(Dis)assembling Pro pack 3
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Tuffy, I already asked the same question to Clay, but since both the bolts in the top plate and those in the bottom plate are threaded, and the bolts from the top plate are pretty long, can’t you just use the bolts from the top plate to directly mount the top plate to the bottom one?
The bolts I have in the picture are just there for aesthetic purposes like you guessed. The holes on both plates are not threaded, they’re just through holes because the threading is in the upright pieces of the shelf system. None of the bolts removed from top and bottom plates are long enough to go through both together, hence the need for longer bolts. The other part of that equation is that you also need nuts for the longer bolts to screw into to hold the plates together.
-Clay
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Mark I believe they are both bolts, male threads, the nut portion, the female threads, are inserts set or glued into the shelf verticals. You need a bolt to go on the screws. That’s why Alan used that funny insert thing. The bolt side is male and the receiver side is female. It works well because it gets smaller to tighten the space between the top and bottom plate without having anything protrude above the top plate or below the bottom plate.
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