Bolt barrels

[Bad Woodworker]

Hi, I am in the process of making a dining table and am almost up to attaching the legs. I am going to use bolts and those barrel thingys that screw into the timber, i will use a cross member that is attached to the rails and goes behind the leg and screws into the leg. ( the bolts srew into the barrels on the leg) my question is can someone tell me what the barrel thingys are called and where I can find them, are they easy/good to use? hope this makes sense.


BW.

[bsrlee]

Lee Valley call them 'cross dowels' - item 00N18.12 thru' 00N18.30. Theirs are plated steel and true 1/4 inch, a lot of the local ones are a soft zinc alloy that strips out after a while and seem to be randomly 1/4" or 6mm, which means you can force the bolt in, but makes the stripping problem worse (been there......)

Lee Valley also have huge 1/2" dia x 4" stainless bench bolts with brass 1" diameter cross dowels in their bench hardware section if 1/4" isn't strong enough :U

[Wood Butcher]

BW, I know what you mean but for the life of me can't think of the name but.....

Hafele make something similar. Have a look at their website www.hafele.com.au and got to page 353 of the furniture fittings catalogue. Would something like the universal connector do the job?

[Big Shed]

Hi, I am in the process of making a dining table and am almost up to attaching the legs. I am going to use bolts and those barrel thingys that screw into the timber, i will use a cross member that is attached to the rails and goes behind the leg and screws into the leg. ( the bolts srew into the barrels on the leg) my question is can someone tell me what the barrel thingys are called and where I can find them, are they easy/good to use? hope this makes sense.


BW.

I've always known them as bed bolts

[Big Shed]

Hi, I am in the process of making a dining table and am almost up to attaching the legs. I am going to use bolts and those barrel thingys that screw into the timber, i will use a cross member that is attached to the rails and goes behind the leg and screws into the leg. ( the bolts srew into the barrels on the leg) my question is can someone tell me what the barrel thingys are called and where I can find them, are they easy/good to use? hope this makes sense.


BW.


These what you are looking for?

http://elraco.com.au/index.php?cPath=197_202

Look for Demon bolts to go with it, same section.

[Wood Butcher]

Forgot about elraco fittings. I think that the hidden nuts are more what he may be after http://elraco.com.au/index.php?cPath=197_199

[scooter]

I am going to use bolts and those barrel thingys that screw into the timber...

The way I read this bit is that BW is referring to threaded inserts (not a very good choice for this application I'd have thought)

BW, best you clarify what you are referring to.

These are called cross dowels.
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbnA-6wVhT69yuQM:http://www.woodpeck.com/media/caption_crossdowel.jpg (http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.woodpeck.com/media/caption_crossdowel.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.woodpeck.com/crossdowels.html&h=96&w=116&sz=4&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=pA-6wVhT69yuQM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcross%2Bdowels%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG)http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:TWi7XbcUUIYSpM:http://images.rockler.com/rockler/images/31823-01-200.jpg
This is a threaded insert

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:XqjF8AYimEUGPM:http://www.creativepro.com/img/story/img_12727_5.jpg

The bolts that are used with both are called connector bolts.

[Bad Woodworker]

The way I read this bit is that BW is referring to threaded inserts (not a very good choice for this application I'd have thought)

BW, best you clarify what you are referring to.

These are called cross dowels.
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbnA-6wVhT69yuQM:http://www.woodpeck.com/media/caption_crossdowel.jpg (http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.woodpeck.com/media/caption_crossdowel.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.woodpeck.com/crossdowels.html&h=96&w=116&sz=4&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=pA-6wVhT69yuQM:&tbnh=72&tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcross%2Bdowels%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG)http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:TWi7XbcUUIYSpM:http://images.rockler.com/rockler/images/31823-01-200.jpg
This is a threaded insert

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:XqjF8AYimEUGPM:http://www.creativepro.com/img/story/img_12727_5.jpg

The bolts that are used with both are called connector bolts.
"Thats the one"
Thanks to everyone that replied, I'm on to it!!

[maverick]

I have used both the barrel type and the threaded inserts and bunnings stock them.

Geoff