Are stainless steel screws worth it in this case?

[Roy Smith]

Spammer??? I beg your pardon. I'm just a happy customer.

[xrongor]

ah.... never thought about something in the wood itself eating the screw...

randy

[Rob Stokes]

I used coated deck screws on a Port Orford cedar chair...no stains and they look fine. Cheap too (relative to SS)

Good luck Rob

[Charlie Self]

IME, no matter what a screw is coated with, it eventually fails because the coating fails. Case in point: I built a redwood deck about 15 years ago using the best quality galvanized screws available at the time. When we get back to Virginia in a couple weeks, a large part of my early work will involve replacing boards in that deck where rusty screws have caused board ends to rot. Not about to use redwood this time, either. It turns black (mildew) in Virginia.

Charlie Self "The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." Jacques Barzun

[WoodChuck34]

Paul,

My second WW project ever were 2 Adirondak chairs. Painted mine white and used some deck screws from the BORG. They didn't rust but the black residue others mentioned was sure easy to see against that white background, and it wasn't easy to clean it off.

Chuck

[PSobon]

I must concur with Roy. I am the original poster and I wouldn't consider the act of pointing a fellow wrecker to a resource to be spam. In fact, I was not aware of this company and have placed an order with them because of Roy's headsup. I suppose in some cases there might be a fine line between useful information and spam but Roy's post falls squarely on the useful side.

[DonkeyHody]

IME, no matter what a screw is coated with, it eventually fails because the

I've had pretty much the same experience with coated deck screws, but they didn't last 15 years. Some of them only lasted 5 before they rusted to the point where they broke.

I've made probably a dozen Adirondack Chairs from cypress; some are now 7 years old, constantly exposed to weather. Used stainless steel square drive screws I got at the local Home Depot. Countersunk the heads and left them exposed. Never a problem. I figure the screws cost less than $5 per chair.

DonkeyHody "Even an old blind hog finds an acorn every now and then."

[Phisherman]

The SS screws won't blacken the wood like the zinc-coated ones. A boat supply shop will have all kinds of SS hardware.