All,
Do you have any ideas on a portable welding/work table?
I have used mostly a stool, stump, truck tailgate, and a cheap plastic collapsible table for my work surfaces for years. I have a multi-position Wilton vice (I want to say its a 5" jaw) that I bolted to a 1/2" plate base some years back. It is still a "portable" vice, the plate is a great stabilizer for it but I still move it around to different locations depending on what I'm up to, though it is quite heavy with the plate.
I would like to have a better "table" that I can set up to use then break down to store where I can set up work on it and clamp it down that doesn't matter if I get weld splatter and slag on it (just grind off if I have to).
I'm thinking having threaded thru-holes in the table top would be fantastic. If that is the case a plate top wouldn't work real well without stand-offs.
Laminated C channel is another idea - take a bunch of C channel parts and weld them together to create the "table top", drill, and tap the holes.
I guess you could take the C channel idea a bit further and combine it with a plate. Use the plate on top and angle iron on the bottom. Weld the angle iron as a T joint on the underside of the plate. This would create the same affect as the laminated C channel, only without the weld joints on the top - one uniform table top.
I think I like the plate + angle iron direction.
As for plate thickness - with the angle iron welded underneath to add bracing the plate thickness could be less = lighter to help move around.
Ideas? Does anyone have any pictures of their ideas?
Do you have any ideas on a portable welding/work table?
I have used mostly a stool, stump, truck tailgate, and a cheap plastic collapsible table for my work surfaces for years. I have a multi-position Wilton vice (I want to say its a 5" jaw) that I bolted to a 1/2" plate base some years back. It is still a "portable" vice, the plate is a great stabilizer for it but I still move it around to different locations depending on what I'm up to, though it is quite heavy with the plate.
I would like to have a better "table" that I can set up to use then break down to store where I can set up work on it and clamp it down that doesn't matter if I get weld splatter and slag on it (just grind off if I have to).
I'm thinking having threaded thru-holes in the table top would be fantastic. If that is the case a plate top wouldn't work real well without stand-offs.
Laminated C channel is another idea - take a bunch of C channel parts and weld them together to create the "table top", drill, and tap the holes.
I guess you could take the C channel idea a bit further and combine it with a plate. Use the plate on top and angle iron on the bottom. Weld the angle iron as a T joint on the underside of the plate. This would create the same affect as the laminated C channel, only without the weld joints on the top - one uniform table top.
I think I like the plate + angle iron direction.
As for plate thickness - with the angle iron welded underneath to add bracing the plate thickness could be less = lighter to help move around.
Ideas? Does anyone have any pictures of their ideas?
