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Mity-Lite Folding Tables
Technical Details

Lightness: A 6ft table weighs just 39.6 lbs. That is easy to handle for most men, but might be slightly too heavy for most women.

Strength: The Mity-Lite table can take1320+lbs without a problem. That is the equivalent of 8 eleven stone adults. That will allow you to use if for anything without a worry.
The strength comes from an internal wood frame with two "unidirectional plywood" runners. These are a special plywood made with all the fibres running longitudinally along the length of the beam. This gives an unmatched strength for weight ratio of any folding table.

Durability: The Mity-Lite top is built in High Impact ABS plastic. This can absorb the energy of the normal daily impacts that a folding table gets. You can drop the table straight onto its corner from knee height, without causing significant damage.
The legs are riveted together (rather than welded) and are then bolted into the interior wood frame of the top. This makes it impossible to rip them away from the top.

Folding Leg Mechanism: To set the legs you just snap them out from under the table in a single action. The safety lock then drops into place under gravity when you put the table on its feet. (NB. I strongly recommend you not to buy a table without a safety lock or one that has to be applied manually).

Pictureof the folsing leg mechanism
To fold the table, you lay it on its side, move the safety locking ring up the arm of the mechanism, push the frame of the mechanism anywhere on either arm to slightly "break" the straighten position, and then swing the leg into the table.
I do not know of a simpler, quicker or more reliable system than this on the market.

Lips, Cracks and seams: The top surface of the Mity-Lite table is made from a sheet of ABS plastic, vacuum formed so that the edges roll over without any seam at all. This makes them far easier to clean and more comfortable to use.

A Cutaway Section of the Mity-Lite Table

Finishes:

The basic colours are beige, brown and grey. These finishes have a dimpled texture to the surface to reduce the visual effect of scratches.

We can offer some smooth surfaced speckled finishes. These give you maximum durability and appearance for a small premium.

Finally, you can choose one of our two woodgrain finishes. These are achieved using a smooth veneer of patterned plastic, co-extruded with the base ABS plastic. It should be noted that while with the other finishes a deep scratch will only dig through to the same plastic, with one of these wood effect tables, the scratch will go through the veneer to a different substrate. For that reason we do not recommend them for very high wear environments.