You've got some good ideas here. The reason for the flat side of the dowel is to allow a nut to fit between the dowel and the pvc. The small bolt I use for a set screw goes through a hold in the pvc, and threads into the nut. When I keep tightening the bolt, it threads through the nut and clamps down on the flat part of the dowel.
You could, as you suggest, rid the dowel, and glue half round pieces on the end. That would give the same result. I've noted in an earlier post that you could use a router for this. That might work better, but my router was set up for a different job at the time and I didn't want to change its settings. The idea of a square block sounds good, but my pvc is round. You do want to have the dowel sized so that it won't flop around too much inside the pvc. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
