No Welding Table?.... Improvise.

[Danno1]

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My "welding table" is a piece of I beam bolted to a log!


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[jaxs]

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.

Great minds Kenny . So is mine,,,,,,and welder I mostly use is a Lincoln Pro-Mig 180,,,,,,,plus a blue can with an eagle on it is usually within easy reach.
I grabbed the table thinking it would work until I could do better but I;ve decided I can't do better. I move in and out of building alot depending on weather and follow shade of a tree during Tx summers that often reach triple didgits. It's easy to move,the top is aluminum so it doesn't rust and spatter doesn't stick. What bettter could a 1/2" thick steel top do for me?

 

[CalG]

I bought a motorcycle lift several years back. It's an ideal welding table.
It's hydraulic power lift is handy for getting things in the right attitude. The "gap" for the rear wheel drop out is very handy for getting at stuff. And being long and skinny, It lends it's self to most welding projects.

The one I have is pretty spendy bought new. I got it for a fair price.

Much like this,

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But mine has a hydraulic power pack to operate the lift cylinder.

 

[Sberry]

The motorcycle thing is a pretty good idea. I had a bud sold one wash and built out of heavy plate, should have got it as replacement to my old bench. Mine are not about the "quality", they were scrap when I moved in and got attachments as needed and worked well enough there was no real incentive to make it better. There are 2, one with vise and one plain top. The location is everything, super ergonomic and would only make slight changed to do it again starting with a bit nicer top.

 

[Sberry]

scrap tacked.

 

[TractorGuy]

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?

I haven't had these long. My first welding job was done in the vise I bolted to the corner. I figured the spatter scars would give it character. The black spots on the light colored wood bugs me. My old boxes had a dark wood top and the spots didn't show.

I've only welded on top of them once with the aluminum on top. As far as I can tell it will protect the wood surface fine.

It is way more comfortable to weld standing up instead of crouching on the floor.

 

[Sberry]

You dont always need a lot but the floor gets old fast. My neighbor gets by as a minimalist but he got benches for other work. My workbench is ,,,, the bench,,,, or my bench on occasion. We say, take it to the bench and we know what it is and its a bench for lots of stuff and I keep grease to a minimum but it foes all kinds of duty besides welding and got the vise on the corner of another one. I dont care if its not fancy but the layout is super. I have a 180 makes its home around the vise and end of the welding bench and can reach back for the bigger machines, the air fitting is unique and benches have gfci 120V for 4 1/2 grinder mostly and occasional little drill press.

 

[Sberry]

A full time fabber might use some advanced clamps but I like common multi purpose for this work. My world would stop without some 11R. Others are not as used to fire direction as I am but I keep picked up and isolated, contained to the point I can cut in the can, weld over it some or do in a fashion I dont need to fire wait every spark. Can run in, cut weld a gadget and leave without sweating fire safety.

 

[Sberry]

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My "welding table" is a piece of I beam bolted to a log!


.Nothing wrong with that. A good share of the worlds welds are one simple piece to another and not all complex weldments,,,, very few of mine are and can make do. In a real busy fab shop there might be some benifit to custom table and specialized clamps but I really prefer simple and general with most common clamps and really dont need every variation they ever invented. As useful as all that is some scraps to be abel to jig up is a huge asset.

 

[Buggs67]

My last weld was the box blade so that wasn't going on a table. But before that I used an old steel table top on saw horses. When I get around to it I'll reinforce that table top, add legs and a vise. Bending over and crouching next to that box blade made my legs and back ache.

The sanding stand I made on the table was nice. Sitting comfortable. I used an old truck brake rotor as the base.

 

[CalG]

My last weld was the box blade so that wasn't going on a table. But before that I used an old steel table top on saw horses. When I get around to it I'll reinforce that table top, add legs and a vise. Bending over and crouching next to that box blade made my legs and back ache.

The sanding stand I made on the table was nice. Sitting comfortable. I used an old truck brake rotor as the base.

