Dining Table wobble solution
The 2 pedestal dining table in my new Keystone 340fbh wobbles to the point that eating a meal on it is a disaster waiting to happen. I have thought about fabricating dimensional lumber and some sort o...
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gmc6000 wrote:camperpaul wrote:gmc6000 wrote:
Use a rubber mallet and pound them in hard. I had the same issue with my table. After driving the legs into the base and the table, they got very tight. They can still be removed, it just takes a little more wiggling.
By just wiggling the table while exerting downward pressure you will achieve the same result.
The sockets for the support tubes are tapered and the tubes are not.
Adding screws, brackets, etc. is like putting tape over a loose screw instead of just tightening it.
On the older support tubes and bases, I agree. Something has changed with the new bases and tubes. The tubes and bases are tapered, but they are not a match fit.
In that case, smack the tubes with a 2X4 to knock them slightly out of round.
You don't want a perfect fit or a loose fit; you want an "interference fit".
