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2. Dowel - Wikipedia

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   A dowel plate. The traditional tool for making dowels is a dowel plate, an iron (or better, hardened tool steel) plate with a hole having the size of the desired dowel.To make a dowel, a piece of wood is split or whittled to a size slightly bigger than desired and then driven through the hole in the dowel plate.

3. Home Depot - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company The Home Depot, Inc. A Home Depot in Onalaska, Wisconsin Company type Public Traded as NYSE: HD DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Retail (home improvement) Founded February 6, 1978 ; 47 years ...

4. Joinery - Wikipedia

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   Dowel joint: The end of a piece of wood is butted against another piece of wood. This is reinforced with dowel pins. This joint is quick to make with production line machinery and so is a very common joint in factory-made furniture. Cross dowel joint: A threaded metal dowel is inserted into a drilled slot. A screw is then inserted through an ...

5. Nail (fastener) - Wikipedia

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   Thumbtack (or "push-pin" or "drawing-pin") are lightweight pins used to secure paper or cardboard. Casing nails – have a head that is smoothly tapered, in comparison to the "stepped" head of a finish nail. When used to install casing around windows or doors, they allow the wood to be pried off later with minimal damage when repairs are needed ...

6. Home Depot's organized crime bust shows how hard it is to ...

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   The $1.4 million scheme Dell and his accomplices carried out is only a drop in the bucket. Retailers suffered more than $112 billion in losses due to shrink last year alone, according to the ...

7. Pin insulator - Wikipedia

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   A pin insulator is a device that isolates a wire from a physical support such as a pin (a wooden or metal dowel of about 3 cm diameter with screw threads) on a telegraph or utility pole. It is a formed, single layer shape that is made out of a non-conducting material, usually porcelain or glass .

8. Treenail - Wikipedia

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   Oak treenails that will be used to pin a wooden structure together. The one in the front has been used and pulled out, showing the way forces have permanently deformed the wood. A treenail , also trenail, trennel, or trunnel, is a wooden peg, pin, or dowel used to fasten pieces of wood together, especially in timber frames , covered bridges ...

9. Rail fastening system - Wikipedia

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   A chair screw (also known as coach screw [16]) is a large (~6 in or 152 mm length, slightly under 1 in or 25 mm diameter) metal screw used to fix a chair (for bullhead rail), baseplate (for flat bottom rail) or to directly fasten a rail.