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07-16-2015, 08:30 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 238
M.O.C. #9976
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Removing Dining Table
We are full-timers with a 2010 3585SA and the single-pedestal swivel dining table. There is no desk in this model. I may be needing an ergonomic workstation and the only option for us may be to remove the dining table and put something in its place, i.e. computer station.
Has anyone removed their dining table? It's lovely but looking like it just is not going to be a practical fixture in our rig for the direction our life is going.
I'm wondering if there is any impact on weight distribution? This thing's heavy! We replaced the heavy (useless and uncomfortable) sleeper sofa on the same side with a lighter-weight daybed arrangement a couple of years ago.
Cheers,
Betty
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07-17-2015, 01:26 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Hixson
Posts: 3,436
M.O.C. #11397
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Do you plan to give up the eating habit?
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07-17-2015, 01:38 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Hanover
Posts: 1,471
M.O.C. #13325
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Ours isn't fastened down at all. Only thing holding it in place is it's weight and (when the slide is in) the galley sink cabinet. Matter of fact, the couch wasn't fastened down either. Nothing on that slide was.
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07-17-2015, 02:06 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Lake Gaston
Posts: 8,773
M.O.C. #12156
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Comes out very easy. Ours is held by four screws thru the pedestal to the floor.
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07-17-2015, 02:18 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Frostproof, FL USA
Posts: 2,362
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We would probably never take ours out due to resale. However I can never recall sitting at it to eat or do anything else. We eat while sitting in our recliners. It is a nice place to set stuff on for us.
I suspect it would not have any negative effect by reducing the weight on that that side.
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07-17-2015, 03:23 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Portland
Posts: 1,107
M.O.C. #8045
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We took ours out and I put my recliner in that space, love the extra room. We have the 3000RK.
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07-17-2015, 03:24 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Wilsey
Posts: 18,799
M.O.C. #11455
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We kept our table and since we seldom have folks sleep over dumped our sofa and put a desk in there. When we do have kids come to visit we use a blow up queen bed from Cabela's that we put in the middle of the livingroom floor. They get a good nights sleep and we have a livingroom with everything we need.
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07-17-2015, 03:32 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Portland
Posts: 1,107
M.O.C. #8045
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We took ours out and I put my recliner in that space, love the extra room. We have the 3000RK.
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07-17-2015, 03:46 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Aguanga
Posts: 606
M.O.C. #13601
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Wife needed a craft/work desk so we turned ours around 45 degrees. Much longer and more usable in that config for a desk.
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07-17-2015, 03:58 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Ridgeville
Posts: 20,229
M.O.C. #2839
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We have a desk in the 3402 it was requirement as we do most everything on the P.C. We use our dinning table to eat.
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07-17-2015, 04:53 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: _
Posts: 5,238
M.O.C. #6337
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Just took ours out. I wrote about it here.
Gone is the Table.
Nope, not concerned about resale value. OEM couch long gone, OEM recliner ditto. Dining chairs, two left 12 years ago, we were down to one and it is now gone too. I am not saving OEM stuff for someone who might be interested in buying Tana when ever we give her up. Selfish me, it's all about my comfort these days.
This is end result, if you want to see the process, click through to the web page.
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07-17-2015, 09:26 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Ogden
Posts: 638
M.O.C. #13862
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I actually like and use our dinette. Call me "old fashioned" but I still believe in sitting at a table for meals. We seldom eat in front a TV. We snack there, but we don't eat a meal there. Nor do I sleep there in my recliner. That's what my bed is for! But, heck that's just me.
I can see getting rid of a dinette if you don't use one. It's weight and space used for nothing.
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07-18-2015, 03:14 AM
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Established Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Madison
Posts: 40
M.O.C. #9071
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Betty, We have the 3585sa. Removed the table and chairs five years ago.
We never used it. Just collected junk. Put a cabinet in its place for
more storage.
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07-18-2015, 05:37 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lake Havasu City AZ.
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We eat at the table also. It's more conductive (maybe wrong word?) to talking to DW. You know how was your day? What did I do to piss you off and how much will it cost me to make it right.
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07-18-2015, 06:03 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
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Quote:
quote:Originally posted by waynemoore
We eat at the table also. It's more conductive (maybe wrong word?) to talking to DW. You know how was your day? What did I do to piss you off and how much will it cost me to make it right.
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I understand. Universal table talk!
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07-18-2015, 09:22 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Northport
Posts: 439
M.O.C. #12726
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We eat at our table also and would not remove it. Also play games there. To each his own. Just do whatever works for you.
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07-18-2015, 10:08 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pahrump
Posts: 2,523
M.O.C. #1081
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Mrs. CountryGuy: That new cabinet looks really nice, excellent job!
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07-18-2015, 12:14 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: _
Posts: 5,238
M.O.C. #6337
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Why thank you PackerFan.
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07-18-2015, 06:41 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Winnipeg
Posts: 210
M.O.C. #14048
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Haven't eaten at the table yet. Either outside or on the recliners. Table has become a collection point for all sorts of stuff, not sure where we would put if table wasn't there. replacing it with a cabinet of some sort would probably be a good idea. Only take 2 chairs with us and keep dog kennel under one side of the table.
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07-19-2015, 04:39 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 238
M.O.C. #9976
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Thanks for all the responses! I have scored a couple of pieces of furniture and an ergonomic chair which should fit nicely into the space where the dining table currently sits.
The table is lovely, but I'm really more in need of a workstation area at this point, so it will be heading out the door in the near future.
Life changes, and we adapt.
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