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Subject: T500/501 Cockpit Table – Revisited Author: Brian Henry [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10/12/04 18:17:26 Back in April I responded to a question on this subject here by recommending searching for a white, plastic, fold-up camping table because I had found such an item and considered it eminently suitable. The bonus was that it was ridiculously cheap. Then I went off cruising for the summer and, as the weeks went by, my conscience was beginning to trouble me – I was finding that the damned table was becoming less and less attractive; it was too small; it wasn’t very stable; the trestle legs took too much space in the small area; the top wasn’t even a flat surface – and I had told everyone how great it was. Time for a re-think. With the onset of winter and back home busy ordering bits and bobs from different on-line chandlers, preparing for the jobs I was planning over the winter, I found just the thing for a new cockpit table. It was a set of parts, aluminium base to be screwed to the cockpit sole, a tube that fits into the base and a socket to be screwed under a table to fit onto the tube. When not in use the table and tube could be disassembled and stored below, leaving just the cockpit sole socket. The only negative point is that as a permanent fixture in the middle of the cockpit sole, it stands proud by 45mm to provide adequate support for the tube, but with sloping sides I judge it to be no great hazard. I already had a 10mm marine ply section of 65mm x 50mm with an edging fiddle from a previous cockpit table where the leg construction had collapsed in the past (my carpentry leaves a lot to be desired, sometimes) and discarded into my cellar – just the job. I have just finished varnishing my new table and believe it has great potential when I get it on board next spring; total cost was less than £30. Parts can be found at Force 4 Chandlery (http://www.force4.co.uk/index.html) – part number 890088 in the miscellaneous section. They sell the bits separately but you’ll save if you buy all three together, as shown by that part number. I hope that I have redeemed myself for that bum tip earlier. Best, Brian. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Re: T500/501 Cockpit Table – Revisited Brian Henry 10/12/04 18:47:45 Re: T500/501 Cockpit Table – Revisited -- Paul Barber, 11/12/04 17:40:32 Re: T500/501 Cockpit Table – Revisited -- Brian Henry, 12/12/04 7:55:38 Re: T500/501 Cockpit Table – Revisited anders 13/12/04 13:05:45 Re: T500/501 Cockpit Table – Revisited anders 13/12/04 13:07:36 Re: T500/501 Cockpit Table – Revisited -- Brian Henry, 13/12/04 15:44:47 Re: T500/501 Cockpit Table – Revisited -- Anders, 14/12/04 10:42:59