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Originally Posted by Rusty
Thanks and glad to hear that.
I might use 3/8" carriage bolts with nylon lock nuts instead of the 1/4" that the plan states.
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I did not use nylock nuts, but I did use 3/8"-16 hardware rather than 1/4"-20. I countersunk the nut-side deeply and trimmed the ends of the bolts off so there is no danger of leg scrapes. I used self-drilling, epoxy coated deck screws with torx heads to screw the table top and benches down.
I'm a big fan of nylock (I upgraded he fender nuts on my '68 BSA with them, last night, as a matter of fact) but the nuts and bolts used on the table legs loosen up from the wood shrinking, not from vibration, so there's no advantage with nylock in this application. You will still need to tighten them now and then.