Travel Question - Dining Table

[OTRA15]

The designs vary. When down, our table sits on two solid hardwood cleats with no strain on the metal wall bracket.

YBMV — “Your Bracket May Vary”

[Bill M.]

Yeah. Maybe they improved it since 1988.

[Cyclist]

We full timed for three years, our table has never been down. As someone commented, if the single leg looks out of vertical, a light nudge from my foot will straighten it.

[Airhead59]

2005 Safari 25C, have always towed with table set up. The manual contains specific instructions to leave the table up during travel. No problems with the hinge or leg.

[hpjack]

We have a 25 foot Safari with the table in the back. I di two things. Put a pad on the floor under the lag and second took a flat bungee cord, fasten to the steel leg under the seat. Come over the table and hooked to the door under the seat on the other side. I put a bolt with a loop so I had somethin to hook to. That table is now fasten held to the floor and is up. JW

[Silver.Sanctuary]

Originally Posted by m.hony

I have always left my dining table up.
Never crossed my mind to do anything else.
When I notice the leg wonky or leaning or crooked after traveling I give it a slight kick/nudge to straighten it...
Mostly the table leg works outward leaning into the aisle...
I want it to be perfectly vertical...

I have a 2004 Narrow Body 22 foot Safari (rear kitchen). The Yeti Tundra 35 fits perfectly between the seats under the table if it is left up. When reaching a destination, I lift it and put it on the dressing table where it is out of the way. With the smaller refrigerator/freezer of a 22 foot, this Yeti becomes necessary on long trips to keep from stopping at grocery stores every three minutes. On our longest trip (26 days) we also carried a Yeti Tundra 45 on the back floor of the pickup truck with the seats raised up. Either Yeti with dry ice on the bottom will keep things frozen (brittle) for seven days opening it only once a day to pull out the next days things to thaw in the refrigerator. We usually use one for a freezer and one for a cooler (block ice preferred). We got the idea on a thread here by someone who was debating about a 22/23 foot vs. a 25, and they got a price on the smaller one they couldn't pass up.

[ronderful]

Up or down doesn't matter. Changing the air in the tires every 2000 miles, now that is important.

Greetings from Casa Habanero, 2016 27FB

[xrvr]

I used to change the air, but didnt want that nasty old air all over me, so i changed to a macerater air exchanger. Now no mess!

[J-K Georgia]

Originally Posted by avionstream

I used to change the air, but didnt want that nasty old air all over me, so i changed to a macerater air exchanger. Now no mess!

Be green, be sure to recycle that old air.

[Gsmblue]

Table up. Sometimes with things left on it by accident! Never had anything even fall off the table!

[thiel]

Umm....

My owners manual says to put the table UP before travel. Just saying, that's straight from the source!


(If it's down already, I travel with it that way... but most of the time we travel with it up.)

[gregwall]

Originally Posted by SSquared

I'm one of the people who posted on the linked thread about the table coming down. I started a thread about my experience: http://www.airforums.com/forums/f516...ow-137789.html

In my thread, post 30 has a picture of my table leg modification. We have had no problems since making this modification.

Great solution SSquared. Took me a bit to see that it is a hinged hasp. I have put that on my to-do list. Also on my list is a shower door I have to lift up to open after 18,000 miles this summer. Anyone know how to fix that one?

[Mike1997]

In the motorhomes the folding table and chairs was an option vs the booth. Mine has the folding table with extension to make it longer. I always leave it UP...but never leave extension in unless in use.

[SSquared]

Originally Posted by gregwall

Great solution SSquared. Took me a bit to see that it is a hinged hasp. I have put that on my to-do list. Also on my list is a shower door I have to lift up to open after 18,000 miles this summer. Anyone know how to fix that one?

The hinge is just a plain old hinge from the hardware store. I removed the original hinge pin and replaced it with one similar to what we use on our hitch, so it is easily removable. The only time I removed it was when I rolled the floor back back to dry out the plywood after a leak.

Can't help you on the shower issue.

[Gene]

We always left the table up. In 62,000 miles of travel our table came down several times. First time the screws for the leg ripped out of the table and they were replaced with bigger screws. We found it upside down another time having detached from the wall, though the wall brackets were fine after I bent them back to work properly. I think it came down one or two more times. Just before we sold it, the leg would not lock anymore—the lock malfunctioned and the leg would not stay in place. Drilled through the leg, put in a bolt and locked it permanently. If we had kept the Airstream, I would have ordered a new leg.

Our new trailer (yes, an alien brand) has the same type leg and brackets and we haven't lowered it either. I like the idea of using a bungie cord to hold the table down and hopefully prevent it from moving during travel.

Gene