Folding Cockpit Table fitting (Whitlock/Lewmar) - what's this bit?

[Yngmar]

I'm restoring the cockpit table. Apparently the folding table fitting is a kit from Whitlock (now Lewmar) and the whole set costs a very silly amount indeed. The bit that holds the table up when in use is fine, but there is apparently another bit that is meant to keep the table from flopping around when folded down (currently solved with a bungee cord around the binnacle and table), and there's just a gaping hole in the binnacle where that used to be.

Having never seen it, I have no idea what it looks like. Some research shows the whole kit, but in a very low resolution only, so I can't quite make out how the thing was even supposed to work.

Does anyone have a photo of the bottom fitting? Possibly even a source for the part, although if the part costs a fortune and is just a piece of small shock cord, I can probably cobble something together myself.

 

[prv]

I don't know about your specific kit, but the similar tables I've seen were generally restrained in the down position by a catch a little like this:

(Generally a bit more substantial than that cheapo one I just found on Google, but the same basic idea.)

Pete

 

[rogerthebodger]

My table (home made ) is held down with a big head stud screwed to the underside of the table that firs into a hole in a strip of stainless steel attached to the bottom of the crash bars of my binnacle.

You can just see the attachment strip at the bottom behind the table.

 

[tudorsailor]

I have this folding table. The bit you have circled is fixed to the deck and a short piece of bungy comes out with an adjustable round knob thing. The bungy and knob come up and then wedge into the crack of the two folding pieces and holds it all in place without having bunging going right around the table

I will be back on board on Saturday and can take a photo if you'd like. PM me if you want me to do this

TudorSailor

 

[Yngmar]

Many thanks to TudorSailor for emailing me a photo of his fitting. I've made something similar to his original from a leftover piece of HDPE sheet I had laying around and a plastic wotsit from the "misc. spares" box. Cheers!