The Ultimate DIY thread - Ubuilding (Pics)
Hey all, There is another, albeit smaller, side to this whole RV thing - those crazy folks who build their own for whatever reason. Whether you've scratch-built it from the ground up, assembled a kit...
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One vote for the walnut counted and appreciated.
The tabletop isn't overly heavily, maybe 25lbs tops. It's 5/8 or 3/4 for the top with some doublers for reinforcements underneath where hardware is attached. I don't know if I'll use the same hardware to mount it (probably not) so I can remove the doublers if need be.
Of course, I could get some lacquer thinner in there to dissolve the contact cement and just remove the laminate altogether and re-glue it to a light composite top of foam and 1/8" ply instead....
weighed over 50 lbs., (oops, 22.72 kg,)
The funniest thing about the whole metric thing is that we don't really use it in everyday life.
When I buy a loaf of bread, it's 454 grams. (1 lb)
Then I go and get a 2.27kg bag of potatoes or flour (5 lb)
Both building codes and motor vehicle laws do the same thing by converting the well-known imperial units to their metric equivalents rather than assessing the values on their own.
You stop 3m from a stop sign because it's 10', not 3m.
Were we truly metric, a loaf of bread would be labeled as 500g and a bag of flour as 2kg, 2.5 kg, etc.
I checked out your build thread a while ago (that's how I knew you had a high-mounted fridge, lol). It's amazing that your table was that heavy. Then again, look at how many RVs run within a hair's breadth of the GVW even when empty. My Dodge C was about 9800lb on a 10,200 lb GVW. It's little things like this that add up to the 'weight creep' I mentioned back in the first few pages. I've been keeping weight in mind with every decision I make: it will be interesting to see how that plays out on the weigh scales...