A box blade would do fine on the motorbike lift table! ;-)

The one I have starts about 4 inches off the floor and lifts to about 4 feet. ;-)

jess braggin ;-)

 

[Gordon Gould]

No real welding table - just a 2 X 3 work cart. But I have a big air conditioned shop.

gg

 

[dstig1]

For years I used a pair of wood sawhorses and the old angle iron ramps from my old trailer. They were dangerous/failing and heavy so I replaced them with new alum ramps, and repurposed the old ones. Nothing was flat or even, and pretty impossible to clamp much to it, but it got me by for quite a while. I can understand how many people never get past something like that, especially if the need is very rare.

When I eventually moved into my new place with a big shop I built a table that was based on an old steel angle iron table I picked up cheap. Here is the old table already partly cut apart and getting ready for the 2" x 1/4" tube legs I added.

I had the frame powder coated. The top is 8 foot by about 28-30" wide 1/4". I put receivers on it to hold a vise and a ring roller and whatever else I came up with. Here is a shot of it all done.

The width was limited as I needed it to fit between my tractor and truck in the shop "garage". So I put 3 receivers on one side and made a set of "extensions" I could put in there to give me a bigger working surface when needed.

I just store the extension below when not needed so I can park the truck there. 3 pieces go into the receivers and then I have plates that drop in between and a couple flat head screws to hold them in place.

I would like to add some more hangers for clamps and such as they are all sitting on the shelf and it is a bit of a mess and everything falls off when grabbing them right now. I might do some brackets and bolt it onto the open side legs.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I bided my time welding on expanded mesh tables that I got cheap off of craig's list while looking for a good deal on something better. The expanded mesh table was a good strategy and while I also got a bunch of expanded mesh rocking chairs that will last forever, I hit the jackpot when I got a one-off welding-fabrication table for cheap at auction.

 

[ArtMech]

I have made two low budget garage helpers. Since the space is very limited both are narrow and easy to carry over them to put wherever it's needed. Welding is usually done outdoors to avoid toxic gases or grinding dust. I use them also for woodwork. You may see more about it in the following video.

 

[Tags]

Lots of good repurposed materials for welding tables. I have a big 4x8 1/2” sheet on heavy legs that mainly stays outside, I can bring it in with forks when I need a big work table. I repurposed some catch basin grates and some heavy wall steel pipe to make a small table for plasma cutting and welding. Would like to add some casters some day….

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I have made two low budget garage helpers. Since the space is very limited both are narrow and easy to carry over them to put wherever it's needed. Welding is usually done outdoors to avoid toxic gases or grinding dust. I use them also for woodwork. You may see more about it in the following video.

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I liked your welding table and shelves video as well as your SMG video!

 

[ArtMech]

I liked your welding table and shelves video as well as your SMG video!

Thanks for the rating. At the time, our country was in quarantine, so each had an opportunity to make the use of that time somehow. As for SMG, this was almost the most important job in my life in general. Unfortunately it didn’t have a prospect.

 

[California]

Welding table made from scrap.

A friend gave me free scrap from a larger auction win. Five 13" x 6.5" panels. I think they were related to TV wall mounts. Plus a column with plates on each end. I welded the panels together for the table top. The foundation is an old tractor wheel.

The holes in the tabletop are handy for clamping work down using c-clamps.

To reduce fire hazard in my ancient shop - a barn stall - I generally weld outside in front, and use flux core. Everything has to be portable. (But a cold damp winter day in this photo so I'm more inside than usual).

This table, and a vise bolted onto a portable grinder pedestal, have been all I've ever needed for welding things I can lift. Lots pleasanter than working on the floor!

We need a thread about projects made with free scrap. I was given incomplete exercise equipment left behind by a tenant. The parts have been the basis for several projects.

 

[WranglerX]

Finally don't have to improvise....

Finally A Welding Table

Well after several false starts and road blocks I have a welding table... A while back I acquired a piece of 1/4 inch plate that measures 26X28 inches....A while after I got a set of casters from local tractor supply... Some time has gone by... A few days ago I went to local metal supplier and...

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