My shop/welding table is to small to worry about a vice, but I may have made a set (4) of vises that are 1) adjustable on height, 2) easy to move around.
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I have one vise that sits above the surface of the table, and now I'm wishing I'd kept it low like Shorty. The more I drag large projects across the top of the table, the fewer obstructions I want, which makes the removable fixtures a good idea.
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I have one vise that sits above the surface of the table, and now I'm wishing I'd kept it low like Shorty. The more I drag large projects across the top of the table, the fewer obstructions I want, which makes the removable fixtures a good idea.
I have studied the layout for while and veteran guys comment that some aspects of my layout make it the easiest place they ever worked in.
I have bu8ilt a lot of benches. I have built a lot of features. I have never removed the removable vises on my service truck, never moved the one on my shop vise bench. It obviopusly depends on available space but I really do understand "general" work and maintenance the way a farm would, etc where the object is to get work doner and be work ready.
Being a career fabricator I done this before,, some things I like and done even though they may be nice elsewhere, they are not on the short list. I am not real fussy about the top in some respect cept for a couple dimensions, I want shelf under for heavy crap and hangers for clamps, adj and hammers. In a real working deal,,, I also do not want vise on a fab table and the pedestal is terrible so my ideal is 2 benches and 2 table and the vise table doesnt need to be so big, it becomes a magnet anyway but I like 2 benches, bolted to the floor, about 4 ft apart, vise on end of smaller one toward the fab table. I like cut box, and modest fab table, in the end most of the routine daily work is small or on machines excepting for the real "fab " shop where the maintenance. hobby types really run out of work once the place is fixed up.
We are a sometime fab shop but full time repair shop, bout the only time we do the same job twice is if we do the right and the left. I bought a bracket yesterday I could have fixed but simply didnt want to spend couple hrs up and personal with a welder and grinder chasing cracks when I could get new delivered for 50$. I gonna get a car hauled today instead of doing it.
The welders behind are fine as is to reach back for air on a reel but I like electric outlet on tables. mainly for corded grinder and in smaller shops that might be able to come from behind but I am a cord on the floor eliminator.
With a little management can deliver the grinding dross to the floor locally and most the cutting in the can.
While this looks simple it is by intention and the craftsmanship is debatable the layout is highly evolved and tuned. I believe there is a mod or 2 since this involving lights,
What I was tryin g to say I guess was I dont care for obstruction on a fab bench either. A cord hanging down is in the way.
I like cutting table.
I think on my table .
I just used saw horse but so dry here I have watch sparks all time.
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Originally Posted by Sberry
The welders behind are fine as is to reach back for air on a reel but I like electric outlet on tables. mainly for corded grinder and in smaller shops that might be able to come from behind but I am a cord on the floor eliminator.
With a little management can deliver the grinding dross to the floor locally and most the cutting in the can.
While this looks simple it is by intention and the craftsmanship is debatable the layout is highly evolved and tuned. I believe there is a mod or 2 since this involving lights,
What I was tryin g to say I guess was I dont care for obstruction on a fab bench either. A cord hanging down is in the way.
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