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:thyel: You should find the paler bench top much more pleasurable to work on than the old dark one.

Lie Nielsen are doing slippers? :o

Derek, you made such a song and dance about square dog holes that it would be a serious derelection to patch the holes and opt for round dog holes – even though they are more versatile.

Why not...

Ah. Poo occurs!

What was the reason for terminating the chamfers so low on the legs?

Actually, now that you mention farm implements, We used to have a huge red lead-painted thresher that was made out of pine and it was held together in places with captive square nuts.

The motor trade will be eternally indebted to you Derek!

Now that you mention it, I recall cars have used loose, square captive nuts for suspension mounts, body panel attachments etc. for decades.

Not negativity at all, just friendly advice gleaned from personal experiences and perhaps tinged with not a little dismay.


It's not the end grain that prevents the nut turning! As I mentioned...

You've totally missed the point Derek; square nuts do not require a spanner to prevent them rotating like hex nuts do when you tighten the bolts (assuming you make the nut recesses approximately the...

No, I'm Irish.


Your head hurts?

Found a bed bolt...

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Just watch out for the steel if you ever have cause to flatten the under side of the bench again!

If you tapered the ends of the bolts (à la old bed bolts), then you wouldn't experience any...

A rare earth magnet stuck on the end of a dowel would be your friend there.

Oh Derek... you and your wheel reinventing! :roll:

Rather than create potential problems in the future, why not go the traditional/obvious route and use square nuts fitted into appropriately-sized...