Dowel used in a sentence

Dowel in a sentence as a noun

You can keep it, I'll just have my son duct tape me to a dowel.

Or just include a small pin or dowel with one side that sticks into the other side.

I suppose grooves on the dowel would help the glue a bit, but they also weaken the dowel.

Replacement is easy with a piece of hollow wood dowel cut to the correct length.

If you want to work on grip strength by itself take a small wooden dowel and drill a hole through the middle.

The beatings were terrible- belts, shoes, hockey sticks, dowel rods, etc - so my friend tried to avoid them.

Triton and some others have tried to compete with some dowel joiners, but they don't work nearly as well.

You drape the spaghetti over a dowel, let it dry, and cut it before you try to build a bridge with it!

Diamond cutters take advantage of this; you can break a diamond with a wooden dowel if you hit it in the right place.

The interior surface of the mortise or dowel hole would have to be similarly roughened.

But your failure analysis showed that the point of failure was not the dowel, or the glue, but the wood near the wood-glue interface.

Perhaps thread the dowel hole, as if for a larger bolt, and thread the dowel rod, as though for a smaller hole, and let the wood glue bite into both like the threads of a screw?

It's probably more important to rough up the inside of the hole anyway, since the failure photos mostly showed that the glue was still stuck to the dowels, and it was wood from the inside surface of the hole that broke away.

Grooving or dimpling one of the surfaces would be like nailing the dowel to the hole from the inside of the dowel as the glue dries, or adding o-rings that prevent lateral movement to a piece that requires lateral movement for assembly.

If they have an additional ring around the outside of each cup, could they not suction the water back into the system?Also, wouldnt this be easily defeatable with small dowel protruding "thorns" - or dimples, as on a golf ball - maybe alternating convex/concave dimple patterns?

I enjoyed the linked write-up, and also the "M&T vs dowel" and "M&T vs dowel revisited".Have you ever used your joint-strength rig to determine the minimum M&T geometry or dowel configuration required to make the joint fail before the surrounding wood fails?