Table top
For those of you who converted their dinette into an individual chair/table setting. What kind of table did you use. A version with 4 legs as it is available from stores? Or did you make your own w...
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Hudsoner wrote:westend wrote:This looks really great. How is the stability with the single center leg only?
Stability with the single leg was not good. The table was always getting leaned on and I eventually broke two of those aluminum legs.
I replaced the single aluminum leg with a set of steel folding legs. The table is now rock solid and the legs can be folded to take the table outside, should we need that.
You should be able to buy some sort of trim to edge band the table if you want that. I built all of the counter tops and table in my trailer and all of it is edge banded so I tried to keep everything the same.
When you say fold down legs, do you mean the kind of legs found on those banquet tables that can be moved around?
I made my living in medical research/biomedical engineering. From that aspect, I can handle tools (those air driven orthopedic tools like sternum saws, bone drills, etc., but I am not really a good woodworker and would have to find somebody to do the edging on the table top.
Yes, a folding leg set. Sorry, don't have a picture of that, as yet.
If you can operate on a bone or a cast, you can make a table top. Find some trim you like when you buy the panel and glue it onto the top's edge with something like Titebond III. Clamp it and let dry. IIRC, I did drive some small brads through the trim but the glue will do the job, as well.
If you're unable to do the woodworking, this is something any cabinet maker or half-proficient woodworker can handle.
