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Originally Posted by White Cloud
The edges of the table top ride on two rails when used as the bed filler -- one rail each mounted to the boxes that house the load center and the multiplex center across the aisle from one another.
The problem is that the table top is a lightweight foam-core covered with laminate, and when it bears weight spanning that aisle, it flexes.
The extra pedestal I am considering would add support in the center of the table top halfway across the aisle to eliminate the flexing.
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I'm guessing that the table top was designed for just that - of light weight material to support loads typically impressed on a table top. But used as a fill-in support, it involves substantially greater load moments, {particularly in the longer fore and aft dimension) when clambering in and out of bed. I don't think foam-core construction is up to forces involved and I also doubt that the screws that fasten the pedestal have sufficient gripping power in that material.
I would follow BBQs suggestion to address this with WGO prior to correcting this yourself.
FWIW, your issue isn't unique to your coach. I suspect that it's a problem for other coaches also. Our 210 uses a plywood fill-in (which I think should be
pro forma for this), but even so it tends to wobble and shift around particularly when getting in and out of bed because it just sits on the rails but isn't captured by them. It works, though not as well as it should, but at least, as in your situation, it doesn't fail.