Posted by MQracing [ 141.151.13.134 ] on December 03, 2005 at 09:47:16:

Hello Knights:

I'm building a chassis with whose four sides are made of alum and whose top and bottom plates (covers) are made of wood. what I want to do is to
secure the top and bottom plates in place by using a threaded bolt that goes through the alum box sides (right and left) and gets screwed into the top plate (so that the hardware from the top is blind). I'm a little worried about the wood "holding" the threads and not stripping out.

Is there a metal slug or threaded insert that we could drive into the top cover (on the inside) and that would be threaded say for a 4-40 or 6-32 threaded stock?

any other ideas?

cheers,

msl

Replies:

• Re: is there an equivalent PEM nut for wood? - MQracing 10:00:03 12/04/05 (4)
  • Re: is there an equivalent PEM nut for wood? - Bill Epstein 06:49:44 12/05/05 (3)
    • Re: is there an equivalent PEM nut for wood? - MQracing 21:42:50 12/08/05 (1)
      • Re: is there an equivalent PEM nut for wood? - Steve Eddy 02:11:32 12/09/05 (0)
    • Re: is there an equivalent PEM nut for wood? - MQracing 20:04:41 12/05/05 (0)
• BTW, what's a PEM nut? nt - Bill Epstein 04:34:14 12/04/05 (1)
  • Re: BTW, what's a PEM nut? nt - MQracing 07:50:02 12/04/05 (0)
• Re: is there an equivalent PEM nut for wood? Absolutely! - Bill Epstein 17:00:50 12/03/05 (1)
  • Re: is there an equivalent PEM nut for wood? Absolutely! - Wayne Parham 11:59:33 12/05/05 (0)