My new trailer has a u-shape dinette slide-out. Wonderful idea, and we love the space, but after only 3 outings, the table is so wobbly, we can't use it. The single pedestal leg uses the typical cone-shape bases for the crimped-end leg. A close-up photo of the cone insert shows how the metal has fractured, making it unstable. The leg wobbles like crazy, both at the floor and at the table top. I've asked the manufacturer for a replacement. Here's the photo:Photo of cone base for dinette table leg

No photo, but I just had to replace ours also. Ours was the flush fit pedestal base. I bought 2 while I was at, since it is just made of cheap pot-metal.We got ours from PPL Motorhomes

You might consider buying and mounting a single pedestal base on it instead. I did that on the dinette booth arrangement we had in the other MH - worked just fine. Cost about $150.

Joy wrote:You might consider buying and mounting a single pedestal base on it instead. I did that on the dinette booth arrangement we had in the other MH - worked just fine. Cost about $150.Could you expound on this a bit? What kind of single pedestal base?TIA.

my dinette table also has the potmetal hinge. It bent on the first camping trip

Our table has two pedestals and it wobbled at first.What you have to do it line it up nice and tight and womp down real hard on the table top exactly over the pedestal. It won't wobble anymore.

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fj12ryder
Explorer III
Oct 09, 2012
Thanks Joy, I believe I understand now.
Camper_Mama_Bea
Explorer
Oct 10, 2012
ours cracked as well after about a year. we took the table out and put a regular 4 legged kitchen table in.
j_p_f_
Explorer
Oct 11, 2012
I think the problem with shaky tables that have two legs comes from the fact that the bases on the floor are not exactly lined up with the bases on the table. what I mean is they may be a little wider or farther apart on the floor than on the table, or the other way around. then in an attempt to get the table to not wobble we tend to whomp the table harder and harder each time it wobbles in an attempt to tighten the table driving the two taper legs that are out of alignment deeper till we crack the bases.
when I removed my dinette and made new tables I just used one leg and it work's better for me, I think because there is no alignment problems.
mikedboyd
Explorer
Jul 10, 2013
Has anyone switched their dinettes to use this type of leg? It looks to be a lot sturdier than the 'pound it in harder' post legs we have now. I just got a replacement floor flange as I broke the one I had (1 of 2) by 'pounding it in harder'.

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