[header] How to install bed bolts [title] Line up one bed rail with one end piece of your bed frame. [step] In many cases, there will be a slit in the end piece where you can insert the nub at the end of the bed rail. [title] Insert the nut, which will look like a barrel with a hole through the middle, into the appropriate-sized hole in the face of the bed rail. 
[step] The length of the barrel nut will run perpendicular to the length of the bed rail. [substeps] Insert the nut so that the " plus " of the screwdriver grooves faces outward and is visible.