First, a little update on making and selling welding tables. The update is that I have no more welding tables for sale, because all the ones that I made, have sold. I need to make more soon.
Second, I have approximately a dozen of huge "blind pipe flanges", weighing about 3,000 lbs total. They look like this, but more rusted and with mill scale:
The flanges I have are around 20 inches in diameter and 1.5-2 inches thick. Weighing 250 lbs or so. Really huge. I wanted to use them to make tabletops for round "blacksmith tables", by welding legs underneath them. As for the holes around the circumference, I would say in the ad "convenient holes are provided for hanging blacksmith tongs".
Based on my experience with wannabe and experienced blacksmiths, people will go gaga over these tables and will buy them, and will be happy forever. It is hard to find a round small table with a 2 inch thick top. What I want to understand better is details.
I have two questions. The first is how many legs to provide, 3 or 4?
Second question, is how to weld legs. I can either weld them exactly perpendicular to the flanges (vertical), or slightly inclined, kind of like on most bar stools. Inclined legs would provide more support area, obviously, but it is harder to align them properly. The only way to do it nicely would be to make a custom jig.
Anyone with any experience in that sort of thing?