The posts are fastened with dowels placed at equal distances apart.
This table may be made with mortise and tenon joints or with dowels as desired.
The top will have to be made of two or three pieces joined together with dowels and glue.
If dowels are used, the upper and lower rails should be made 2 in.
There are some cases, however, where the use of dowels is scientific and just what is required.
Then clean any hardened glue from the dowels and glue them, as before, into the other piece, this time putting glue on the flat surfaces which are to come together.
Wipe off the superfluous glue and repeat the process with each of the dowels in that half of the joint.
The use of dowels for such purposes is not to be recommended, however, although very common in cheap work and in much work which is not cheap in price.
Dowels are sometimes used in joining the edges of pieces, as in Fig.
Dowels of various sizes will usually answer for such framing as you may have to do (though a rift-pin is stronger).
The expedient of splitting and wedging tenons and dowels can often be applied in repairing (see Mortising and Dowels).
You will also use wedging to secure tenons and dowels (see Mortising, etc.
Screws (which are best), nails, or dowels should be used, as they will give some play to the pieces.
A common use of dowels is to fasten the frames of tables, chairs, bedsteads, and various domestic articles.
Dowels can be used with this joint (see Dowelling), or grooves can be cut and a strip or spline or tongue inserted (Fig.
Place these papers in proper order on dowels similarly placed to ones in original mound at, say, 1 inch vertical interval apart.
New force all the paper sheets down the dowels onto the bottom sheet, and we have a map of clay mound with contours.
Indicate where the holes made by the dowels pierce the paper.
Use wire and slice this mound horizontally at equal vertical intervals into zones; then insert vertical dowels through the mound of clay.
One-inch or 2-inch planks can be made into any desired form by the use of dowels and similar procedure followed.
It needs little or no explanation beyond the fact that the dowels should be at right angles to the line of joint, and consequently the dowel at the outside edge of the frame will have to be much shorter than the others.
Circular dowels are shown at one end, and rectangular wooden pegs at the other; both methods are equally good, and, of course, the dowels are only glued into one leaf.
The back one is bored to receive the dowels, and the front one shows the dowels glued in position.
The object of these dowels is to guide the table leaf into its proper position when the leaf engages the table proper, and to make the flat surface of the table top and leaf register correctly and thus ensure a level surface.
A safe rule for the spacing of dowels when jointing sideboard tops, dressing table and wardrobe ends, etc.
The method of working is: Plane up, mark out, bore holes, countersink, glue dowels and complete joints.
The positions of the dowels are set out geometrically, and the centres are pricked through with a fine-pointed marking awl (see sketch of template, a, Fig.
For cabinet-making and similar work straight-grained beechwood dowels are mostly used; these may be bought by the gross, in lengths of about 36 ins.
The holes in both pieces are bored for the dowelsbefore they are rebated.
When hammering dowels through a plate the hammer should on no account be allowed to come in contact with the face of the dowel plate, or the cutting edge of the hole will be spoilt.
It is usual to bevel both edges of the timber from which the cradle is formed, thus accommodating all sizes of dowels from 1/4 in.
The edges of the boards are first shot to a true joint; then the face sides are placed together and the lines for the dowels are marked across the edges with a fine pencil and the aid of a try square.
This form of crank or handle will be found easier to make than the one in which a wire is expanded in the slot of a stove bolt, and it can be used for many purposes, especially where dowels serve as axles.
The spools may be pushed onto dowels which are fastened into the vertical piece.
We have seen very nice boats built in Norway with dowels instead of nails; they were clinker built, and the dowels were about 1/2in.
The holes should be bored with a sharp centre-bit; and if the dowels fit tightly the wedges may be dispensed with, as the ends will spread sufficiently under the clinch hammer without breaking the grain.
These dowels work in holes in the upper and lower spokes, midway between the inner and outer felloes.
In many of the models in this book such dowels are used.
Dowels (made by a different process, however,) can often be bought at hardware stores.
The violin string is glued and wedged into holes in the upper and lower dowels so that the turntable will swing 3/16" above the floor.
Ulysses, as a shipwright well skilled in his craft, uses axe and adze and auger, and with the latter makes holes in the timbers he has squared and planed, and with trenails and dowels ties them together.
But the invention of trenails and dowels must have preceded the later practice, and have led the way to the building of such boats as those described by Herodotus (ii.
The fine white-birch dowels were first turned round on small lathes and afterwards into little bugle and bottle-shaped ornaments, then dyed a glistening black and strung on linen threads.
A year previously the old Squire had made an agreement with a New York factory, to furnish dowels and strips of clear white birch wood, for piano keys and passementerie.
A Cushion Top Can be Woven on a Simple Hand Loom] Buy three half-inch dowels or long round sticks; which may be bought from a hardware shop; and sand-paper till they are quite smooth.
