Help with a Stuck Dinette Top

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LuBell

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For days I have used a lubricant to undo the dinette table top from its legs. It hasn't worked. I am about to go get a hydrolic jack and some two by fours to even out the upward force but not if somebody thinks that it would destroy the table. Any ideas on how to unstick this thing.
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WOW!
When ours get's stuck I have one of my boys hold up the table top (sideways) while I simultaneously wiggle and turn the leg. It has always separated (sometimes after working it) but your's sounds like a real buggar if you've resorted to lubrication (and hydraulics). I remember only 1 time when I literally turned the table upside down on the floor, stood on it, and performed the same ritual to release it. Not sure of your table design without a pic so I'll ask a stupid question - can you unscrew the leg holder from the table and get at it from the top side?
 
First I take it that this is in your 3257 Montego?
If so, You need to rock the table back and forth from seat to seat. That will pop it out from the base. Once it is out of the base. Turn the table top upside down. Use some lubricant like WD-40. Let it sit. Then rock the legs back and forth and pull. This should free them. I recall doing this the first time I had trouble with my table on my Carver Montego. The problem is that the chrome legs have rusted and are stuck in the aluminum or chrome base.
 
This sounds crazy but it will work. Get a can of compressed air, the kind you clean a computer with. Tip the can of air upside down and spray the metal leg. The air will "freeze" the leg and it will contract. You should be able to wiggle it out at this point.

Jim
 
Thanks Bob, Jim and Hubby for helping out. After wiggling and spraying compressed air, to no avail, I decided to unscrewed the brackets from the floor and table to actually see what was going on. Not so stupid a question, Hubby. What I found was that there is a plastic sleeve that covers the ends of the metal leg which prevented the compressed air from working. It is also probably there to prevent rusting. (A nice sign of Carver integrity) Plus, the part of the bracket that holds the leg is tapered. So the further you press down on the table top the tighter it gets. You're right Bob, this is the 3257 I just got. So after years of that dinette not being converted (according to the seller), you could wiggle until you were dancing the Twist trying to get it off and wouldn't nothin' be movin' but your own rear end. So what I did after I lubed everything was put a piece of wood inside the recessed bracket between the end of the leg and the table so that the bracket can only go so far. No more dancing. Thanks guys.
 
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