No Welding Table?.... Improvise.

[WranglerX]

Since I don't have a welding table I just improvised by using my post (leg) vice I use for blacksmithing...

Project was a tool caddy for rear of my SCUT



Yes it is a rehash of older caddy that was not really very good...........

Dale

 

[PILOON]

I've always thought you have a welder to weld.
I chuckle when I see posts as to what table to buy.
What better way to practice but by making your very own table!

 

[WranglerX]

I've always thought you have a welder to weld.
I chuckle when I see posts as to what table to buy.
What better way to practice but by making your very own table!

Yes the table is another of those "will get to it someday" projects, if I was welding more and had more demand for a "table" in shop it would have been done by now....

 

[nikerret]

Well, mine is not awe inspiring.

 

[KennyG]

My welding table is an old Craftsman table saw that went bad. I stripped the parts out and put it on casters. You work with what you have.

 

[chim]

Before this table, I worked off of sawhorses, on my knees in the driveway, plywood on 5 gallon buckets or whatever.

Built mostly from stuff found around the shop at work. Sits on casters (2 fixed and 2 swivel) with floor locks on the end that has the swivel casters. Top is 3' x 4' x 3/8" with some HD angle framing. Has room on the shelf for the Millermatic 175 and Hypertherm 30Air. Pic was taken before the Everlast 200STi arrived. The old Wilton vise was a Craigslist find a few years ago.

 

[stuckmotor]

I've always thought you have a welder to weld.
I chuckle when I see posts as to what table to buy.
What better way to practice but by making your very own table!

If I could afford all the super dooper ready made gizmos that go with a welder, I'd be able to buy what I need and hire out the occasional welding job. I wouldn't even need a welder.

 

[Sberry]

My neighbor is an expert and has a table like Dales in his garage for a little welding.

 

[Big Barn]

I just finished this little welding table yesterday.

2'x2'x3/4".

 

[PILOON]

I just finished this little welding table yesterday.

2'x2'x3/4".

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[PILOON]

Guess we call that heavy duty!

 

[Big Barn]

Thanks Piloon. It weighs 250 pounds so definitely heavy.

Threw a cost of paint on before lunch...

so I am officially done

 

[WranglerX]

Like the receiver concept for variable tool mount....

 

[ning]

I do my welding on the floor for the most part, though that's getting hard on my knees. My last project was a 7.5'x12.5' gate, so a table would've been out of the question anyways.

Occasionally I do a small job on top of an old folding work stand, where the decrepit particle board top gets a bit smoky... not advised, do as I say, not as I do

 

[Sberry]

I dont like a huge table for most fab work. Its too much to walk around and reach across. Some of the best I have ever seen have been rather simple. The one above is art.

 

[Sberry]

Mine are not anything that is gonna make it in a boutique store. All scrap that got patched in when I moved in. I was going to make better but it worked well enuff that it's still there. I have 2 one with a vise. Pic in a bit.

 

[Sberry]

Mine are not anything that is gonna make it in a boutique store. All scrap that got patched in when I moved in. I was going to make better but it worked well enuff that it's still there. I have 2 one with a vise. Pic in a bit.

 

[TractorGuy]

I don't have room for a dedicated welding table.

I recently replaced my old MAC tool boxes with 3, 46 inch Husky boxes. I have two of those on one wall bolted together and bolted to the wall. I just lay on a piece of aluminum tread plate on top to protect the wood tops.

 

[Citydude]

I don't have room for a dedicated welding table.

I recently replaced my old MAC tool boxes with 3, 46 inch Husky boxes. I have two of those on one wall bolted together and bolted to the wall. I just lay on a piece of aluminum tread plate on top to protect the wood tops.

Do you weld on that top? I have a 3x8 bench with a plywood top and was thinking of putting a piece of 3/16 plate on top. But, I'm wondering if it would be a fire hazard?

 

[PILOON]

LOL, my 'welding table' smokes a lot.
I mostly weld outdoors and use an old plywood topped work table that has folding legs.
The plywood top is well scarred and has many cuts from being used as a cut off grinder disk brake.*

*( most often I stop the blade by gauging the blade onto the wood.)