Bowling ball welding table

[willy3486]

I have a question on the bowling ball welding tables I have seen made. These are the ones that has two rotors holding a bowling ball and they grip it when a jack is raised. I am wondering on this instead of a hydraulic jack could one of the newer scissor type jacks that you wind up on newer cars be used? Would it grip it enough? Is there a reason not to use a wind up jack? I am the gathering up stage of making one and hope to weld it up in a few weeks.

 

[Old Man Roger]

They lift a truck so they’re gonna be pretty strong. Get a grippy ball.

 

[LXCam]

I saw the title, read the post and still was like WTF? You talk’n bout Willis

So I looked. Holly heck, that’s badass.

 

[drmarkr]

I have a question on the bowling ball welding tables I have seen made. These are the ones that has two rotors holding a bowling ball and they grip it when a jack is raised. I am wondering on this instead of a hydraulic jack could one of the newer scissor type jacks that you wind up on newer cars be used? Would it grip it enough? Is there a reason not to use a wind up jack? I am the gathering up stage of making one and hope to weld it up in a few weeks.

Googled it. The hydraulic model is fooking badazz. How would you work the scissor with your foot though?!?? I see bottle jacks as cheap as $20 on Amazon....

 

[Murby]

I've been welding for 40 years and the bowling ball welding table seems kind of pointless.. at least to me..

Something far more useful would be a motorized rotator.. something that rotates a pipe or an object while your grinding or welding so you can go full circle without stopping.

 

[willy3486]

For those who are not familiar here is one. I plan to do a different type top.

bowling ball table

The hydraulic model if fooking badazz. How would you work the scissor with your foot though?!??

Instead of using my foot I was wondering if I could just turn the handle with my hand. One issue might be that I would have to bend down more than I want. I have some of these. But after thinking about it I may go ahead and use a hydraulic jack.

 

[KwikFab]

Interesting.

I'll never see the need for one, nor will I ever want one, but interesting nonetheless.

 

[willy3486]

I've been welding for 40 years and the bowling ball welding table seems kind of pointless.. at least to me..

Something far more useful would be a motorized rotator.. something that rotates a pipe or an object while your grinding or welding so you can go full circle without stopping.

I plan on using it for other things than just welding. I will make a post for it when I make it showing how I plan to do it.

 

[willy3486]

Interesting.

I'll never see the need for one, nor will I ever want one, but interesting nonetheless.

One reason I want to make it is to see if I can. I have other ideas for a top instead of a flat piece to weld on.

 

[drmarkr]

One reason I want to make it is to see if I can. I have other ideas for a top instead of a flat piece to weld on.

post pics when you do...

 

[LXCam]

Ya know if someone was into the art’se fart’se stuff I could see this being super handy.

 

[DaveAndStuff]

I've been welding for 40 years and the bowling ball welding table seems kind of pointless.. at least to me..

Something far more useful would be a motorized rotator.. something that rotates a pipe or an object while your grinding or welding so you can go full circle without stopping.

We had a few rotators to weld flanges on rounds and they were pretty handy once you got them dialed in, and rotate them 90 degrees. They have really gotten cheap too.

I think the bowling ball thing would be more useful if it tipped 90 deg,, but it is still pretty small.

 

[iagsxr]

Didn't Royce build one here that was badass?

 

[jblnut]

If I have to sit and weld I’ll end up with splatter in places I don’t want it.

Neat idea though.

 

[whateg01]

I've been welding for 40 years and the bowling ball welding table seems kind of pointless.. at least to me..

Something far more useful would be a motorized rotator.. something that rotates a pipe or an object while your grinding or welding so you can go full circle without stopping.

 

[Old tool guy]

I bet the bowling ball would get pretty badly scarred in 6 months.