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    Posted: 07 Oct 2010 at 7:37pm
I thought the bungee cords were a great idea and I rigged my table with them.
I have traveled 500 miles with the bungee cords and the table up with NO problems.
I do the same and loosen the front ones to sit at the table.  Plus it gives more room to store
boxes and shoes when moving.
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outbound,

great ides with the bunjee cords

gonna try it this week end in my 172

thanks


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Ratdog,  your installer must have had a major hangover when he put your channel on. I only had 3 that had to be tightened and 4 or 5 that I had to buzz the burrs off of. I hope your installation is going better now. I've gotta admit, I've been lucky. After hearing all the horror stories I was almost afraid to try to put mine up. But the good half prevailed. She wanted to sit in the shade.
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Originally posted by YakDriver YakDriver wrote:

Okie, I love the dome. With a little practice you can get your time down to 10 - 15 minutes. The key is to make sure that all of the mounting screws for the channel are screwed in tight and that there are no burrs on the screw heads. Then use a little wet/dry paper on the leading edges of the channel to get rid of the sharp lip where you feed the dome into the channel. After that, a little silicone spray in the channel and you can put it up without a ladder or step stool. I just feed the dome into the channel, push the male part into the channel while pulling the part that's already in there further down the line.

It's actually more trouble to write about it than to actually do it. The mounting of the dome to the trailer is what most people complain about, but with the few little steps I outlined - it won't be a problem for you.
 
Unless 1/3 of the mounting screws are put in at an angle like they were on mine.
 
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Okie, I love the dome. With a little practice you can get your time down to 10 - 15 minutes. The key is to make sure that all of the mounting screws for the channel are screwed in tight and that there are no burrs on the screw heads. Then use a little wet/dry paper on the leading edges of the channel to get rid of the sharp lip where you feed the dome into the channel. After that, a little silicone spray in the channel and you can put it up without a ladder or step stool. I just feed the dome into the channel, push the male part into the channel while pulling the part that's already in there further down the line.

It's actually more trouble to write about it than to actually do it. The mounting of the dome to the trailer is what most people complain about, but with the few little steps I outlined - it won't be a problem for you.
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yakdriver,

how is that dome working out?

is it easy to put up?

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thanks, I see them at  campingnworld and academt, they are 4ft tables

I was just wondering  because the space where the table rests on the supports
is 28 wide by 29 long.

they run about 19.00 too

looks like its a bit smaller than the original table.

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Chunked the legs off my table last night. Since we spend most of our time outside in the dome, we keep our 171 set up with two beds. I have a nice folding table that we use for meals and one to hold the toaster oven and coffee pot outside. All the pod is used for is potty calls and snoozing. All of our cooking and relaxing is done outside.
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Originally posted by okiecamper okiecamper wrote:

Butterfly_lee,

how big is that folding table?

where did you get it?


I wanna do the same thing, and not use the forrest river table
its too heavy  and  I dont wanna leave it in the standing position.


thanks.


Phil
Phil, I got one at CAMPINGWORLD, in Flagstaff last year don't remember what it cost, brought another one to use outside at ACADEMY Sports here is Corpus Christi.  It was 19.99, don't have the POD with me so I can't measurement, but I can get it for you next week.

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Butterfly_lee,

how big is that folding table?

where did you get it?


I wanna do the same thing, and not use the forrest river table
its too heavy  and  I dont wanna leave it in the standing position.


thanks.


Phil
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