The way to join a braid] Two plain boards that are as long as the dowels and three inches wide by a quarter of an inch deep will be required now.
The distance between dowels lengthwise should be measured, and lines squared across the edges with knife and try square.
The ends are sawed out of the bottom piece, pivoted with two 1/4-inch dowels and when stood upright the lower part strikes against a cleat, which acts as a rest for the rack and a stop for the end piece.
Allow the glue to harden over night, and saw off the dowels next day to the proper length.
The separators, instead of being grooved wood, am each a sheet of wood with six dowels pinned to it.
Some use wooden separators which are smooth on both sides, but have dowels pinned to them.
The bolts or dowels would be good for only a part of the safe shearing strength of the steel, because the bearing on the concrete would be too great for its compressive strength.
Separate slabs of concrete with bolts or dowels through them would not make a reliable beam.
Dowels without head or nut would be much less efficient; they would be more like the stirrups in a reinforced concrete beam.
The dowels are then cut in two, providing a pair of pegs with large heads.
The outwale pegs are made by splitting from a balk of birch, larch, or fir roughly squared dowels about ¼ inch square and 6 to 9 inches long.
The dowelled joint is a square glued joint strengthened with hard wood or iron dowels inserted in the edge of each board to a depth of about 3/4 in.
To check any inclination to warp and rise, however, the edges of the blocks in the better class of floors are connected by dowels of wood or metal, or by a tongued joint.
The jambs or posts are tenoned, wedged and glued to the head, and the feet secured to the sill by stub tenons or dowels of iron.
The top ends of the front posts are hollowed, and fitted with inserted dowelsfor the reception of the front rail.
The front posts are preferably dropped over metal dowels leaded into the stone floor, at 1 ft.
But when they become dry with age, or are allowed to lose their sap and die standing in the open, they get harder, and from their toughness supply a strong material for dowels to be used in joints and other articulations.
It is held together by dowels and crossbeams and twisted lashings and supporting props.
Greek clamps and dowels were usually of iron and they were fixed in their sockets by means of molten lead run in.
On the side and rear rails, centers for dowels are located 5/8" from the top and lower edges and half way between the sides.
When assembling, place a small washer between the dowelsand handle, as shown.
These dowels should be held in place in the legs by 3/4" brads, care being taken not to nail where there is to be a moving joint.
After all holes are bored, the round sticks called dowels should be cut, one-eighth inch shorter than the combined depths of the two holes.
This allowance is made so that glue may work under the ends of the dowels and also that the dowels may not be too long and thus prevent the edges of the joint from coming together.
Apply glue to the dowels and insert them in the holes and spread glue on both of the edges, as shown in Fig.
A portion of the cedar dowels which connected the drums of the columns of the Propylaea may be seen in the Bronze Room.
On each shoulder-blade is a deep oblong sinking, which can only have served for the insertion of the wings, which must have been attached by dowels in the holes pierced round the sinkings.
Plugs or dowels of lead are formed by pouring molten lead through a channel into dovetailed mortises in each stone (figs.
Dowels are used for connecting stones where the use of cramps would be impracticable, as in the joints of window mullions, the shafts of small columns, and in similar works (figs.
The joints between one block of stone and another are formed in many ways by cramps, dowels and joggles of various descriptions.
John Smeaton in his Eddystone Lighthouse used dowels of Purbeck marble.
The pebble joggle joint is formed with the aid of pebbles as small dowels fitted into mortises in the jointing faces of two stones and set with Portland cement; but joggles of slate have generally taken the place of pebbles.
For hunting bows drawing over sixty pounds, the dowels should be three-eighths of an inch in diameter; for lighter bows five-sixteenths dowels should be used.
Where dowels are not obtainable, you can have a hickory or birch plank sawed up or split into sticks half an inch in diameter, and plane these to the required size, or turn them on a lathe, or run them through a dowel-cutting machine.
Take a dozen dowelsfrom your stock and cut them to a length of twenty-eight and one-quarter inches, or an inch less or more according to the length of your arms.
If possible, you should select these dowels yourself, to see that they are straight, free from cross-grain, and of a rigid quality.
The ends of the strips forming the frame should be mitred and either nailed together or fastened with dowels and glue, as described in the construction of the desk (see Fig.
It is fastened in place with dowels or pegs of cedar (No.
An extra piece of cedar is carved and fitted withdowels on the prow of this craft also, “lifting” the lines of the hull somewhat.
The joints, however, can be made withdowels if desired.
The side rails are attached to the posts with three dowels to each joint.
Illustration] The tenons and mortises are first cut for the crosspieces at the bottom of the posts, and, as it is best to use dowels at the top, holes are bored in the bottom piece and also the ends of the slats for pins.
Now force all the paper sheets down the dowels onto the bottom sheet, and we have a map of clay mound with contours.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dowels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
