Nice fab table! Who makes that?Pre-holiday cheer…
But boxes **** and want to be opened. Alas, a cast iron welding table top.
Which needs legs…glad I have the tractor + forks
Placed and excited…
Some assembly required. Added lower shelf.
Couldn’t help but to mock up the first project just to see…yup, game changer.
Todo: figure out how to get the damn table off of the machine trucks. Haha!!
Yep, Fireball tools 5’ x 30”. Extremely well made and the casting is perfect. I’m on the fence about the coating tho. It’s nice, so nice I don’t want to put anything on the table and maybe scratch it. And I asked - yes, it’ll scratch. Think I’d prefer a non-coated surface but they’re not available in this size/format.
It’s shocking how much tubing goes into a small cart or stand!Started processing the tube I’ll use to make the press brake stand and material carts. First metalal project in the shop. Cutting on the floor is for the birds. Gonna have to make a buggy for the saw too and soon.
Chips seem to go everywhere. Mess was contained fairly well though. Cleaned up with just a little sweeping and a few minutes with the vac.
Prepped and ready to go. Gonna get some welding time in, super excited.
Barely had enough. 40’ and I ended up with three drops totaling 13”. Man that was cutting it close.
Well, it’s two carts and the base for the press brake…but it’s a lot of tube and I forgot how heavy 3/16 x 2.5” square tube is!
It will certainly be an upgrade to how I’ve been doing things my whole life as a fabricator. In a year I’ll let you know if it was worth it or not.That is a very nice welding table and accessories!
I agree with you. When I bought this one I actually did so planning to get a second, maybe. I’m curious as to how many times this sized table won’t be big enough. What I do know is that when I had the business I had a welding/assembly table that was 5’ x 5’. I almost always only used half of it mostly because I couldn’t reach any deeper into the table than 3’. Info recall once climbing up onto it with a bigger part but it was only once.
Congrats on the pump, having one that size is a nice upgrade! I have a run a couple of similar pumps and I would keep an eye on the PVC. On one of our machines we had to change out to high temp pipe because the pumps got so hot that the pipe eventually fails. I can't remember for sure, but there might be a way to adjust those pumps to compensate for higher altitudes. Lastly, Becker sells a noise enclosure for those pumps.Struggling to post with end of year (work and shop scramble), no lack of progress tho. Its now 14 months since taking possession of this house and I’m still not up and running, but getting closer every day now.
Got the upper cabinets made and hung on the other side of the shop, the machine shop side.
A pair to split the windows. Had to cut in provisions to allow the cabinet to fit around the conduit. Stuffed some of the things I’ve been pecking away at on it to get them off the bench.
Starting to be easier to walk around the machines now too.
Easier to walk around the shop as a whole actually.
Got a good deal on a big boy vacuum for the router table. The one I had works well but I find myself spending way too much time screwing around trying to cut little parts primarily because the table has a hard time hanging on to UV coated/prefinished plywood. This thing is a 9hp 3phase Becker Vacuum Pump. It’s footprint is actually smaller than the F4 I was using but much heavier do to the massive size of the motor.
About 850lbs I think. Used a tree strap to lift it off of the pallet.
Used the machine trucks to pivot it into position. Basic PVC ducting went quick.
Built a relay box with with a home automation controller for switching.
While I was at it, I added an electric valve to the router table so I can shut the air off to the table itself.
The spindle has a little jet in it to keep dust out on tooling changes but it’s permanently open so it’s more or less a 15 cfm leak always. Having a permanent leak which causes the compressor to cycle a lot, gets super annoying when doing stuff in the shop. Now I can turn it off.
Here’s the switches that control all this stuff. Once I get everything tuned, I’ll set up the vac switch to first turn on the phase converter, pause a few seconds, and the. Turn on the Vac. Same with off burning reverse order.
Thanks for the tips. I’ll look into the enclosures, didn’t know there was such a thing. I wasn’t sure about the PVC. Shop Sabre instructions show it directly threaded into the vac but I was a little concerned about heat so I instead used a pipe into a coupler, then PVC. I keep an eye..
Yeah, figured I’d make things I could actually use while I’m learning. Have so many ideas already, brain’s spinning.
Write em down, or the new ones will overwrite the old ones in your brain, and you'll only remember the last three stupid ones.
No doubt!
Ya, Bambu X1C
Yeah, got the combo. For filament I didn’t get any PLA, only asa and PTEG. Don’t have plans to make toys. Haha
Gridfinity bins???Busy makin’
Yep. Slow as hell gridfinity bins. Each is ~57 minutes which means just one of my drill bit drawers is a week of printing. It’s frickin neat but it’s slow. I’m tempted to buy a couple more but my spidey sense tells me that’s what they want me to do…
Print once, cry once?
Yeah, I think the customization and extreme organization of them make it worth it. That said, I’ll need half a dozen printers to get done by summer. I can read my wife’s mind - hell no. Maybe it’s a “it takes time” or “Rome wasn’t built in a day” thing.
Gyroid infill is the ticket for sure.
You just ruined me!
You are on point! I don't want to derail this fantastic thread beyond this post.
Yet, another awesome use for one of these. Tool organization is high on my priority list. I know I am going to fall victim to the trap sometime in 2025 that is the "Garage Journal makes you buy a 3d printer trap"I mean hell, paint drys faster.
