sberry
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I would like to see the floor plan where this sits, but I really like the shelf under. I am a fan of walk around bench but this with 3 sides accessible is not bad either.
New welding table build..sort of....
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sberry
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Electric outlet on the face is super handy.
Thanks sberry! I'll post some pics of it in it's home in a second. I'd imagine that I'd be moving it away from the wall most of the time when I'm using it. I prefer to be able to get to all sides as well. Once I finish the next project which is an metal working bench that will be right beside the welding table, then only the front will be accessible with the welding table against the wall.
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After some honeydo's this morning and a quick nap 
I headed out to the garage to get a couple more things done on the welding table. I've incorporated a couple of things that I saw on the Street Rodder Magazine table build and I added another today.
Here's the link to that table if you haven't seen it...
Street Rodder Welding Table
I really liked the tubes on the corners of the table to hold the MIG gun so I whipped up some of them today and got them on the table. Here's one of those times that me always keeping stupid **** came in handy. My wife recently broke her mop handle I kept it just in case I might need it for something.
It's actually 24 gauge steel tubing.
I cut a piece and then tried to figure out exactly how I was going to flare the end. I finally hit on the answer. I took the drive center out of the tail stock of my lathe and used a dead blow mallet to tap it into the end of the tubing with the other end on a wood block. Worked perfectly.
I cut the opposite end to length at the angle that I wanted to have the tube sit on the table leg. I wasn't exactly sure that I could weld the thin tubing from the outside of the leg so I marked the location and drilled 2 - 5/16" holes in the legs and plug welded the tubes to the legs from the inside.
Apparently my leather apron is reflecting off the bare metal making it look yellow in the pic. Sorry for the poor photography.
And here is one of the tubes welded to the table. I actually put tubes on 3 corners so I'd have one handy no matter where I was working around the table.
And here is one of them in action.
When I bought my race trailer the guy before me had a very leaky Mustang drag car. He had cut sheets of ATP and screwed them over the rubber coin floor and I could tell that the floor under the ATP was soaked with trans fluid and oil so I pulled the ATP to clean the mess thinking that I'd reinstall the ATP but the rubber floor cleaned up so well that I decided that I'd just leave it naked so I have 2 sheets of used ATP at my disposal and I figured this was a good place to use some of it. I cut some pieces to cover the nasty 11 gauge lower shelf.
Most of my remaining garage time was spend on the edges of the top. The place that I bought the plate was maxing out their shear to do 3/8" and they obviously have bad blades or something because the edges were awful. I ground and belt sanded for quite a while to get it smoothed out and looking good.
I'm just about ready to call the fab part of this project done. I have one or two more things to add which I'll hopefully do next weekend and then I'll be ready to disassemble and get it painted.
I did put many coats of Johnson's wax on the top before I came in for the evening. We'll see how that holds off the rust. I'm pretty happy with how the top came out.
And here it is in it's home.
The space to the right of the table will soon become a metal working bench that will have a recessed spot for the dry cut saw to be flush with the top. I'll have a space for my battery charger cart to fit under the bench as well. There will be just enough room for the welder in between the welding table and the bench. I'll start on that as soon as I finish the welding table.
Thanks again for following my project!!
Terry
I headed out to the garage to get a couple more things done on the welding table. I've incorporated a couple of things that I saw on the Street Rodder Magazine table build and I added another today.Here's the link to that table if you haven't seen it...
Street Rodder Welding Table
I really liked the tubes on the corners of the table to hold the MIG gun so I whipped up some of them today and got them on the table. Here's one of those times that me always keeping stupid **** came in handy. My wife recently broke her mop handle I kept it just in case I might need it for something.
It's actually 24 gauge steel tubing.
I cut a piece and then tried to figure out exactly how I was going to flare the end. I finally hit on the answer. I took the drive center out of the tail stock of my lathe and used a dead blow mallet to tap it into the end of the tubing with the other end on a wood block. Worked perfectly.
