Hi there, I am looking for some advice and ideas for a project I am going to make for a client. Here goes: A dining room table to seat 8- 10 guests, round or oval ……. BUT 8- 10 times a year it must hold up to 22 people, what do I use for table slide to expand a table from 80″ to 230″. There is going to be a number of legs on the leafs. Any comments you may have is appriciated.
Thanks John Jensen
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That's 80 inch X 3 geeeeeeeeeee..
Just a thought.. I made this table along time ago.. Not the easiest thing I ever did but worked out pretty well.. Sold it for a fair price.. Fair to me means I made some money! I usually break even or less....
FWW had a article called "Designing for Dining" by Tage Frid
It's called a Dutch pull-out.
Anyway, the leaves are stored under the table top and pull out on tapered slides.
Actually pretty cool and simple and (big and) if you get the tapers right, it even works!
I'm not sure of the limits of doing this because you will have 80 inches hanging out from each side.. Probably need three or four tapered slides for each leaf and beef up the slide supports on the main table. The idea is nice because the leaves don't have to be put 'away' someplace and get all banged up in storage.
The design is on the FWW CD and you can probably download it for a few dollars from FWW??
I actually forgot about that table untill I saw your question. Geeeee, my old brain still remembers something... Life is GOOD!
Thanks Will, I did indeed download the article Designing for Dining.
I made table slides for a dining table using 500lb capacity full extension drawer slides. The table I built opens about 50 inches. I have two 22" leaves that store in the center pedestal. I rigged a set of cables so both sides open simultaneously. The table is very solid when extended. I beleive the same slides are available in 60" lengths which could give you up to 120" of opening. Would take a bit of engineering to make it functional and elegant at the same time but it sure it's doable.
Tom
Douglasville, GA
A consideration that will aid this expansion is to start from a more comfortable minimum length. To seat 8 to 10 one would want a table from at least 8 feet to a more optimum 13 feet. The room space obviously exists, so to cramp the table into a beginning length of 80 inches seems odd.
Jeff
Thanks jpatrick, in order to accomedate the long table furniture is to be moved. The funny part is that the table is going in to a new house ( big and expensive ) and as usual kitchen and dining is always cramped. I will let you all know how it comes out.
Thanks again John Jensen
John, That is a pretty tall design order. A single table that starts out 80 inches and goes out to 19' is a bit of a stretch. I would suggest to the customer that you design ####great table that satisfies the first part, but others that are brought in and covered with table cloths for those other times.
If you try to design one table to go through that much of a change, it is going to be very hard to keep from destroying the first design. Although I do like a design challenge, and while typing the last sentence, I caught a glimpse of a modification that I could do to one of my earlier designs that could work.
The idea was to make the first table so that it could seperate into halves, that could have sturdy beams which acted as or replaced the standard extentions to bridge the gap. It may be easier to make some kind of gussets for this than expecting telescoping extentions to span that far.
3 drop leaf tables.
how about a 48-54" wide by 84" double pedestle supported rectangle...with the pedestles breaking in the middle of the short sides of rectangle...on the other side of each pedestle the table would continue the length of the radius...this continued length would have the slides attached to top of pedestle to underside of radius top with support legs pivoting close to the radiused apron and when folded up would rest on top of pedestle . either side or both could be extended five or six feet. I,m just doodleing here but it looks doable.
Just doodling out loud here John. What if you made the table and design it so that it stacked. One table on top of the other with the leaf in between. The bottom table could have hollow or notched legs while the table on top had its legs fit into the lower tables legs. Just think of a very basic school type table and how they stack them away. Just a basic idea of course. Peter
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