Anyone try ******* a fixture table with a burning table?

[Lelandwelds]

Slots and holes in a welding table have apparently become fashionable. Cutting tables with slats are usefully for collecting slag, drops, and gases and funneling them into a cart or out the door.

How about combining all three ideas in one table? Add some sliding bar to pin each end of the replaceable slat. Each bar would need to have support in the middle from a couple of slotted bars to prevent movement. Clamps could catch all over the top.

 

[FallibleFlyer]

Slots and holes in a welding table have apparently become fashionable. Cutting tables with slats are usefully for collecting slag, drops, and gases and funneling them into a cart or out the door.

How about combining all three ideas in one table? Add some sliding bar to pin each end of the replaceable slat. Each bar would need to have support in the middle from a couple of slotted bars to prevent movement. Clamps could catch all over the top.

I eagerly await you to build it

 

[rpcraft]

I'm down with watching the *******...

 

[sqznby]

Table *******, I'm down

 

[Richard Cranium]

I am confused, so I guess I will just have to follow along for the ride and see how this turns out.

 

[rpcraft]

I am confused, so I guess I will just have to follow along for the ride and see how this turns out.

Not sure about the ******* part to be fair but I presume he means lumping all three idea's together for use as a single table, thereby elminating the idea of a single task item and making it somewhat of a multiple use item, which I am always a fan of.

 

[cvairwerks]

That one pic is a bottom view of a certiflat table section being prepped for welding.

 

[steel 35]

How's this?

 

[Lwel9226]

I am confused, so I guess I will just have to follow along for the ride and see how this turns out.

Mee two.....

LW

 

[Lelandwelds]

Not sure about the ******* part to be fair but I presume he means lumping all three idea's together for use as a single table, thereby elminating the idea of a single task item and making it somewhat of a multiple use item, which I am always a fan of.

I am starting my fourth year without a shop and second since my mig was stolen. I am bored beyond belief.

Yes, I was asking about a multipurpose table. I have seen tables on GJ with odd features built in, tables with roller chains syncing parts together, tables that quick detatch grinders and vises, tables with hydraulics, and tables that snap onto their twins. I don't feel the need for a fixture table or a burning table but thought somebody might have built a table that combined the features.

People here keep teaching me things.

 

[Farrier]

10 posts yet no pics or vids of table *******? Who's gonna be the first?

 

[ilovevocs]

10 posts yet no pics or vids of table *******? Who's gonna be the first?

Its like making a mule by mating a horse and a donkey.

Seen something like it in Tijuana once, I think they were trying to make a centaur... not pretty.

 

[hotdogstand]

Its like making a mule by mating a horse and a donkey.

Seen something like it in Tijuana once, I think they were trying to make a centaur... not pretty.

 

[Guster]

What lubricant is required?

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

Here's one I humped together and all dry, no lube required. Flat table with vise on one side with cutting rack on the other. The cutting side has replaceable bars and a bottom catch pan to keep the hot bits off the toes. Room for C clamps below. On casters to move around. Actually a pretty handy table that gets a lot of use. Ed.

 

[Will S.]

What lubricant is required?

nozzle gel...

 

[Lelandwelds]

Here's one I humped together and all dry, no lube required. Flat table with vise on one side with cutting rack on the other. The cutting side has replaceable bars and a bottom catch pan to keep the hot bits off the toes. Room for C clamps below. On casters to move around. Actually a pretty handy table that gets a lot of use. Ed.

What is the cart on the floor underneath? Is that a drawer to catch slag? Do you have to carry it to dump?

I am not a fan of rolling worktables. (Pallet jack!) I don't like vises on tables. (I like semi brake drums filled with concrete, bolted to columns, or set in concrete outside. ) (detachable vises like Timothy Wilmots are in my future plans. )

The idea behind this thread is to get some new ideas not breathe my own exhaust. So, what are you doing on this table and why is it useful?

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

What is the cart on the floor underneath? Is that a drawer to catch slag? Do you have to carry it to dump?

I am not a fan of rolling worktables. (Pallet jack!) I don't like vises on tables. (I like semi brake drums filled with concrete, bolted to columns, or set in concrete outside. ) (detachable vises like Timothy Wilmots are in my future plans. )

The idea behind this thread is to get some new ideas not breathe my own exhaust. So, what are you doing on this table and why is it useful?

Well, since you asked so nice I'll start with the slag pan. It is fixed to the table. It does have a removable end cap held on by a wedge visible in one of the pics. It is a full 10" from the top of the bars to the bottom of the pan so I don't clean it out very often. Last time I just took off the end and scraped the scrap into a wheel barrow. The cart underneath is just one of the small carts I keep handy to move heavy things around the shop.

I like all kinds of work tables and I like this one to roll. Sometimes I roll it out in the sunshine to work on things. It is not a light duty table and does not move around under normal cutting, grinding, or welding operations. When I want a table that will not move unless the earth shakes I go to my big fab table or the big platen I store under it. I do like the vise on this table and find it invaluable for holding work. This cutting table has a clamp edge all around and the cutting bars are flush with the top so long items are easy to clamp to it. I like solid mounted vises as well and some of mine are anchored as well as any I've ever seen. A few pics....hopefully not too mundane. Ed.

 

[Lelandwelds]

Well, since you asked so nice I'll start with the slag pan. It is fixed to the table. It does have a removable end cap held on by a wedge visible in one of the pics. It is a full 10" from the top of the bars to the bottom of the pan so I don't clean it out very often. Last time I just took off the end and scraped the scrap into a wheel barrow. The cart underneath is just one of the small carts I keep handy to move heavy things around the shop.

I like all kinds of work tables and I like this one to roll. Sometimes I roll it out in the sunshine to work on things. It is not a light duty table and does not move around under normal cutting, grinding, or welding operations. When I want a table that will not move unless the earth shakes I go to my big fab table or the big platen I store under it. I do like the vise on this table and find it invaluable for holding work. This cutting table has a clamp edge all around and the cutting bars are flush with the top so long items are easy to clamp to it. I like solid mounted vises as well and some of mine are anchored as well as any I've ever seen. A few pics....hopefully not too mundane. Ed.

That post vise is a thing of beauty. Did you build it? Most of the ones i have seen were DIY jobs. Looks like you can always get a nice cross breeze. Bet that's a nice place to weld.

So, your slag bin is welded to the table? I guess the scrap trailer is off a loading dock and you dump your wheel barrow into it?

 

[Oregon rock crusher]

When I built the main shop I wanted the fab shop, a big lean to, open on three sides with the afternoon sun blocked by the main shop wall to the West. It's kind of like working under a shade tree most of the year. These are old pics and I've insulated the ceiling now so no more condensation drips in the winter. Even in summer there's just enough breeze most days to keep the air clear. Clean up is with a blower over the edge. Also the fab shop is mostly a deck with about a 15 ft drop off the East side. Getting scrap down the hill to the the pile isn't much of a problem.

The 8" post vise is mounted in a 1-1/2" plate relieved to take the post. The foot is solidly mounted in a crusher casting poured with backing. The upright at the back was 3/4" heavy wall tubing. The mount is home made but solid enough to get pretty good rebound off the vise jaws. It's welded and bolted to the floor. I forget what it weighs but over 400# with the mount. Ed.

 

[Will S.]

Very nice shop you have there, O.R.C.