Hi, 1st time here. If in wrong section please move. Query as title says. Currently helping DIL put together a flatpack bed for Grandson and are 1/3rd of way through...
We have upto now had the usual connections, camlock pins/dowels and nuts. Ones where you screw the pin/dowel into piece A (using phillips screwcriver) and secure that to piece B with cam nut using flathead screwdriver. Turning the nut as far right as possible and pulling piece A & B together. All well and good, until...
We then come across 2 pieces to be fitted with cam pin/dowel and nuts, But the actual pin/dowel does not have any 'screw' threads or any slots for screwdrivers at either end, still to be used with usual cam nuts.
This means (as instuctions say, having been checked by 3 different peope!) put cam pin/dowel into hole is piece Y, then push cam nut into corresponding hole and turn to secure! There is no instruction into what piece Y is to yet connect to, but this means that as both ends of dowel/pin are exactly the same, only way to secure other end of dowel/pin, into piece Z?, has to be with cam nut? This is where confusion is setting in.
So we are left with piece Y with 3 cam pin/dowels placed into holes, connected by 3 cam nuts screwed to the right semi-tightening, but other ends of dowel/pins are left (blowing in the wind) and can be wiggled, until we get to piece Z, which we haven't yet! But this still means that cam nuts in piece Y are not pulled tight, loosening all 3 of these pins & nuts in this piece Y. Piece Z will need another cam nut to secure to end of dowel/pin!!!
Have never come across this sort of connection of 2 pieces of unit?
Have to continue with build as far as able until we come to part where piece Y connects to piece Z to find out, but has anybody ever come across cam pin/dowel that has never featured either 'screw' thread, or without end that takes phillips or flathhead secrewdriver?
At end of 1st day doing the above, our heads were battered and had to call it a day as Gsons bedtime and school morning after. Please, please help as Gson is desperately looking forward to new bed (it is type with bed above a pull out desk and drawers, meaning he has to use ladder to sleep atop.
Will be so grateful with any help/advice in even the explanation of the above type of connectors, having never come across this type of cam pin/dowel & nut. Have tried to explain problem as easy as possible, but is still longer than hoped-Apologies.
We have upto now had the usual connections, camlock pins/dowels and nuts. Ones where you screw the pin/dowel into piece A (using phillips screwcriver) and secure that to piece B with cam nut using flathead screwdriver. Turning the nut as far right as possible and pulling piece A & B together. All well and good, until...
We then come across 2 pieces to be fitted with cam pin/dowel and nuts, But the actual pin/dowel does not have any 'screw' threads or any slots for screwdrivers at either end, still to be used with usual cam nuts.
This means (as instuctions say, having been checked by 3 different peope!) put cam pin/dowel into hole is piece Y, then push cam nut into corresponding hole and turn to secure! There is no instruction into what piece Y is to yet connect to, but this means that as both ends of dowel/pin are exactly the same, only way to secure other end of dowel/pin, into piece Z?, has to be with cam nut? This is where confusion is setting in.
So we are left with piece Y with 3 cam pin/dowels placed into holes, connected by 3 cam nuts screwed to the right semi-tightening, but other ends of dowel/pins are left (blowing in the wind) and can be wiggled, until we get to piece Z, which we haven't yet! But this still means that cam nuts in piece Y are not pulled tight, loosening all 3 of these pins & nuts in this piece Y. Piece Z will need another cam nut to secure to end of dowel/pin!!!
Have never come across this sort of connection of 2 pieces of unit?
Have to continue with build as far as able until we come to part where piece Y connects to piece Z to find out, but has anybody ever come across cam pin/dowel that has never featured either 'screw' thread, or without end that takes phillips or flathhead secrewdriver?
At end of 1st day doing the above, our heads were battered and had to call it a day as Gsons bedtime and school morning after. Please, please help as Gson is desperately looking forward to new bed (it is type with bed above a pull out desk and drawers, meaning he has to use ladder to sleep atop.
Will be so grateful with any help/advice in even the explanation of the above type of connectors, having never come across this type of cam pin/dowel & nut. Have tried to explain problem as easy as possible, but is still longer than hoped-Apologies.
