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Anyone help with screws advice?

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Hotwaterbottle1 · 23/07/2017 10:07

Trying my best at diy since ExH left! My daughter wants her old single bed back so got it out of the attic & gave away her high sleeper. No screws though with bed.

Can anyone tell me from pics what I need to buy?

Anyone help with screws advice?
Anyone help with screws advice?
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PigletJohn · 23/07/2017 12:09

look into the holes. It looks to me like the bedhead legs have a threaded metal insert that a bolt screws into. Measure it carefully. It is pretty certain to be in millimetres.

the inserts, if you saw them in the factory, might be rivnuts
which are inserted from the opposite end to the bolt, so they don't pull through the hole. If so, you just need a bolt of the same size. It looks like the bolts are inserted and tightened through the big round holes in the ends of the bed sides. In which case you will need hex-headed bolts that you can tighten with a spanner, because I can't see how to get a screwdriver in.

They will be metric bolts.

If the diameter is, say, 8mm. they are called M8 bolts.

The length you want, including that part inside the nut but excluding the head, gives the rest of the description. For example if you need an 8mm bolt 50mm long, it is called a "M8x50 hex head bolt" It does not have a point on the end like a wood screw.

This system is used throughout the entire world apart from three backward nations that do not have much interest in international standards.

The other possibility is that you have Bed nuts. This is a sort of nut with a rounded head so it does not scratch your leg even if it sticks out of the frame. You might not think it looks like a nut, but it is. They are also called sleeve nuts.

PigletJohn · 23/07/2017 12:27

If there is no threaded insert in the holes in the bedhead, you might have barrel nuts

the bolt is inserted from the head end, and the barrel is held in the big hole in the bed side until you can get the bolt started. The big hole does look abnormally large. There might be a special insert to fit it, perhaps to spread the pressure. Get a set with the key to tighten them up, unless you have plenty of Allen keys.

FinallyHere · 23/07/2017 12:43

I recognise the knowledgeable answer from the PP above but just to say that I would never trust myself to measure things carefully enough when there is only one mm difference. I would search out an old fashioned hardware store, the kind that lets you buy single screws (or bolts...) and buy a range (either side of what I think is the correct measurement. Trying them, you would be sure which ones you actually needed. All the best

Hotwaterbottle1 · 23/07/2017 16:53

Thank you both so much!!

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