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What's the best fastener for natural stone?

I want to fasten some boards to my basement walls to act as mounting backers. The walls are natural stone, Diabase if that's important. They can be damp at times. The boards will bear some weight, I'll be hanging stuff on them, and using plastic…
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What's a quick release fastening for joining two planes of wood along an edge?

I'm building a toy theatre out of wood and I want it to be easily disassemblable for packing down. If the front and sides are basically flat planes of wood meeting at an edge: (top down view, walls in blue, possible attachment points in green) what…
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Drywall screws for subfloor

Are drywall screws suitable for attaching a 3/4" tongue-and-groove plywood subfloor? In this case, joists are 16" O.C. and no glue will be used.
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How do I use threaded inserts?

I got these fasteners with table legs that I bought for a formica table top. I get that I need to embed the outer part with the big thread into the table, and then use an Allen key to fasten the bolts into that. But how do I get the outer part into…
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How can I fasten nuts in narrow places when installing a faucet?

Recently I replaced a faucet in the kitchen, but there is not enough room to fasten two nuts. These are not the nuts on the end of the supply lines; they thread onto studs to hold the faucet down. They're too close to the supply lines to be able to…
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does it matter whether you fasten a post to another member vs fastening the other member to the post (when using a screw)?

I'm trying to understand some basic principles here so I can make better design decisions for the deck I'm building. Suppose I want to fasten a 4x4 post to a joist/piece of blocking/beam/bottom side of stringer. Assume that the screw penetrates both…
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How much weight can panel wall support?

I recently bought a new house and it has this kind of panel wall everywhere. There was a table that was mounted with some l-brackets onto it and I would like to move it to the other room. However it seems that the gap between the panels and the…
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Fasteners for securing cabinets together

I'm planning on using GRK Cabinet screws to fasten cabinets to the walls, but plan on using GRK trim screws to secure the cabinets to each other, like these. Are these appropriate? The heads seem a little small, but I figured drawing force wasn't so…
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Securing rubber mats to garage floor

I'm renting a house in which I have some gym equipment in the garage. I'm anticipating buying some 3'x4'x3/4" rubber stall mats to protect the floor and deaden noise from dropped weights. I would be lying the mats side by side in a tiling fashion…
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"Top layer" plywood subfloor fastened to decking

I just tore out a ton of particle board subfloor that was previously used for carpeting. The entire house has decking (2x6 planks) running on a 45 degree angle over joists with 3/8" plywood over the decking, with the exception of a few rooms where…
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What is the fastener type and spacing to sister the top chord of a new 2x4 scissor truss onto an existing conventional horizontal ceiling truss?

I am remodeling a small room 12x12 and want to vault the ceiling by inserting a scissor truss alongside the existing conventional truss. The existing and proposed trusses are both 2x4 members 2'-0" o.c and the span is 12'. The desired result is to…
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How deep to place a deadman anchor for a slackline?

I want to place a permanent anchor for a slackline in my parents' backyard. I looked around at the different options, but I don't have access to some of them (e.g. no duckbill anchors), so I think I will go for the deadman anchor option as in this…
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How can I remove a stripped nut from a bolt?

I have a bolt with a nut on it that holds a small wheel onto a fork. I assume I over-tightened because now the nuts turns while I hold the bolt, but it will neither tighten or loosen. Also, it's on so tight, that I can't fit a saw blade between…
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How do I fix a broken brass drawer pull?

This drawer pull comes from an antique dresser; it mates with a threaded screw that goes inside the drawer. The collar on the drawer pull has gradually become thinner and cracked, and no longer grabs the screw with sufficient force to pull the…
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How to flatten Pop Rivets on the back side?

Pop Rivets and similar blind rivets are great for use where only one side is accessible, but where the back-side shows, the rivet head is not flush with the surface, just bulging out a bit from the divot made by the "nail" head. Is there a better…
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