonably experienced at converting precision milled timber into firewood. The only places I've come across those type of fastener/fixing, is on flat pack furniture, so thought they were cheap, dodgy Chinese fixings. I wasn't aware they were a legitimate cabinet makers' fastening.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I'm no great shakes as a carpenter, but I am reasonably experienced at converting precision milled timber into firewood. The only places I've come across those type of fastener/fixing, is on flat pack furniture, so thought they were cheap, dodgy Chinese fixings. I wasn't aware they were a legitimate cabinet makers' fastening.

Hello Ian,

Thank you for the reply. It was the first time I had come across them used on furniture. I have come across plenty of the cam nut connectors before in flat packs. When I took the furniture apart I then promptly lost the barrel nut part of the set. That hole in the universe that takes 10 mm spanners and just one sock visited my shed. I have been using an adaptation of that style of fixture when I make 100mm x 50 mm pine 'sleeper' engine dollies for things like my Chevrolet 216 cubic inch six cylinder motor and the Perkins 6354 diesel. Motors that I am not comfortable with hanging off an engine stand.

I will post up a photograph after I visit the engines again. The frames have between 4 or 6 castor wheels - depending on the weight of the engine, so I can move the engines around. The same technique is used to fix the timber frame between the furniture barrel/dowel cross nuts and my use of 12 mm cuphead bolts and holes drilled in the sides and ends of the timber frame of my engine dollies. For some strange reason I want to totally secure the 515 kilograms of Perkins motors when I am working on them.

Kind regards
Lionel

Hello Lionel, I hate to say it, but maybe have a look at Bunnings. Taskmaster M8 Electro Brass Cross Connector Dowel - 4 Pack - Bunnings Australia

Cheers, Mick.