I cut the opposite end to length at the angle that I wanted to have the tube sit on the table leg. I wasn't exactly sure that I could weld the thin tubing from the outside of the leg so I marked the location and drilled 2 - 5/16" holes in the legs and plug welded the tubes to the legs from the inside.
Apparently my leather apron is reflecting off the bare metal making it look yellow in the pic. Sorry for the poor photography.
And here is one of the tubes welded to the table. I actually put tubes on 3 corners so I'd have one handy no matter where I was working around the table.
And here is one of them in action.
When I bought my race trailer the guy before me had a very leaky Mustang drag car. He had cut sheets of ATP and screwed them over the rubber coin floor and I could tell that the floor under the ATP was soaked with trans fluid and oil so I pulled the ATP to clean the mess thinking that I'd reinstall the ATP but the rubber floor cleaned up so well that I decided that I'd just leave it naked so I have 2 sheets of used ATP at my disposal and I figured this was a good place to use some of it. I cut some pieces to cover the nasty 11 gauge lower shelf.
Most of my remaining garage time was spend on the edges of the top. The place that I bought the plate was maxing out their shear to do 3/8" and they obviously have bad blades or something because the edges were awful. I ground and belt sanded for quite a while to get it smoothed out and looking good.
I'm just about ready to call the fab part of this project done. I have one or two more things to add which I'll hopefully do next weekend and then I'll be ready to disassemble and get it painted.
I did put many coats of Johnson's wax on the top before I came in for the evening. We'll see how that holds off the rust. I'm pretty happy with how the top came out.
And here it is in it's home.
The space to the right of the table will soon become a metal working bench that will have a recessed spot for the dry cut saw to be flush with the top. I'll have a space for my battery charger cart to fit under the bench as well. There will be just enough room for the welder in between the welding table and the bench. I'll start on that as soon as I finish the welding table.
Thanks again for following my project!!
Terry
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Duker
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I cut a piece and then tried to figure out exactly how I was going to flare the end. I finally hit on the answer. I took the drive center out of the tail stock of my lathe and used a dead blow mallet to tap it into the end of the tubing with the other end on a wood block. Worked perfectly.
Terry
That was a great idea. I am kicking myself as I had a project a few months back where that little trick would have saved me hours of experimenting and grief!
The table is looking great. I need you to hurry up and finish so any other good ideas you come up with I can use in my table!
OK, last day of fab work on the table is done. I decided I'd take the carriage bolt ground idea one step farther. I picked up 2 - 12"x1/2'' carriage bolts this week to make vise grip holders for the table. I cut off all but 2" of the threads and welded them to the table on opposite corners.
Makes for a sturdy and very handy place to hang my vise grips and clamps.
Here's the one on the opposite corner. I thinking I'm going to like these.
I also got the tool mount done for my 8" slow speed grinder. I have a few more mounts to make but the vise and this grinder were my main concerns so I'll do the others later.
Next weekend I'll disassemble everything and start getting it ready for paint. Almost there!!
Thanks for looking!!
Terry
Makes for a sturdy and very handy place to hang my vise grips and clamps.
Here's the one on the opposite corner. I thinking I'm going to like these.
I also got the tool mount done for my 8" slow speed grinder. I have a few more mounts to make but the vise and this grinder were my main concerns so I'll do the others later.
Next weekend I'll disassemble everything and start getting it ready for paint. Almost there!!
Thanks for looking!!
Terry
Duker
Well-known member
Looking good Terry! 
hippie2cams
Well-known member
well done on your new table. There is one thing that I would like to point out though we need to clean-up those cords on all the grinders if you tried to move the table like it is no jueno, tripping hazards, cords getting pinched, crushed ect, not to mention that you are going to have to stand there and roll all that **** up before you can move. do it now and keep it clean
sberry
Banned
There are 3 or 4 I am real impressed with, this is on the short list. It fits the best it can, not over complicated or over built for a table that is portable anyway.