making metal work table.

[brownbagg]

making work tables out of metal. like a welding table or saw stand. Do you 45 the corner or another way like overlapping. It be a total welded structure

 

[coma13]

Personal preference mostly. Most people find it easier not to miter and just it one tube on top of another and weld the perimeter.

 

[BD1]

It depends on what material I am working with . Square tube, rectangular tube, I beam , angle, or round.

 

[kazlx]

Not mitering corners is lazy fabrication, unless there is a specific reason not to.

 

[rsanter]

If you make it from the correct size of tone you could just but the ends up not mite red and at the same time do the popular setup of having an end to slide a receiver into the holds a vise or other tool or work holding thing that you may want to swap out from time to time

Bob

 

[IrishGuy]

Personal preference mostly. Most people find it easier not to miter and just it one tube on top of another and weld the perimeter.

I agree with coma13 -- very much so a personel preference unless you are building for someone else then you build the way they want. I found this one over at WeldingWeb and very much the way coma13 describes it -- I like it more for the slatted top design but the build is neat and tidy:

http://weldingweb.com/showthread.ph...d-project-the-clamping-friendly-welding-table

Good luck on your build!

 

[motobilt]

I don't miter the box tube on the underside of my tables. This is a great place to store straight edges, levels, files, and so on.

Dan

 

[JonnFX]

Also, if you leave an end open, you can slip a tube or something in it, so you can bend or unbend it.

 

[sberry]

Not mitering corners is lazy fabrication, unless there is a specific reason not to.

I do it the other way, I need a specific reason to miter. I have built hundreds,,, actually hundreds and that's not an exaggeration, did it for a big plant.

The corner connection is the least critical, at that point any weight is on the post.