Furniture Cam Lock and Nut 

You've literally saved my life thank you so much!!!! Single mother trying to put up furniture with a baby is NOT easy lol!

You posted this ten years ago and it’s still helping people! I just needed to know what the heck I was doing with these things while assembling a shelving system. Thank you so much!

I seriously was ready to chuck my furniture kit out because of the these screws. I cannot thank you enough for saving sanity and my coffee table. I was able to put the thing together without inventing new swear words. Thank you!

7 years later this video is still helping...

I cannot overstate how important this video is! Ikea sets you up with the larger instructions and leaves the smaller details for people to magically figure out themselves.

This is why it's good to watch tutorials first, I genuinely never noticed that there are arrows on that part before. A huge help, thanks!

This was a life saver! I have been working on these part of my dresser for an hour. Took a few seconds after seeing how they work.

THANK YOU! I'm putting a desk together and this had me stumped!

Thank you so much. I was so confused when I saw those little guys and no instructions.

THANK YOU so much, demonstrating how the cam lock/screw work. Tangkula floor cabinet purchased from Amazon & thinking I may have bought something too complicated to assemble, you saved the day. Now, a senior lady on her way putting this cabinet together. Thanks!

My life savor 11 years later! Thank you

Thanks so much sir! For mfr to have the customer assemble and then offer no instruction adds insult to injury. I am so grateful for your simple video! Company coming!! You saved my life!!!!! Thanks again and again and again.... and again!!!

I've checked this video after struggling with these cam stuff over 30 mins. I was rolling these bits again and again.... Thank you so much. Really helpful!

Thanks for posting this! Really a lifesafer. I could not figure out what the point was and my pieces were not sticking together. After this, everything totally secured in the matter of seconds :)

Seriously thank you! You were WAY more helpful than my booklet instructions! Seriously, thanks so so much!

thank you for this! i grew up without a dad nor father figure so i have no knowledge over these kinds of things and I'm too shy to ask anyone and i wanted to build my desk myself. this really helped me!

Here I am in 2024 in the UK watching this with relief and saying thank you! I may actually have a TV unit after this! 😂

Yes!!! Also a single mom trying to assemble a desk for work and could not figure out what to do with these things! This video was EXACTLY what I needed and saved me so much frustration. Awesome . Thank you!

I am a nurse and I’d rather clean up poop than build furniture but here I am, putting together all sorts of stuff thanks to you!

omg you have literally just saved my life im building a cabin bed and I have to attach 2 slats together either side of the bed with these screws and I literally didn't know how on earth to do it thankyou so much.

Why I decided to assemble a console table on one of the hottest days of the year demonstrates my stupidity. Surpassed only by my ignorance of cam screws & nuts. Your tutorial was a gift from above, thank you so very much! Not even sure how I found it but your video is brilliant!

Thank you for this !! I was building a chest of drawers for my Grandmother and couldn’t for the life in me figure this out. Very grateful to you!

Thank you!! I've just spent the last 30 minutes trying to figure out how these cam locks work whilst assembling my TV stand, I think you've just saved me from insanity!

Thank you, I am a octogenarian single woman putting a desk together. Without this site I would have given up! Many thanks.

I was going crazy. Child of a contractor and I never ONCE saw one of these things! Just bought a DIY entertainment center and it came with a quantity of 50. You're a lifesaver. 😂

I was trying to assemble a desk, and the way the instruction manual explained the cam lock system may as well have been in a foreign language for how confusing it was. This video saved my butt, thank you!

Thank you so much! Trying to put a bookshelf together and the instructions were horrible even with the pictures....had me sticking the screw side in the cam lock and parts weren’t sticking. This helped a ton! Thanks again.

That was so helpful! I was assembling a storage chest and I couldn't figure out for the life of me how these funny looking screws worked. Thank you, kind Sir.

You're a LEGEND. I had only come across these for the first time today and I couldn't for the life of me work them out. Thank you.

I’ve been trying for 2 hours to figure this thing out.😂 I came here to say thank you so much .

Thank you man, still helping people 8 years later

Putting together a piece of kitset furniture, woefully inadequate instructions ... and never have I seen these little contraptions before. Panic! After finding this video, this has turned out to be the easiest part of my entire construction. Thank you!!!!!

After hours getting confused how to attached 2 parts of shelf together with this weird screw... YOU SAFE MY LIFE! THANK​ YOU.

