Dowel screw etc

[Jacob]

What do you call the dowel screw + nut thing it screws in to and where can you buy them?

 

[Jacob]

OK found various types:
Nut Wood Insert, Nut Dowel Screw Fixing, Countersunk Barrel Nuts, cross barrel nut

 

[gasman]

Threaded insert

 

[dzj]

Hanger bolt.

 

[Alder]

Cross Dowels?
Russell

 

[Fitzroy]

Threaded insert, screwfix. Don’t trust the suggested hole size, try various holes and a scrap piece +\- 0.5mm from suggested. Harder wood needs a slightly larger hole or you can snap the insert putting it in.

 

[Cordy]

Do you mean These
Loads on the Bay

 

[Jacob]

Brilliant! Thanks for replies - spoilt for choice!

 

[peter-harrison]

make sure you get the ones that screw in not the ones that knock in.

 

[thetyreman]

+1 you want the ones with threads on the outside as well as inside, I get mine from ebay usually.

 

[Ttrees]

Here's something which could go hand in hand with the use of these things.
Backwards drillbit ala Frank Ford, great for neatly and accurately sinking a hole for the head of suitable bolts, works great in hardwoods, but alas no piccies of that.