Question by Alya: Can’t Open Antique Dining Room Table Extension?
We have an Krug Bros dining table circa 1930. The table has a leaf, but we aren’t able to open up the table top i.e. separate the two halves. Something is stuck. I’ve tried using WD-40 on the metal rod that seems to be joining both pieces of the table top, but that hasn’t done it. There are also two wood “joiners” or sliders, it looks as though when the two halves of the table separate that this tongue and groove siding has something to do with it.
Does anybody know what might cause an extension table to stick like this? What should I look for? Help, please!
Answer:
Have you totally turned the table over, or are you just looking at it by crawling under it? Tip the table complety over and check very closley to see if anyone, over time, nailed a small nail or two into an area that may not be very visible. That was common years ago so that kids wouldn’t accidently pull them apart at dinner time. From what you’ve said it sounds like either there is a small nail or two or something was jammed into place so that the table did’nt accidently become pulled apart at the wrong moment. Good Luck!
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