Thank you!! I've been trying to assemble a wardrobe cabinet and was stumped when I saw these funny looking things! Manual didn't explain how to use them, good thing I saw your video.

I was ready to throw this across the room before I found your video. I have put together dozens of items, including a working fireplace and a Pilates machine, and none have stumped me like these cam locks. I didn't even know what they were named and nothing on the instructional sheet gave any clues! Thank you so very very very much!

Thank you!! These things are so poorly documented in the manual

Best video ever!!! Thank you so much!!!!! ❤❤❤❤ already done assembling my daughter's study table. Thanks

Thank you so very much for your explanation, the product manuals are always so vague. I am putting a shelving system together to show my husband that I CAN do this. You have just showed me how to master this!

My friend and I have been struggling for almost an hour. This video is heaven sent. Thank you! 😭👌🏼

Thank you so much for this tutorial. Been trying to figure out how to use this for almost 3 hours.

Helped me out big time. Was more of a help for this part than someone else’s whole video on the product I was building!

Your voice is soothing and the way you explained and showed us was amazing and you helped me a great and stopped my frustration completely, I feel so happy because of you. Thank you!!!😘

Thank you for posting this. It really help me out for putting together a table that had no explanation on how to use them.

Thank you so much, your video still saved me till this day! Those two things almost drove me insane!!!

Thank you. I was given the wrong diagram and no instruction for a French vanity table from Aldi. It's now all put together so much appreciated. :)

Thank you so much! I hadn't worked with cam nuts before, and I wound up with a cheap dresser that had it backwards in the instructions. They very clearly showed putting the nuts in first, then trying to hook everything together in a later step. Big parts of the body of the dresser used those cam nuts, so I was stuck and very frustrated...and then, thankfully, found your video. Suddenly, after doing things in the opposite order from what the instructions showed, it went together like it was supposed to. Thank you again!

Your video save all our work my love, even after more than 10 years ❤️❤️❤️ hope your pillow always cold on each side and traffic lights always turn green on your side❤️❤️❤️

this video will be relevant as long as IKEA and the other big box stores exist....in other words, FOR-EVERRRRR! Thank you!

My sister and I just watched this cause we were struggling to put my tv stand together. Glad I found this video 😅 We have a similar thing.

Thanks so much!! I bought a DIY TV console and no idea what these components were 🤕😭 You've saved me!! 😊😊😊

i got a bookshelf i sat here for 2 hrs trying to figure it out. instructions dont tell u 1/2 of this!!!! thank u for this video, i'm gonna try it tomorrow!!! im so excited, i was gonna have to wait for my neighbor to put together!!

I couldn’t have completed my bookshelf without this video, big thanks to you :)

I played house flipper 2 and couldn't figure out for the life of me why I had to turn a screw that doesn't go in or hold anything down only after I put the wood onto something else, you saved my cat!

This is why I love RU-vid... Thank you so much for this video.

THANK YOU!! over the years I've put together many flat pack furniture pieces and these screws are totally new to me. I couldn't figure them out.

Thank You soooo much. I was about to lose my mind. I was putting the nut in the hole first and then the screw part wouldn't allow the boards to come together seamlessly. No amount of hammering with my mallet would work. I had given up until I found your video. I'm gonna take everything out and then put the screw in the hole first and then place the nut in

Bro 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 thank you. I was lost on how to get this to work for my daughters vanity table ! Top tier

hell yeah my instructions made it look like I had to put these in the literal wrong way, I would not have a desk without this video

I just had a 3 day war with a flat pack! I think I just won thanks to you.

Very helpful. I hadn't realized there was a little arrow on the cam lock that tells which way it goes in, hence, my reason for being here. Thank you so much.

I looked up kmart bookshelf assembly and this popped up second... its exactly what i needed, thank you!

Best video ever!!! Thank you so much!!!!! ❤❤❤❤ already done assembling my daughter's study table. Thanks

So I bought a beautiful fireplace mantel only to find out it was flat pack. Annoying as it's huge but no problem I thought, I've done this before and I think I'm a reasonably intelligent enough person to be able to do this one also. Well bugger me, this piece of work was something else! I'm in Australia and I've never seen a cam lock and screw before so that was all new to me, I'm not gonna lie many tears were shed and a fair few cuss words may have also slipped out trying to figure it all out. So I finally got it all together, looked sensational, turned it upright and it all fell apart...was so devastating. Thank you so much for this video, now I realise that I was supposed to lock those cam things in place, maybe the darn instructions could be depicted using real life photos instead of cartoons!!

