--- Mark Hooper <mhooper@digiscreen.ca> wrote:
> Sorry for the non-LBC post, but this list is quite
> knowlegable on obscure
> affairs so I thought I'd give it a go. I seized hold
> of a mahogany dining room
> set when an aged relative was fumbling with her
> oxygen bottle and not looking.
> It's got a nice double-pedestal table. Having
> disassembled the table in the
> dark and scuttled out quickly I wasn't looking at
> the before-side for long.
> Now that re-assembly time comes, I'm left wondering.
> This is the type with 3
> feet on each pedestal. Do the toes point out or
> together? i.e do you have a
> single foot pointing out from each end, or toward
> each other in the middle?
> I'm pretty certain they point together, but this
> table (type that stretches
> out to half a block long with slip in leaves in the
> middle) seems to permit
> either configuration.
>
> Mark
> 1972 TR6 (with definitely too much toe-in)
Mark,
Toe-in allows side chairs to fit nearly snug against
the table w/o interference on our v. similar vintage
table (acquired under amazingly similar nefarious
circumstances).
Consider the chairs when thinking of legs.
Charlie
Vintage Mahagony table w/a castor problem (legs tuned
w/original toe-in)
Various Triumphs
Various Formula 500's
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