My welding table is a 1100# scissors table from Harbor Freight with its top
lined with firebrick, permanently glued down. A nice wood top fits over the
firebrick for normal use as a lift table. A supply of additional firebricks
serves as building blocks for the occasional "furnace" built on top of the
firebrick base.

Bob Swinney
"Leo Lichtman" wrote in message
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"GregL" wrote: In several of the welding books I have it says you need
to insulate your work from the steel plate (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you are using a heavy plate, and clamping the job to it for
alignment/support, this can be true. On the other hand, if you can put a
couple of spacers behind the work, so it is not in firm thermal contact
with the plate, the problem is very slight to nil. If your work is
resting on fire bricks, you are not clamping it down, anyway.

Another solution I sometimes use, where clamping is necessary, is to use
TWO plates with a gap between them, and position the weld over the gap.
Each project has its own solution, and you have to be willing to try
different things.