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expired Posted by MarioM29 • Oct 9, 2023
Oct 9, 2023 9:46 PM
Coleman Outdoor Compact Aluminum Folding Camping Table w/ Carry Bag
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*Edit* The complaint about the table not providing leg room underneath due to the supports is valid, but I can't complain as it folds up like a camping chair.
I kept it anyway, since it's otherwise great and light weight. But if I could do it again, I'd choose something different.
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*Edit* The complaint about the table not providing leg room underneath due to the supports is valid, but I can't complain as it folds up like a camping chair.
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I kept it anyway, since it's otherwise great and light weight. But if I could do it again, I'd choose something different.
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I kept it anyway, since it's otherwise great and light weight. But if I could do it again, I'd choose something different.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Engineered by People who Hate You
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2023
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So there was that one year where sales weren't so great, and the Coleman engineering group found out they weren't getting those bonuses. This was unfortunately the same day they were asked to design a new portable folding table for camping, and this absolute pain of a thing was born out of pure spite for their employer. That's probably not true, but it makes me feel better about me wasting $26.
Want to know why it's down to $26 now? Because it's an absolute joke of a portable table. Let's ask ourselves what a portable folding table should be, shall we?
1. Absolute minimum parts. We've almost mastered entire 10x10 collapsible tent shelters to only a single collapsible frame with a cover, and you can set one of those up faster than this table. Not only is it 4 parts (frame, 2 support bars for the table, and the tabletop which needs support bars because without them it's an aluminum accordion strung together with rubber bands). So, we've failed step 1 right out of the gate.
2. Stable - Mildly at best. The frame is collapsible in that between each leg are 2 aluminum crossmembers pinned in the middle allowing them to to all fold together. However, these crossmembers are paper thin. If this thing gets bumped wrong, tipped, or falls victim to a stiff breeze, those once-collapsible crossmembers are going to laugh at ever doing so again. You know how a strong wind bends one of those 10x10 tent frames and it will then no longer collapse correctly? Imagine that implementation but with aluminum you can just push on and bend. Also, there's no locking mechanism on the frame once you've expanded it fully. There is a screw in each leg that is basically your indicator that it is fully expanded when the paper-thin aluminum rods push their plastic bracket up that far. Of course, if that screw comes out, it could just keep on going.
3. Solid surface - HAHAHA. Remember the aluminum accordion top? Yeah - all those slats are held together by 4 long rubber bands connecting them, and while yes that allows it to fold easily, there's also no real mechanism to lock it solid once you make it the tabletop so all those slats can still slide and shift a little while it's a tabletop. You know that sound when you go to grab an aluminum pan and the others shift and it's just aluminum clanging all together? That's the sound of this tabletop as the slats move.
4. Those support bars for the tabletop? Yeah - they have plastic end caps that go into mount holes on the bottom of each end of the tabletop. (Hence the rubber bands so it can stretch to go over those ends). Then they have a hole where they snap to the table frame. But they're round, so you'd think someone on the engineering of this would go - "Hey, since these are round but need to have a specific hole facing down to mount correctly, let's make the end caps with a notch so they only go in one way and then you'll know the holes that mount to the table stay in a down position." But no, they didn't do that. That made the mounts circles as well, so these little support bars can spin however they want. Which means you've got to get down under the tabletop while trying to line up these 4 holes (2 on each end) and snap them on to an aluminum frame that also flexes at will.
Mounts - All those mounts? Yeah, they're plastic. and the little piece that goes up into the aluminum hole in the support bar? Yep, plastic. So guess what will happen when that little tiny piece of plastic breaks? Your support bars will be able to slide however on the frame. And the plastic mounts the bars fit into? Yep, same size as the bar, so absent those 4 little tiny plastic tabs, it could slide straight off the frame.
But it's still useful and seats 4, right? 4 toddlers perhaps. 4 adults sitting around this will feel like each person having 3 dentists getting ready to give an exam. This might be the first table that will let you bump elbows with someone sitting across from you. With as shifty as this thing is, imagine 4 people with plates, cutting food, where every stroke is wildly shifting the table, and your cup of coffee is on there splattering everywhere from all the shaking.
Well, at least we could just play some cards on it - oh wait, bad idea. All those slats leave gaping holes every 3 inches so your cards or game money or much of anything else small except maybe checkers or chess pieces and slip through.
Well at least it's not just falling apart right out of the box! Oh wait, wrong again. Remember our accordion? Yeah, each of those 12 slats has little plastic inserts at either end, totalling 24 little inserts that just pop out randomly. Just read the other reviews about people super gluing them in. Imagine you just bought a brand new camping table and you need to superglue 24 of it's parts in place to keep it together.
And you know how most of your camp chairs are a little lower than regular chairs? Yeah, no height adjustment on this table. You'll be feeling like you're at the little kids table in your camp chair.
WELL AT LEAST YOU GOT A GREAT DEAL AT $26! I feel robbed at Amazon-point of $26. Taking it back apart was literally the last thing I wanted to do, and I never want to put it back up again. I keep it as a sort of visual punishment to remind me to not just see a good price point and click to Buy it Now.
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