For shafts too small for traditional shaft keys, slots in the hub hold a dowel or pin inserted through the shaft. In many instances, particularly with couplings, designs cannot accommodate a Gib ...

He starts with flat lumber, cuts it into square strips, rounds those off with a dowel maker, adjusts the spine weight, and then dresses the shaft with nock, head, and fletching. It's a lengthy and ...

Two 0.625-inch dowel pins pressed into the rear of the block locate and align the bellhousing to the block, subsequently aligning the crank and input shaft. If the crankshaft and input shaft ...

Trying to eyeball the exact center of anything is a bad idea, especially when you’re working with dowels. This DIY dowel center finder is cheap and easy to make, and works like a charm.

While Ikea remains one of the largest purveyors of furniture around, its brain trust has remained hard at work over the last few years developing what it’s calling the wedge dowel. With this new ...