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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
All those tables are nice
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
Lis2323
what thickness is the plate?
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1 inch
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
whtbaron
You'll be ok as long as the bottom is open... as soon as you put a shelf down there, you need to be able to move to clean under it.
No shelf going under it. It’s designed so that you can get a chair under it and sit at it like you would a desk.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
William Payne
1 inch
Looks like an old road plate (construction)???
I’ve seen guys make tables out of those before.
There is always the criticism that those are not dead nuts flat.
But it’s not like your building spaceships for NASA
It’s flat enough to get the job done.
Anyway looks great.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Welcome to the 1” club.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
John T
Looks like an old road plate (construction)???
I’ve seen guys make tables out of those before.
There is always the criticism that those are not dead nuts flat.
But it’s not like your building spaceships for NASA
It’s flat enough to get the job done.
Anyway looks great.
It’s a surplus piece of boiler plate that I got from the oil and gas surplus store (a literal place a couple of hours from me).
It is pretty flat. If it’s got any bow at all it is less than a millimetre in any direction.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
John T
Welcome to the 1” club.
It should hold up good haha.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
here's mine
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
Lis2323
here's mine
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You win haha. What do you use your table for? I’d love to see it.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
Lis2323
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That is a beautiful bench. I want to do a nice rustic top like that for my kitchen table.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Here's the wood top one ...
the big vise is perfect for "tweaking" pieces when the hydraulic press would be overkill.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Awesome what kind of work do you do?
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
William Payne
Awesome what kind of work do you do?
Whatever I feel like. This is my hobby/retirement shop.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
Lis2323
Whatever I feel like. This is my hobby/retirement shop.
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Nice!!! Great setup.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
One thing I am going to do with the top of my table is to keep it clean and tidy is cover the bare top in dykem blue. It’s an old school trick that I’ve had a few old timers tell me about and TXSVIKING on YouTube does it as well.
Also I have welded a 304 stainless steel lug to the frame of the table for ground. I wanted something that would not rust causing a bad ground.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
It depends on your wife's age
If she is in the teens maybe 20's it will fly.
Later we call your new hat
Dave
Originally Posted by
William Payne
That is a beautiful bench. I want to do a nice rustic top like that for my kitchen table.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
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William Payne
One thing I am going to do with the top of my table is to keep it clean and tidy is cover the bare top in dykem blue....
I've come to the conclusion that the best way to keep my tables and benches clean would be to make the tops so they held battery acid...
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
John T
Genius! My kind of sense of humour right there.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
smithdoor
It depends on your wife's age
If she is in the teens maybe 20's it will fly.
Later we call your new hat
Dave
Single with no kids. I just do what I want haha.
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Just remember not to use as a dinning table after you are married.
It ok to use for dinning before marriage 💑.
Dave
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William Payne
Single with no kids. I just do what I want haha.
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Re: Stupidly overkill welding table project.
Originally Posted by
William Payne
Haha. No pin striping. I’m trying to stay away from that. It’s cool but I like the professional industrial grey look. It will be a grey when finished.
I figured it out. You need to take some white paper and go around the shop and wipe it on some random surfaces. Whatever color the dirt is - paint your weld table THAT color.
It'll always look clean!
Seriously, go with semi-gloss. Matte is harder to clean, and gloss shows imperfections more.
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