The table beneath the bed collapsed! (And other musings)

BirdieJane

We found it at Joanns Fabric 

Marceline

Michigan_Mike said:

You can configure them to what works best for you.   This has been a very a well researched and discussed topic here on the forum in the past and if you type in bed slats and search it you will find considerable posts and excellent info on this subject.  My bed slats are very similar to these.  I bought a flat bungy style cord at Home depot, stapled it to the bottom of my slats and this allows me to fold them up accordion style and store them in my bench seat on the driver's side when not in use.  

Hi - I understand that people have made bed slats themselves out of various kinds of wood. I'm asking specifically if there is any downside to simply taking the 2 boards that came with trailer (they look like MDF + corian or similar to match the table) and ripping them into 4 boards. 

Sharon_is_SAM

Marcelinem, if you don't like storing all of them, you can leave 1 or 2 in place at the rear of the benches, place the other 2 boards either under or behind your bench cushions, remove your table and use a smaller fold up table - much easier.

ScottG

@Marceline, from an engineering perspective, four narrow boards will be marginally less strong than two wider boards.

Will they still be strong enough? Probably.

If not, so what? Just replace 'em with something better!

2Cougs

@Marceline - Remember that here on the forum we are not always comparing apples to apples.  I have a CS-S that MAY be like yours.  We do not have the slat configuration that Mike shows.  IF yours is like mine, the spare 2 pieces fit nicely on top of each other and against the back wall and the table is positioned over it so as to give more room getting in and out under the AC.  I would NEVER get rid of my table... we use it, and it IS the bed

2Cougs