TheSamba.com :: View topic - SO-42 Westy table floor screw thingy

Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:54 am

The table leg on my Westy has no lower fixing and it just sits on the floor. The amount of times I've swung around, hit the leg and caused the table contents to spill on the floor has finally gotten to be beyond a joke.

The base of the leg has a thread that's clearly meant to screw into a floor mount

Is it possible to find a replacement part?

Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:53 pm

put up a wanted ad in the classifieds. they show up from time to time. i think a early bay one will work also.

Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:31 pm

Had the same problem with my EZ Camper. Drilled a hole slightly smaller than the OD of the leg and it threaded right in to the wood. Very solid. Someday I will recess a fender washer or something around the hole.

Will

Wed Jul 04, 2007 8:50 pm

Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:56 pm

Crofty,
is that deep enough to accommodate the thread on the leg?

Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:22 am

Dwayne Pipe wrote: Crofty,
is that deep enough to accommodate the thread on the leg?

That's the stock item. There's a hole in the wood flooring just under where it mounts.

Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:24 am

I'm looking for one of these plates...
If anyone knows of one left in this world please let me know...

thanks

Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:30 am

same as early Bay Westy.

Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:49 am

Clara wrote: same as early Bay Westy.

cris torlasco said once to me that bay plate had minor diferences. The most important is that you cannot screw the table leg in... I don't know if it's true...

Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:52 am

crofty wrote: did so-23 westy have those as well? i doubt it but they were in my box of westy parts that went with the 60 westy.
the baby poop westy brown color is on that plate which matches rest of my interior color????!

Fri Jul 06, 2007 12:26 pm

xavi_242 wrote: Clara wrote: same as early Bay Westy.

cris torlasco said once to me that bay plate had minor diferences. The most important is that you cannot screw the table leg in... I don't know if it's true...
There may be cosmetic differences.
However, I did pull one out of a Bay Westy SO-69 and installed it in the '65 SO-42 I had. The table leg screwed in fine.

hmmm...
Splitty Campmobile parts list say: 231 067 805
Bay Campmobile parts list say: 231 067 805

Same part number.

Sun Jul 08, 2007 10:22 pm

Jimmie my SO-23 has this fitting on the floor board and as Mink said there was a hole drilled into the plywood to accomodate the threaded tip of the table leg below the fitting.
I was never aware of a water tank in the SO-23 so someone tell me, where was that located?
thnx

Sun Jul 08, 2007 11:32 pm

Clara wrote:
hmmm...
Splitty Campmobile parts list say: 231 067 805
Bay Campmobile parts list say: 231 067 805

Same part number.

then you should be right

Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:02 pm

Sorry my bad. My kit is a SO-22. My SO-22 has the floor thingy however in Adam Beefcake Bruno's picture
http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/344107
there IS NOT one showing on the floor of his 22
go figure, different years... ???

Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:42 pm

I am resurrecting this old thread because of a new problem I am having with my table.
When I restored the bus, I stupidly failed to notice that the table leg has got to be able to rotate in order for it to be screwed down into the lug on the floor. Mine was rusty due to window leaks; I just stripped it and painted it (the table end, with the pivot) but didn't put two and two together and note that it was NOT rotating. I cannot free it, cannot make it rotate.

So tonight I took the pivot end entirely apart, thinking I might be able to cut a slot in the upper part of the leg, get some Kroil in there and get it freed with the help of the bench vise. No go. In fact I can't even figger out how it goes together.

This leg has real nice vinyl covering it so I would like to save it, but I'm just about at my wits end. Can anyone tell me how it comes apart, or how it was originally constructed? I cannot believe this thing won't move--I've cut a slot in it 5mm deep the full length of the thing, gone at it with vise grips and a big bench vise and still nothing. I can't use heat because of that vinyl covering.

HELP!

Thanks.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:19 am

Major Woody I just did this a few months ago. How'd you get that off? Cut the weld? The part where your pliers chawed at the neck is pressed small at the factory. You have to soak it for days and days. It doesn't ever come apart. Yours might be rat-*#"ked. With the slot you cut it might help but if you ever do free it then put a clamp around it if your table is going to see weighty use. I'd hit the pole on the other end once or twice each day for 2 weeks and add a drip of liquid wrench. Then using my hands on the vinyl grippy part it finally started to twist/rock about 1/16th inch then bigger each day. The trick is to never let it seize. After I got it to turn real nice I cleaned it with coleman fuel then oiled it. That vinyl will twist and look real psychedelic if you're too aggressive. The only way to straighten it is hot sun and patience, I found. Maybe a hair dryer would work on the vinyl but that's a whole different problem. Good luck.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:34 am

Major Woody wrote: Mine was rusty due to window leaks; I just stripped it and painted it (the table end, with the pivot) but didn't put two and two together and note that it was NOT rotating. I cannot free it, cannot make it rotate.

My '66 has the exact same issue. Might as well be welded together. I've used Kroil etc to no avail. I'll be watching.

Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:41 am

Good luck woody. I have two and neither of them will rotate.

I cut some of my ribbed plastic back to try and work out what is going on.

In your pic right at the top of the ribbed plastic there is a groove. I think that is how they are assembled.

There is a stub with a groove that mounts to the table hinge. The leg slides over the stub and has a circular groove pressed in to retain it.

As you have already worked out it is rusted in place. Dont know how to free it up!

Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:48 am

Here I thought I was the only one with this issue!! I've been spraying Kroil on it for 3 months and it still wont budge, maybe I will fill a small container of Kroil and submerge it, maybe that will do the trick!! Limited choices to loosen when you have that vinyl coating to deal with. Post up some remedies if you get yours loosened. In the mean time I will keep my plate of food on my lap. :lol: :lol:

Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:54 am

joe comfort wrote: Here I thought I was the only one with this issue!! I've been spraying Kroil on it for 3 months and it still wont budge, maybe I will fill a small container of Kroil and submerge it, maybe that will do the trick!! Limited choices to loosen when you have that vinyl coating to deal with. Post up some remedies if you get yours loosened. In the mean time I will keep my plate of food on my lap. :lol: :lol:

When did you acquire a table??