Re: Welding Table


"Curt Welch" <curt@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"SteveB" <novalidaddy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My three tables were
all four by ten feet, made of angle. The first one three inch by 3/8".
I toned down a bit on the second, and my present one is quarter by two
angle. I have the long rails set in one foot and eighteen inches from
the side, and that lets me make most configurations of fence.

So it's all angle iron with no top plate? How does that work?

Yep. Lots of space inbetween. I can sit most anything up there, and two of
the rails or more will support it.



You have two long rails running the 10' direction, and then lots of 4'
rails running across the top of that? Is that what you did?

No, four ten footers, and two four footers on the ends. Sometimes if I have
to put something real heavy on it in the middle, I use a support beam on a
screw jack that spans the four foot and put it in the center under the table
to prevent flex.



On the cross rails, did you position them flat edge up creating a flat
surface with gaps in it to work on? Or did you position them flat edge
down giving you a grate like surface to hold your work? Or did you do
something else? The idea of a table with open slots to create lots of
clamping options sounds very functional.

Not sure what you mean. On the outside of the table, the center of the
angle is inward so there's the lip sticking out to clamp to. The top of the
table is with the flat sides up, making a fairly flat even surface. I do a
lot of different types of welding, but this is great for fences and gates.
You lay your stock on there for the outside frame, lay some flat bar of
various thicknesses along the rails that centers the spindles you want to
weld in. Get it all laid in, and clamp in a few strategic places and start
welding.

I'll snap a photo of it and post it on Flickr.

Steve



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