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Having just had the pleasure of borrowing one of these to complete a demanding project, and having had to give it back, I'd like to track one down for myself because they're so accurate! They have a solid hexagonal pillar with the rack machined into the solid steel, with a simple one-piece cast...

Thankyou very much Paul and Mike W. What you say exactly fits my instincts about this. Tomorrow I'll approach the supplier of the screws and ask to exchange them for cross dowels. In the meantime I'll rattle Taunton's bars AGAIN -the 'ask an expert' site for John has been down for a while...

Thankyou everyone for your valuable wisdom. I would have been a lot happier to pursue this cross dowel on captive nut approach, had I not been faithfully following John White's directions for his 'New-Fangled Workbench' - Fine Woodworking Dec'99. Instinctively, I sensed the fistful of spaghetti...

I am about to plunge 6" three eighths dia. coach screws into one and a half inch thick 'red pine' endgrain. The thread profile is aggressive and thick, So far, my best advice to date is - "Drill a long thinnish hole and keep trying it , if it jams, widen the hole until it goes in. You'll soon...