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So I've been putting together so furniture and noticed that one drawer was put together with a single dowel and a screw, while another slightly larger drawer used dowels and a screw.
I'm not a design engineer so it got me thinking - how do the designers decide how many screws/dowels are necessary to hold e.g. a drawer together without being over engineered leading to high cost? Do they estimate the forces the furniture will experience and have tables for the force that a given screw in a given wood can sustain before failure and go from there? What about this dowel mystery?
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