I Googled table top clips and didn't get anything that looked like those Z or S shaped metal clips that slide into a dado and then screw onto the bottom side of the table top. What's the correct nomenclature? I had a sudden change in plans late today during assembly of my oak desk. I was gonna glue the top to the frame, then thought better of it!
dave
Tabletop clips.
I got a couple of packages of these from Woodcraft. But lots of places sell them.
Laz,
if he had truly checked google he would have found the first two entries were what he was after (using "table top clips" as keywords). If he had scrolled down the page he'd have found a lot more. He can't have checked google.
Greg
Come on Greg. This is Tail Gunner Dave we're talking about. If he was interested in "table top clips" , he probaly typed in "metal things to hold a the top part of a table from coming off" + "most expensive" or some such.
OBWW, who uses them anyway? I find it's easier to cut up some buttons on the bandsaw (
Well there you go. What are you doing assuming that TGD actually uses his tools to *make* things?
Want some OBWW? How's about dis:
actually I DID google and I reviewed the first 100 of 55,000 hits and didn't see what I was looking for, nor when I did "z" clip which is what I thought they were called. thanks for no help. I'll check Woodcraft.
Just found them in Woodcraft - 2 bucks EACH! worth about 28 cents. and I want them tomorrow, so that isn't gonna work. they just call them table top fasteners. I'll forage around in the hardware section of HD or OSH...
If you EVER ask what something is called, I'll be sure to make disparaging remarks.
dave
PM6564 wrote:
You mean these:
Boy you really do overpay. They're not worth about 28 cents each. They're worth about 19.9 cents each. (see the little note that says "bag of 10"?)
What do you call the corn that's in a big turd?
I'll post a few pictures when the desk is done so you can have a few more laughs. You and your ilk really crack me up with your superior attitudes. Kinda makes me ashamed to be associated, even in a peripheral, adversarial way, with any of you. For the time being I'll refer to you bozos as knuckle draggers in lie of miscreants.
Not enough of you watched "Sledgehammer" to know what the hell I've been talking about.
BTW, where do you guys find room for a shop in a double-wide, anyway?
dave
PM6564 wrote: snip
Mines in the basement
HA! My bad!@ They are indeed a bag of 10. In the catalog the print is so small I didn't see "bag of 10". I was being generous when I said they were worth 28 cents... but I still want to get something tomorrow morning so I'll browse HD. Maybe they will surprise me and have them. and I'd even pay 28 cents a piece if I have to! :)
ah, a corn dog!
dave
PM6564 wrote:
LMAO! looks like it's ready for a 100 year flood! what a kick!
did you get that from Google Images? wish I had a fast connection so I could do faster picture searches. It takes longer than my patience to pull up a whole screen of images in Google.
dave
PM6564 wrote:
The correct nomenclature is "plough". A dado goes across the grain.
If I were you, which fortunately is not the case, I'd use crazy glue and sixteen penny galvy sinkers applied with a waffle head rocket hammer.
Regards, Tom Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
Aha! Never knew that, always thought of it as a kerf in the apron, thanks Tom.
Even Paddy's Shellac gets a mention here:
Of course, we thoroughly modern types do indeed make a kerf - with our biscuit joiner - for the clip to rotate into.
and sixteen penny galvy sinkers applied with a waffle head rocket hammer.
While I was in college back on the 60's I worked in a Pier 1 store, my job was to assemble "dinning" tables imported from Mexico. The used 3" long wood screws with slotted heads...I found a 20 oz claw hammer made fast work of assembly...
They are called "buttons." I make them from scrap hardwood and hold in place with a one screw. There's another kind of fastener you can buy that looks like an "8." Using screw slots instead of a special fastener works too.
Liar. You did nothing of the kind. I just Googled for "table top clips" and the _very_first_one_ in the list (of 252 hits, not fifty-five thousand) is what you're looking for. The same search, without the quotation marks, returns over 350,000 hits, but the _first_ one is still the same.
Dolt. That's two bucks for a bag of TEN.
Good luck finding them at HD.
How much imagination does it take to suppose that "the clips for holding a tabletop to the frame" might be called "table top clips"?
Of course, you thoroughly modern types use the metal clips, which will fit in said kerf, as intended by Ikea, rather than using wooden buttons, as intended by god.
Regards, Tom Thomas J. Watson-Cabinetmaker Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania
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