Has anybody ever tried angled pins?

**JBark** · 04-08-2008, 10:26 PM

I'm trying to figure out whether I ever saw this somewhere or I have come up with it myself...genius that I am. I bought a small office "cube." It is a simple box with a file drawer and one of those computer power strips inset into a piece of wood. I didn't need the power strip so I pulled it out and remove the piece it was mounted on, leaving me the perfect opening for a drawer (soon to make.) It has a horizontal divider which seperates what will be the two drawers and this divider is in a dado in the sides. It worked itself out of the dado in the years it was in storage where I work, about an 1/8", maybe 3/16". Enough to bug me as it sits below my desk and stares at me every day. I put some 5 min. epoxy in it and clamped it up and shortly after removing the clamp it opened up a bit. PISS ME OFF! I hate that crap.

New idea, drill angled holes through the sides and glue square wooden pins in. My thinking, the pins will lock the divider in place since the apposing angles prevent the divider from pulling out, the glue keeps the pins in the dividers.

Is this common? Does my description make sense? Has anyone else done this or heard of it being done?

John

**Sawduster** · 04-09-2008, 08:18 AM

Except for the square pegs in the round holes (thinking glue surface here), sounds like it ought to work. Much like driving brads at opposing angles to install a case back that might need to be removed later. Driving them all straight in, little force would be needed to push the piece out, but driving them at opposing angles, they lock each other.

**TDHofstetter** · 04-09-2008, 08:43 AM

It's not COMMON... but it's entirely sound. Round dowels would work as well.

It's GOTTA' be done with everything in the fully-clamped-up condition, o'course... and it'd be totally fine to do it with round dowels instead of square pins.

Truth be told, the dowels may not even need to be glued in place. Chances are very good that nothin' but reaction tension will keep 'em in place forever.

-- Tim --

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