The dealer I bought my Watertown table slides from is Moin Hardware Company,
tel: (516)593-7067. Their e-mail is:
. You can see
an example of a table with these slides at:
www.woodcentral.com/shot580.shtml.
To seat 14 people, you could make your table 44" x 80" closed (easily seats
8 with one person on each end), and 120" long when two 20" leaves are
installed (5 people per side and two on each end). The table I made (110"
long open) was designed to seat 12, (4 per side and 2 per end), and has
already been used to seat 9 with room to spare.
"PAUL KETTERER" wrote in message
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Alan,
I recently completed a modified trestle based dining table that measured
44" x 80" and expanded to 110" with 2 15" leaves. I read somewhere about
Watertown steel equalizer table slides, which were supposed to be the best
in terms of not sagging when opened fully. I had a hard time finding
where to buy them, but finally found a hardware supplier in Long Island,
NY and ordered them. The pair I bought open to 56", (more than I needed,
but I wanted the length to make the table sturdy when open). I think
larger sizes are also available. They worked out great, and are truly
sag-free and rigid even when opened fully. Do a Google search for
"Watertown Table Slides" to find the dealer. If you can't find them,
e-mail me and I'll look for my receipt and send you their phone# and
address.
Paul
"Alan Smithee" wrote in message
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Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article Dyz7f.307213$tl2.158103@pd7tw3no,
Alan Smithee wrote:
I need to build a 14 person dining table. The final dimensions will
be 156" by 44" when three additional 24" leaves are put in. When the
table is compacted it will be an 8 person table. It will hopefully
expand as an 8, 10, 12 and 14 person table. (Two people can be
seated across the ends). What is the best way to configure the table
slides? I need the table to open to at least 61 inches so I can fit
the last leaf in. Does someone make slides this big, or do I gang
smaller slides together to achieve this length. Thank you.
First off, you need to re-figure your dimensions -- 3 24" leaves will
not fit in a circa 60" opening. grin
Second, you can seat 14 people at a 44"x 134" table, using 22"
spacing per place setting. (8 at a 44"x68" table.) Depending on the
situation, you _can_ get away with a narrower dimension for the place
setting -- down at about 18" is about the minimum workable seating;
assuming that you have chairs that don't require more space than that.
I once built a D.R. table that was 42"x60" in its minimal form --
seating 6 comfortably -- two down each side, and one at each end. It
expanded with up to 4 drop-in leaves that were each as I recall) 10"
wide. Each leaf effectively added 2 places to the seating capacity
-- seating two people across the end of the table when one had an odd
number of leaves in, but only one person, when there were an even
number of leaves. The math looks screwy (to put it charitably),
however the intended use for the larger capacity was informal family
gatherings, _not_ fancy formal dinners. as such a somewhat 'cosy'
seating was tolerable. And it did work out, we've had 12 at the
table with only 3 leaves in.
Holy Cow! Yes I realize my error now. Thanks. Ouch 72 and change. For
seating I was using numbers suggested by Terrance Conran (The House Book)
as
a mininum of 24" per person and a min of an additional 19" on each of the
ends (which I trimmed to 18"). So I get 156" long or exactly 13 feet. The
max width they recommend is 44" because after that you need to do a Hail
Mary to pass the gravy. I like your idea of calling it a six person when
closed rather than an eight person. I'm going to try ganging two 36 inch
slides together, this should work right? Ganging I mean. Thx.