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I want to tell you to grow a pair and let the kid be a kid and let the parent be a parent. Then again I'm also the guy that gave my 5 year old a SHARP pocket knife and let him carry it and use it without supervision. We first sat down and had a very good discussion of what was appropriate and...

I assume that you are refering to the gussets shown in this photo. These are actually from Speedway Motors. 1-1/2" x 1-1/2". Thickness: 14 ga. (.0785) Gussets I bought a pack of these a while ago and keep finding neat places to use them. For the price I can't afford not to have some around...

Cryptic1911 thanks for sharing this with us. This will have far ranging applications within the welding industry. I work for one of the leading welding automation companies and just sent a copy of this video to our company president and vice-president. It will be interesting to see their...

Just putting the welding table to work. Here it is lending a helping hand while I weld up a broadfork for working the soil in my garden. I must admit that having the welding table and being able to position my parts at a reasonable working height is so much nicer than crounching over on...

Thanks akdiesel! Please use any of the ideas that you've seen here. Just make sure to post up a build thread when you get to working on it. Too bad about the freight on the tubing roller. If I had a VW Diesel I'd offfer to drive one up to you. Sounds like a viable reason for a road trip. Mike

Thank you for the compliments. Remember that this is a tubing roller: These are used to form large radius curves in longer lengths of tubing. If you continue running the length of tubing through the roller you will eventually have a tighter and tighter radius. The down side of using a...

Let me know when you get it back. I'll shoot over some .dwg or .dxf files for you to cut out for me. Would you give me a good price of the parts were for my son's go-kart? Mike

My bench vise and bench grinder will both be put on bases to go into the reciever tube. I'm just too cheap to go out and buy the metal to bolt them on to. I have a friend checking his farm to see if he has a couple chunks of 1/2'' plate to mount them on. Oh, and the two-stroke is a 1985 Polaris...

Well guys I was out in the shed over the last couple days and put the welding / fab table to use. A couple bar clamps allowed me to give my new Harbor Freight Tubing Roller a test run. The steel tube is 1-1/2" OD with a 0.120" wall thickness. At first I tried it with the stock...

I was actually thinking about that last night because I did notice that it felt like there was a bit of give in the bolts as I tightened them down. I went back out to the shed today and took a look at them and to my surprise the problem wasn't from opening up but instead pulling the eyelet into...

Your fab work and design talents are with out compare. Thanks for sharing; it looks exquisite. Mike

I was working in the shop for a while today and had an opportunity to make the weld / Fabrication table a little more useful. In the shop I have a few sections of rail road track that I use for helping me beat, bend, mold and otherwise shape the things I work on. In the past I've been at the...

I'm not sure about what the most common plate steel is; most of my home fabrication involves the use of HREW square and rectange tubing and some hot roll and cold roll sheet metals and solids. As you suspected I did provide them with the .dxf file, they provided the material and performed the...

Just for the record I checked with my supplier on what alloy of steel they cut the table top plate from. Here is his response: Hello Mike --- we use prime A36 plate out of the SSAB North America strip mill plant (Iowa). This material is 100% melted and manufactured in the USA. It is the most...

My intention is to build a shelf along the lower portion of the table substructure. I'll add some 2" square holes in the shel to accept the square tubing of the tools that will be stored down there when not in use. Good luck with comming up with a design that will work for your needs. Trust me...

36" x 20" - The slots are 1/2" wide by 14" long and the three corners have a 2" radius. The angle iron support that the table top is welded to is made up of 2" x 3" angle iron. This gives me a 3" lip around the perimeter of the table for using C-clamps and bar-clamps to hold items in place to be...

Thanks for the compliments. And good guess on the fabrication industry. I actually work in sales for a company that builds automated welding equipment that we sell worldwide. Our customers range from small mom and pop fab shops to customers in the nuclear, energy, defense, and aerospace...

Nope, for this table I wanted to be able to keep it in a fixed location. If I need to move it I'll just get one of the boys to help me with it. Besides if I were to add wheels to it they would be on some sort of pivot so that when they weren't needed I could lower the table back down onto the...

Thanks man. Oh, and steel plate cutting lasers are only one .dxf file and an email away. I love it when technology and the real worl combine to provide us with cool tools. Mike