Thank you for going to the trouble and finding that information I'll give
them a look. It's occurring to me that it might be easier to make this a 10
per table that expands to a 14.

PAUL KETTERER wrote:
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.