Hello one and all,
I lost a couple of bits from my kids cot, and unfortunately I dont know what the bits are in order to be able to buy them again. Does anyone know the technical term for the hollow threads that the bolts thread into?
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A bit more googling instead of flights of fancy about hardware stores and I see you get good results with "wood insert nut".
Thats the one! Thank you very much! I'm on my way.
It's called an insert nut.
You'll be able to buy them at Bunnings/Masters or your favorite hardware store.
You mean people have a favourite store other than Bunnings? Get outta here!
With all these sales lately, I'm visiting masters almost weekly. I can't remember the last time I entered a Bunnings. Been ages.
Do you have experience with different screws? Is a 40 cent screw a good one?
Usually the best ones a free.
A cheap screw can damage your tools.
But if I need a free one, I have my usual go-to box.
Yes, if you have to pay to screw make sure you pay well.
The cheap screw won't satisfy you.
And that infectious feeling will drive you nuts.
Not to mention, if you damage your tool, you'll really be screwed.
if you're assembling a cot then you need a go-back-in-time-and-don't screw
I'm no tradesman, but I would call it a self-tapping nut for a machine screw. Google image search gives similar results with a search for: dual threaded self-tapping nut
What I would actually do is take it to a local suburban hardware store that has been in business for three generations and ask the grey haired bloke sitting on the stool up the back in the blue dust coat. He will then go to a shelf with 2000 small boxes and he will pull two boxes out. One will have the right nut, the other will be the almost identical nut, but in imperial not metric, so out by a fraction.
He'll nonchalantly say, "Here you go", charge you 40c and go back to the paper.
The worst part is, he could have got the correct box first go, but he wanted to appear modest.