Thread: Joint suggestions

Try the Hafele joinery supplies catalogue. Its on the web. The fitting you need is
Cat. No. SW 6 262.86.703. Page 352 in my Catalogue. I've used it lots for just this function. The Hettich company catalogue also on the web have a similar fitting That will give you a sides to ends solution.

To affix the base to the ends (and the sides also if you must) use M6 Connecting Screws or Socket head connector bolts from the same source. The catalogue number starts wiith 264 to 267 depending on length and finish. Page 367 applies. Get Hafele and Hettich to send you a DVD of their catalogue. Its easy to search but absolutely gigantic in BYTES so you wouldn't want to hold it on your hard drive.

PS Its a good idea to work out the hardware when you are developing the design not after its done as fitting the hardware is often a hell of a lot easier before the thing is glued up. I'm speaking as one who many years ago 'invented' a clever connector to pull rightangle joints in bench tops together for a kitchen I was doing. I had a number of these made up by a local machine shop with right and left angle threads and all the palaver that goes with that. I had to get a contract assistant to help me with the installationj of that kitchen. It was he that told me the fitting I had invented was in the Hafele catalogue at about 5% of the price of the very nice fittings I had had made.

Old Pete Tasmania