Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
Reply |
|
LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
here is my welding table
I was asked to show my welding table by an e-mail so I thought I would list
it tonight on metalworkers web for everyone to see. Here it is: http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table.txt http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_1.JPG http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_2.JPG I hope this helps Don D. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Don D. wrote:
I was asked to show my welding table by an e-mail so I thought I would list it tonight on metalworkers web for everyone to see. Here it is: http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table.txt http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_1.JPG http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_2.JPG I hope this helps Don D. Too pretty. My welding table is composed of 80% stuff I dragged out of the former owners' scrap pile and the rest bought for the pound at the local steel surplus. I would have been able to make it out of 100% scrap except that I hadn't yet found the dead boat trailer in the back 40 when I made it. The only deficiency at the moment is that I haven't yet bolted it to the wall for those times when I need to really whack something hard in the vice. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
It may be too pretty to you but it was cheep to build. The 1/4 plate was cut
out of a 36" X 48" that was out of the scrap yard all grimed and weld cuts and total greasy. It looked like it was a base from a work table that they torched into sheets. I have a lot of grinding to the top to remove all the torching from separating everything.. I bought 2 plates for $70.00, so that piece cost about $12 - $15.00, a set of wheels for $8.00, 1 20' 1.5 angle $17.00, and 1.25 flat for $12.00??? and a few grinding wheels The Sq tubing was a FREEBEE 2 days work just tinkering I have a 1/2 hp motor bolted on it now with a 8" stiff wire wheel until I can get a station built for the wire wheel and the belt sander. I have it drilled for a large vise also... I can say it is not pretty now, it is getting a work out every weekend and some nights. Don D. "Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... Don D. wrote: I was asked to show my welding table by an e-mail so I thought I would list it tonight on metalworkers web for everyone to see. Here it is: http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table.txt http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_1.JPG http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_2.JPG I hope this helps Don D. Too pretty. My welding table is composed of 80% stuff I dragged out of the former owners' scrap pile and the rest bought for the pound at the local steel surplus. I would have been able to make it out of 100% scrap except that I hadn't yet found the dead boat trailer in the back 40 when I made it. The only deficiency at the moment is that I haven't yet bolted it to the wall for those times when I need to really whack something hard in the vice. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Same here. I just built a table out of a farm gate that a neighboring
farmer was going to tote to the dump. I cut all the welds and straightened the pieces on the anvil. It looked like it had been run over by a ten ton truck & then trampled by a herd of stampeding buffalo. The material is pre-rusted, so it blends right in with my mossy shop building. Ready made quaintness. G Bugs |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Very nicely designed and built table, Don! OK, I'm inspired; time to
build myself a nice welding table! Thanks, Dave |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
top posting fixed
Don D. wrote: Don D. wrote: I was asked to show my welding table by an e-mail so I thought I would list it tonight on metalworkers web for everyone to see. Here it is: http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table.txt http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_1.JPG http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_2.JPG I hope this helps Don D. Too pretty. My welding table is composed of 80% stuff I dragged out of the former owners' scrap pile and the rest bought for the pound at the local steel surplus. I would have been able to make it out of 100% scrap except that I hadn't yet found the dead boat trailer in the back 40 when I made it. The only deficiency at the moment is that I haven't yet bolted it to the wall for those times when I need to really whack something hard in the vice. It may be too pretty to you but it was cheep to build. The 1/4 plate was cut out of a 36" X 48" that was out of the scrap yard all grimed and weld cuts and total greasy. It looked like it was a base from a work table that they torched into sheets. I have a lot of grinding to the top to remove all the torching from separating everything.. I bought 2 plates for $70.00, so that piece cost about $12 - $15.00, a set of wheels for $8.00, 1 20' 1.5 angle $17.00, and 1.25 flat for $12.00??? and a few grinding wheels The Sq tubing was a FREEBEE 2 days work just tinkering I have a 1/2 hp motor bolted on it now with a 8" stiff wire wheel until I can get a station built for the wire wheel and the belt sander. I have it drilled for a large vise also... I can say it is not pretty now, it is getting a work out every weekend and some nights. Don D. Actually I was responding out of spite and jealousy -- my table doesn't have the natty cutting area off to one side, although I suppose I could add it. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Tim and others.
I do thank you for the positive response. I have scanned the web and looked through a lot of books I bought to get ideas to work off and scanning the scrap yards up to 50 miles away on my days out of town doing my job. I found the 1/4" plates 50 miles away... I am still going to get the last one just for ****s and giggles, for that price I can't go wrong. The book that I found the table in is WELDING Basics by www.creativepub.com I made it a little bigger and made the slates removable, then added the wheels, handle and a gun holder. I am going to add a drawer for the everyday tools needed and a slag catcher pan. I can tell you, that book has a lot of small things to make with diagrams. Not bad to a tinkerer. We like candles and there are a lot of candle holders in that to make. SORRY, I like to tinker and my expense to make it easier for me.. Again, Thanks for the encouragement. I just thought I would share what I learned and made for others to work off like I did.. Don D. "Tim Wescott" wrote in message ... top posting fixed Don D. wrote: Don D. wrote: I was asked to show my welding table by an e-mail so I thought I would list it tonight on metalworkers web for everyone to see. Here it is: http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table.txt http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_1.JPG http://www.metalworking.com/dropbox/welding_table_2.JPG I hope this helps Don D. Too pretty. My welding table is composed of 80% stuff I dragged out of the former owners' scrap pile and the rest bought for the pound at the local steel surplus. I would have been able to make it out of 100% scrap except that I hadn't yet found the dead boat trailer in the back 40 when I made it. The only deficiency at the moment is that I haven't yet bolted it to the wall for those times when I need to really whack something hard in the vice. It may be too pretty to you but it was cheep to build. The 1/4 plate was cut out of a 36" X 48" that was out of the scrap yard all grimed and weld cuts and total greasy. It looked like it was a base from a work table that they torched into sheets. I have a lot of grinding to the top to remove all the torching from separating everything.. I bought 2 plates for $70.00, so that piece cost about $12 - $15.00, a set of wheels for $8.00, 1 20' 1.5 angle $17.00, and 1.25 flat for $12.00??? and a few grinding wheels The Sq tubing was a FREEBEE 2 days work just tinkering I have a 1/2 hp motor bolted on it now with a 8" stiff wire wheel until I can get a station built for the wire wheel and the belt sander. I have it drilled for a large vise also... I can say it is not pretty now, it is getting a work out every weekend and some nights. Don D. Actually I was responding out of spite and jealousy -- my table doesn't have the natty cutting area off to one side, although I suppose I could add it. -- Tim Wescott Wescott Design Services http://www.wescottdesign.com |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
router/outfeed table; previously charted territory? | Woodworking | |||
welding table | Metalworking | |||
General International Table Saw Dimensions | Woodworking | |||
Jet table saw table out of tolerance | Woodworking | |||
Building an extension table. | Woodworking |