triumphs
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [TR] Non-BLC; Toes in or out?

To: Mark Hooper <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>,
Subject: Re: [TR] Non-BLC; Toes in or out?
From: Charlie Schlismann <racegt6@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:10:13 -0700 (PDT)
--- 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


===  This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register
===     http://www.vtr.org



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>