Welding Table plans/pictures?

Very true indeed.

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maybe you can use the same table as storage and bench and put it on casters.

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Ignoramus3123

Interesting ideas! Thank you Shaun.

I would like to know how to built a manual rotator! Sometimes I make lampposts etc of two parts with a cone or a flange in between. Any Ideas for that?

Jukkis

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JP Sipponen

See: Text:

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The above table was purpose built to fit onto equipment under repair but, has all the elements of a design that works which you might want to take into consideration when building your welding table, most notably, a lip around the edge of the table top to facilitate clamping work onto the surface. The text file has a detailed write up about the other features of this particular example that may not be intuitively obvious.

The above design was also used to build four larger 24"x48" tables (a

4'x8' sheet of 1/2" steel plate cut into four equal sized pieces). Due to a design where the table top does not overhang the frame, the frames of these four tables can easily be clamped together in various configurations to form a larger work surface, depending on what size and shape of work surface is required for a given project. The tables are on steel casters and are small enough to be easily moved or transported to a job site if necessary.

Perhaps you can pick up some ideas from this.

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Speechless

On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:18:50 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, snipped-for-privacy@nowhere.com (Speechless) quickly quoth:

Both those files appear to be the same, a text file. Wut up wi dat?

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Larry Jaques

One was a text file and the other a jpg/picture.

Perhaps you pressed the wrong one the first time. Martin H. Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net TSRA, Life; NRA LOH & Endowment Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot"s Medal. NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.

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Martin H. Eastburn

I haven't finished mine yet, blaming the usual life's distractions, but we know better.

Anyway, I got a couple heavy truck brake drums, welded some C channel to the top, and to that I welded on some 2" square tubing, with the top about my elbow height. I have the next size up square tubing which fits over it (okay, it doesn't fit so well; I didn't buy the stuff without the ridge inside) and to a piece will be attached a 20" or so diameter piece of 1/2" steel plate. Drill and tap some holes near the edge for work holding, and we'll see how it does. I have some of the larger tubing cut to 3" pieces, welded together at right angles (welded on nuts to secure them to the 2" square tubing wherever you want), with the plan to put little arms that stick out where I want them, and bringing a vertical out at some convenient spot. I can either use one of the added arms to mount a vice, grinder, seat for my butt, or whatever. Sort of a modular system. At this point, I have two posts on the drums, and my vice mounted to the top of one. Life changed, so did my ability to finish them shortly after I started. Holds my vice really well, with the heavy base the next best thing to being mounted on my workbench, but with more access and function (just not the weight capacity, unfortunately, but I couldn't put a breaker bar on my workbench either) I plan on doing a couple more, and by mounting a larger table top to two drum posts, I can make a larger table. It just keeps getting heavier if I let it...

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Carl McIver

ive started a new thread on this topic to avoid cluttering up the current thread

Shaun

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Shaun Van Poecke

I went out yesterday and took a picture of my welding table. But with all the stuff stacked on it and under it, you can't actually see the table. Will post one after I do some spring housecleaning.

Sheesh, where does all that stuff come from? It's like cats. You leave them out there, and come back, and you got more!

Steve

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Steve B

No, not like cats. With cats, if you get them to the veterinarian you can stop the multiplication process cold, and if you do it young enough you can avoid the marking.

I haven't seen the process yet that will work on Stuff to keep it from multiplying. ;-)

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Bruce L. Bergman

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:53:31 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Bruce L. Bergman quickly quoth:

I've been seeing tons of pets on Freecycle lately, none of which is listed as spayed, so they probably aren't.

STUFF is more like a rabbit family. It ALWAYS expands to fill whatever space is available, and then some.

Also, stuff can't be neutered; only its owners can. And there are few wives strong enough to enforce that, gods be thanked.

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Larry Jaques

Permanent loss of brain activity is probably about the only way to keep stuff from multiplying, but then it's passed on to others. A true perpetual energy

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Wild Bill

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