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Proper name for a bracket/gizmo

If you were looking on the web, or on the McMaster website for a gizmo that would hold two pieces of sheetmetal at right angles to each other, with the side of one going right up to the face of another, what would you call it?

'Bracket' not only implies a little piece of right-angle stock, but it seems to get a hit on each one of the thousands of catalog pages in McMaster, and about one in ten pages on the web.

I'm thinking of something that would be an alternative to the PEM R'Angle fastener

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something that lets you put the screw into the panel that's getting butted up to instead of the panel doing the butting.

I've seen little rectilinear blocks with threaded holes, but better yet would be a little plastic piece that goes into a hole in the panel that butts up to the other panel, and engages a screw from the panel that gets butted up to.

If you have links to manufacturer's or distributor's web sites that'd be particularly nice.

TIA.

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Tim Wescott
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Not sure what they're called , but the last item you described is very common on cheap consumer-assembled furniture . Stuff like bookcases and computer desks . Checked with a furniture/cabinet hardware supplier ?

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Terry Coombs

I'd call it a threaded mounting bracket;

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I generally buy some aluminum angle stock and put through holes in one flange and tapped holes or Pem nuts in the other, or bend a flange on the less visible panel.

Euro terminal blocks are a quick solution.

Jim Wilkins

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Jim Wilkins

I suggest you look at the hits you get that are NOT appropriate, pick out the most appropriate key word and add it to the search criteria with a minus sign in front of it. That way, any hits with that "minused" word will be removed. Then you will have a smaller number of choices to deal with. Keep adding minuses until you get to the stuff that interests you. The search engine at the McMaster website may not be that sophisticated, but you can do the same thing at google to get you into the ball park. A plus sign has the opposite effect, demanding to the search engine any hit it displays MUST have the term so signed.

Another approach is to put your search criteria within quotation marks. For instance, the word bracket gets you all the hits where the word bracket is anywhere within the title of the hit or sometimes even the description. simply adding the word angle doesn't help much because the search engine now gives you all hits for BOTH bracket and angle. But, putting in the term "angle bracket" (using the quotes) forces the searech engine to look for that EXACT phrase (called a "literal") and only hits that have it, appear.

Here's and example of a search you might end up using:

+"angle bracket" +threaded -"45 degrees" -plastic

There's more, if you are interested. If not, I hope this helps, Pete Stanaitis

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