<div dir="ltr">You can use metal fasteners with treated lumber just fine. Hot Dipped Galvanized, Stainless Steel or Copper Coated. The new copper based treatments are safer than the old CCA, but I'd still not use it for the top/seat, maybe the ground contact parts of the legs though.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Graham McCulloch via Woodworkers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woodworkers@lists.sawdusters.org" target="_blank">woodworkers@lists.sawdusters.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I will Reiterate Harvey's warning, DO
NOT use pressure treated wood for building a picnic table!
Pressure treated wood contains <i>Copper Azoid</i> a poisonous
chemical. It will also react with metal components and cause them
to fail rather quickly. <br>
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<div>I believe that Joseph has some picnic table
generating software available on his site...</div>
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<div>look under the plans button...there might be a
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><a href="http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com/Zip%20Files/PicnicTables.zip" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com/Zip%20Files/PicnicTables.zip" target="_blank">http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com/Zip%20Files/PicnicTables.zip</a></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">Those plans will
generate every piece of a picnic table, including the
angle cuts AND the bolt locations. You input the length
and width of your table, hit the generate button and
POOF, there it is.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">I know it works
on Win 7 and all the older OSs - not sure 'bout Win 8
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<div>The Twisted Knot Woodshop, "There's never been a
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