Mini Table
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This is just a quick little table...
My new Main Salon table will be a major production -- the plans are coming
together. However, most of the time the big table will be folded up and out
of the way, and just
pulled out for entertaining and stuff.
This little table just swings up and is good
for writing or a quick meal,
and can be left up when under way.
Rather than deal with legs, it's suspended from the ceiling with rope. The
little overhand knot on the underside of the table also serves as a nice bumper
to keep it from banging on the cabinet when it's put away!
I took a very old, used shackle from my rigging parts box and spliced the rope onto it. The table just snaps on and off of the eye nuts that are part of the mast collar trim.
It's made of mahogany -- a plank left over
from when I made the main table on
my last boat.
After four years sitting in the garage, it had developed a tiny bit of warp
due to the grain's shape.
I flattened it out with my belt sander, since I don't own a power planer.
It probably won't curl any more, but just in case I epoxied threaded stainless
steel rods in
the underside, and clamped
angle irons across the plank
while the epoxy set.
The rod by the rope also helps to reinforce that area of stress.
(The epoxy is a mix of colloidal silica, fiberglass chop and mahogany sawdust
just for fun.)
The piano hinge is though bolted with crown
nuts on top, and bolted into the cabinet with fender washers on the inside.
I was afraid screws would get ripped out.
The table is set 1/8" away from the cabinet,
so there's play in it. If it gets knocked
it will swing up about 6 inches
before putting leverage on the bolts.
(So it's not the kind of thing you want to set a bowl of soup on in a seaway!)
The nicest thing about this project is that
every part of it
(except the piano hinge and nuts and bolts) was just sitting around
from other projects or in my junk box.
Wow, a little project that only cost 10 bucks!