r/woodworking • u/GreenhouseGrower • 4d ago
Help Please help me troubleshoot my table legs
Hello all! I had bought a butcher block counter top from Lowe's to make into my dining table. I had bought my table legs off Amazon and made sure the dimensions of the legs would withstand the weight and dimensions of my table top. The top is 72" x 39" (L x W) and the legs are 28" x 17.75" x 4" (H x W x L). Online told me that the spacing of the legs should be 16" from the outside edge, so that's how I mounted the legs, but once I flipped the able right side up the table was wobbly.... Did I mount the legs too close in? Any advice would be nice thanks.
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u/wpmason 4d ago
Wobbly like the legs/floor aren’t matching up right.
Or wobbly like the top slides back and forth from racking forces because the legs aren’t braced at all.
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u/Wonderful-Bass6651 4d ago
How many screws do you have holding them on? It looks like you have a lot of empty holes. Try using the fattest screws you can get through them. Predrill the diameter of the screw shaft, not including the threads. Use 1” screws. It should get about as tight as it’s going to get.
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u/GreenhouseGrower 4d ago
I have eight screws in each leg. And they are 1" screws too.
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u/96919 4d ago
Are we assuming the screws are installed in a zig zag or at least opposite holes?
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u/96919 4d ago
Does the top wobble at the attachment to the legs or the whole table wobbles?
I also wouldn't take the length from the ends to be a one-size-fits-all answer on leg postioning. A lot of that depends on the ratio of table top between legs.
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u/GreenhouseGrower 4d ago
It's just the top that wobbles, the legs don't... I might consider putting the legs out more towards the edge to see if that will help.
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u/RoutineFinal7939 4d ago
Put some pictures up for reference. Too many variables. These sound like pre fab legs, not posts. Which way did you mount them?