We’ve been using the Lagun Table we installed 3 months ago and the table has been FANSTASTIC. Being able to move and rotate around has given us a lot more freedom in the main living/dining room area. And for me, I’m at this table for many hours daily working on videos so I’m certainly putting it through the paces.

While the Lagun system itself was great, our original installation did cause some issues.

Table Wobble

Well, this one wasn’t that much of a surprise for us. There’s a bit of weight on this (including me regularly leaning on the table while on the computer). After about 6 weeks, the table seemed to be not as stable as I would have liked. Not “stuff falling off the table” bad, but not perfect either.

Since we had a few rainy days while visiting Sloppy Floyd State Park, we decided to take on this project and see if we can eliminate some of the issue.

Original Installation

If you haven’t seen our first installation video and blog, I’d recommend checking that out first.

In the original installation, we added a wood panel to ensure the baseplate was flush with the dinette base. The problem is that piece of wood was not as secure as we needed it to be.

As typical in RVs, woodwork is typically mounted with simple staples which was the case for the dinette base. When we added the additional potential movement from the table, we put more forces than planned which caused the whole wooden base to move a bit. And because of only using staples, it wasn’t moving with the aluminum frame.

Luckily, we had some spare aluminum strips for another project and Gary re-purposed that to add some rigidity between the wood we added and the wood frame. This would help prevent some of that deflection we were seeing.

Next, Gary added two bolts to secure the wooden frame better to the aluminum frame. Yeah the bolts are a little long, but it wouldn’t hurt anything and you use what you have available!

And to ensure we won’t have to mess with this again, Gary also drilled several screws from the wooden frame into the added piece of wood for the Lagun baseplate. Not sure if this was really needed, but again – it wouldn’t hurt.

We did have to recess these screws in since the cushions would be on top. All in all, the only thing that would be visible were the 2 bolts that we added. And you’d really have to be looking for them to notice.

Table Mount

We originally had the plate that connects to the table offset (not centered) in hopes that it would give us the idea of a side table for the recliner. We do think that offset may have made the above issue worse, so we just re-screwed it back in the center.

With that design, we can still orient the table to put a drink on it with just a *little* bit of stretching. And stretching is good, right?

Conclusion

The table was good before, but with the added modifications above, I expect we’ll be able to use this for a long time now. And not a bad project for a rainy day!