GEO, you didn't show us how to diy, but rather you saved our sanity. Thank you!

Thank you. You have no idea how grateful I am to you. I have been staring at my desk for hours trying to figure out how this worked. Thank you so very fucking much!!!

1 million thank yous. I couldn't figure out how that worked and you solved the issue with this video in under 4 mins :))))

Thank you so much. I bought bookshelf and there where no instruction. You just saved my day :)

Thank you very much for your help! The instructions to the table have miniscule pictures and now, thanks to you, I know how to put the cam nuts in.

Would never have been able to assemble my furniture without your video

Thank you, I did not screw in the screw first, that was it. it kept falling out. Now it works. Wow! that one simple guide made the whole difference!

Thank you so much for this video. I have been struggling for the past 30 minutes trying to figure these out. Well done.

Brilliant! Have despaired trying to get these finished. I didn't realise that the cam went in after not before the bolt Am now a DIY god!

Than you! This video was a big help for me, someone who never seen a cam lock screw and nut before, let alone used either.

So thankful I found your video! Brought a 6 cube storage shelf and had no idea what they were!

finally, after a year finding out how this thing work... well done sir!

Thanks so much, I couldn't remember how i put some units together, lol, thought i'd have to break them apart, you saved this pensioner a lot money replacing them. WooHoo. pizza & beers on me :)

I’ve been trying to put up a desk for the last 3 days. I’m so stressed😭😭😢

Thank you so much, had my TV stand up in an hour after watching this,.

This was the last piece I needed to finish my kitchen island and I could not figure out these damn pieces!!! Thank you!

OMG a week I've been trying to fathom these things out and thanks to the video..its done

Wow, thank you for this, as many others have already said. I'm trying to build my daughter's changing table & had NO idea how to use these things. This was a great help!

Thanks. I just started working at a furniture store. This was really helpful.

AMAZING👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾If I didn’t love you and this channel so much for education I would be so damn jealous. Girl! This is amazing. I bet this would cost 200$ in a store which I would pay for cuz I’m lazy and not handy. 😭. Just imagine how much money you save by being crafty. Bravo to you boo! Omg I to have that frame by the flower....got mine from zgallerie. (Of course they over-charge) 2:32

Thank you!!! Before watching this I had no idea what a cam lock was 😅 I was able to successfully assemble my ladder shelf

This is very useful as I was looking for how this works. Well explained and thank you.

So awesome!! Thank you SO much for this video. You saved the day for my all nighter Pantry assembling project. You're the best.

Thank you sir. You helped me build a vanity for my family. Many blessings!

Thank you so much! I put together a bookcase about 10 years ago and it did not have these so, I was kind of confused. After I watched you it took me a whole 45 seconds to make them work for all 3 of them. You saved my sanity. Thanks alot! 😁

You saved us such a headache lol. Thank you so much

Thank god for you tube. I couldn't figure out how this worked. I made the mistake of putting the lock part in first. I just looked up the damn screws on you tube and seen your video. Took me 30 min to get the lock part out. Finally i see how it works. What ever happened to the day things got delivered in one piece.

Thank you so much another single frustrated mom trying to put this together

Thank you!! I was so confused as to how this screw was supposed to connect two pieces of wood together. Shame my instructions had me install the wood so those holes are on the wrong side, requiring a significant rebuild. I honestly don't think I would have been able to complete this build without you, so thanks!!

Thank you for posting this! I was putting together a dresser with no instructions on how to install the cam screws/locks and this saved me a lot of time.

This was extremely helpful - thanks for making this available.

THANKYOU!!! You just saved the day!!! I've never seen one if these before. Thankyou so much!!!

THANK YOU!! I was struggling with these for so long. It was so bad, this video is a lifesaver!!!

Thank you soo much for sharing this video... I been waiting for 1days without dont know how to fix it... After Watch this video i am verry Happy to get fix things.... Thanks alot 👍👍👍

This was very helpful as I was putting together a coffee table but I was stumbling at these cams. Thank you 🙏🏼

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I am 13 and wanted to build a beside table for my mum for Mother’s Day but didn’t know how to use the camlocks

Mine too,haven’t a clue what to do with them , your video was very helpful, thank you