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eimac
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Apr 01, 2014

Changing dinette to U shape

Our Arctic Fox 1140 came with a dinette with two bench seats and I would prefer a u shape dinette. Has anyone converted a standard dinette to a u shape and if so, can you pass along pointers?
  • Pictures of our "U" Dinette.

    The only advice I would give is: Just do it! We thought about it for a long while and one day while I was replacing door hinges I had all the tools out and just said: "What the hay...." You'll need some putty or some such to fill the holes from the screws but otherwise easy......
  • Hey, We just did this in our AF 865. Took out the table which attaches to wall with some screws (8 I think). Whole table assembly come off real easy and is still functional in case you want to put it back. Then added the cross bench. waiting on pedestal mounts and leg. I will post pics when it is complete. Cheers.
  • Seems like going from a 4 seat/large table dinette to 3 seat/small table would be a disadvantage? What is the u-shaped advantage?
  • kerry4951 wrote:
    I did the conversion a few years back. The difference is I had the old style table wall mount bracket and not the new push down bracket, so my method might not work for yours. I have a thread on my conversion but not sure how easy it is to find it since I never myself had much luck searching past threads. I can post post a few pics if you cant find the thread. My conversion offers 4 separate uses for the dinette. I also have an AF 1140.

    Just FYI, your original post is (Here) however couple of the pictures dont show-and the rest are pretty small. The more recent reposting cinca linked to shows larger (& all 4) pics. thread
    Mark
  • I saved this from kerry4951's post in January 2013

    Topic: 4 in 1 dinette/U shaped couch mod
    Posted By: kerry4951 on 01/29/13 06:54pm

    Printable version LINK to post 26686427
  • I did the conversion a few years back. The difference is I had the old style table wall mount bracket and not the new push down bracket, so my method might not work for yours. I have a thread on my conversion but not sure how easy it is to find it since I never myself had much luck searching past threads. I can post post a few pics if you cant find the thread. My conversion offers 4 separate uses for the dinette. I also have an AF 1140.