Since I am fresh out of mods, the latest being my glide out shelves which are AWESOME!!!!, I am ready to take on the weak, useless, unstable and undesirable folding table. I would love to leave the thing up during travel and figured converting it to the tube style leg would work. Has anyone done this and how difficult is it. If I can design, make and install 4 glide out shelves, I'm think'in this is a no brainer!! LOL LOL (I really think I am all that and a bag of chips ha??) Any suggestions would be great!!
Just mount a a socket (or pair of sockets) to the bottom of the table and matching sockets to the floor.
While this may look more high end RV. I won't do this on our trailer for many reasons.
(1) We store things under the table during transit including the outdoor grill. Posts will prevent access. (2) Posts will interfere with getting our legs underneath and a single pole is no less wobbly than the folding legs. (3) We move our table frequently. Just opening the double hung window sometimes requires this. Or we move the table outdoors as a serving table for larger dinners. (4) I'm convinced that road vibration will pull the screws out of a pedestal mount, especially out of the floor if it's not thru-bolted. (5) Our more porcine friends can damage the mountings squeezing in too.
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if you're going to do a mod, might as well go all the way. Could you put in a TELESCOPIC leg, so you can put it down in case you need to use the dinette as a bed, and raise it up to eating height when needed?
hmmmmm. now that would be a mod.
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You can purchase the tubes and holders at an rv dealership or possibly Camping world. The holders come with either 6 or 8 holes for screws. My table has six.
The tubes come in two different heigths.
Peresonally, I would stay with the folding table. While I can leave this table set up when travelling, I don't believe that you will find it any more sturdy than what you have. Jayco has finally given up on this design and gone to a folding leg table.
I had the same tube design in my 1990 Jayco Popup.
It has a tendency to lean if you put weight on one side unless you really get the tubes in tight and then it is a bit difficult to break down.
I haven't found the tubes to be a problem when sliding in to sit down or opening a window.
I have not experienced any problem with the screws coming out of the floor in either trailer.
Even with the posts, you can still store items under the table if need be while it is set up or set in the bed position although you will not have a flat floor because of the holders.
By the way, those holders are not metal but a heavy plastic.
Our 03 Kiwi had the folding leg table and that gave more versitility than the tube one.
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Our HTT has 2 dinettes.
One has a folding table and the other has the tube style pedestal.
The pedestal looks nice and you have lots of leg room, but it does wobble unless you are able to brace it aginst the wall. We are unable to brace ours because it retracts down to a bed. The pedestal has survived 2 small kids that think it is a trampeline and the metal mounting rings have never came loose.
You can find nice solid tube style pedestals at IKEA.
Ripoff-World will probaly be out of it anyway!
However if I only had one dinette I would stay with the folding style table. I find it to be more user friendly and sturdier. I can move it around, take it outside, store more items under it while traveling and the kids don't think it's a toy.
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and the metal mounting rings have never came loose. 
