Welding table

[Toddppm]

Anybody have one? Was thinking about making or buying one. Have seen a few auctions where I could pick up a stainless steel prep table for less than the steel to build a good table. Will stainless have good enough conduction to work good? Seen a lot of tables with thick tops making me think the stainless will not conduct so good since it's usually pretty thin?

 

[2treeornot2tree]

Most weld tables are mild steel so you can weld to them as you fabricate the piece you are making. In high school I worked in a welding shop fabricating handrails and what not. Nice to be able to weld to the table for clamp placements and just grind it off when your done. Most times now I am welding on equipment or large pieces. Alot ot times now I just weld on a couple pieces of 6x6 on the floor or on top a metal barrel.

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[Toddppm]

Most weld tables are mild steel so you can weld to them as you fabricate the piece you are making. In high school I worked in a welding shop fabricating handrails and what not. Nice to be able to weld to the table for clamp placements and just grind it off when your done. Most times now I am welding on equipment or large pieces. Alot ot times now I just weld on a couple pieces of 6x6 on the floor or on top a metal barrel.

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Yeah I guess that would be a main benefit to having a good thick steel table. I have a decent sheet of steel but not too thick, wishing I would have saved a couple nice big plates I used to have......

 

[Goose IBEW]

I'd prefer at least 1/4" plate. The table has to be able to withstand the rigors of heavy pieces being thrown on it and stay flat and true. A bent or warped table top will make fabrication a nightmare.

 

[Hoowasat]

I highly recommend you DO NOT use a stainless steel table. Weld splatter sticks to stainless like nobody's business, and you'll find yourself constantly grinding/sanding to remove the splatter. Where I work (shipbuilding), we always have to wrap the stainless pipe with fire resistant covering in order to protect the pipe from collecting weld splatter (and the cost of removing the splatter).

 

[Frank Boyer]

The Voc center that I worked at had welding tables with cut out holes and drop in fixtures to hold stuff. The holes were in a pattern so that the holding fixtures could be moved around, the table was around 5' X 10". Great for fab work.

 

[Toddppm]

There's a table for sale here locally built by a motorcycle shop with a 1/2" top , sturdy frame and on wheels. Too bad it's $500.00, have too many other needs right now to drop that on something that won't get used too much.

 

[Hoowasat]

I've performed a few hundred hours of welding atop nothing more than a 4" x 4" x 3/8" angle-bar clamped in a Black & Decker Workmate.

 

[Toddppm]

I usually just prop up whatever I'm doing on some 6x6" timbers on the floor or on the trailer. This table is definitely a "want" and not a "need" it'd be nice to have and use as another work surface for other things too.

Why is my want list always bigger than my need list?

 

[cantoo]

I likely have over 25 different tables, carts, benches and shelves that I work on. You can never have enough workspace. I just did a quick count in my head and I likely have more than 35 work surfaces. The ones that get used the most are little 3x4', 2 level steel wheeled carts. I have a couple with heavy tops on them and they are handy. I also have a bunch of 4'x8' wheeled benches that are handy too. I have tooooooo many projects, some are my son's though. There's 10 bench/ work surfaces just in this one pic.

 

[colson04]

This was found over in the firewood forum, but here's a link to a pretty kick-A setup

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/v...fab-table-how-would-you-do-179769/index2.html

 

[046]

best place to score a welding table is craigslist .. but you cannot be in a hurry.
you'd be surprised at the times folks are clearing house and don't know how to handle a heavy welding table with 1/4in or thicker top. sometimes they just want it gone for dirt cheap.

you cannot build a nice welding table with min 1/4in steel for less than you can find it on craigslist.
but you cannot be in a hurry ...

 

[Toddppm]

This was found over in the firewood forum, but here's a link to a pretty kick-A setup

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/v...fab-table-how-would-you-do-179769/index2.html

That's pretty trick, hhhhmmm did he mention a trolley crane in there too........

 

[Toddppm]

best place to score a welding table is craigslist .. but you cannot be in a hurry.
you'd be surprised at the times folks are clearing house and don't know how to handle a heavy welding table with 1/4in or thicker top. sometimes they just want it gone for dirt cheap.

you cannot build a nice welding table with min 1/4in steel for less than you can find it on craigslist.
but you cannot be in a hurry ...

Yes, I obtained this current obsession a couple months ago and have been watching craigslist. I can wait, been too busy to worry about it much but slow season is almost here. I need to make some cab protectors really soon so I'm about out of time to use a table before I build these.

 

[XSKIER]

I likely have over 25 different tables, carts, benches and shelves that I work on. You can never have enough workspace. I just did a quick count in my head and I likely have more than 35 work surfaces. The ones that get used the most are little 3x4', 2 level steel wheeled carts. I have a couple with heavy tops on them and they are handy. I also have a bunch of 4'x8' wheeled benches that are handy too. I have tooooooo many projects, some are my son's though. There's 10 bench/ work surfaces just in this one pic. View attachment 320627

Ha. 10+ cases of here we go!

I see a lot of wood table tops in there?

 

[Sagetown]

I made my ugly welding table out of various scrap plate steel and angle iron. Not for fabrication work by any means, but better than working on the ground.

 

[cantoo]

XSKIER, that was booze for my son's many wedding parties, he got married in August. They had like 10 different parties before the wedding so multiple trips across the border for cheap booze. There was also 100 bottles of pop for mix on carts in the corner. My wife and I don't even drink. The wooden tables are usually just work tables and not for welding. I have 2 of them that are 4x8, I use them a lot outside in fact last weekend I used one as a scaffold to replace 2 windows on my house. Easy to move around with the tractor. I paid $10 each for them, another case of just needed to get rid of them.
Wanna see something really bad? Check out my thread for a few years ago. I built a 24x 56' shop since then. http://www.************/showthread.php?t=184416&highlight=messy shop. guess we can't link other sites, I'm a member of Lawnsite and use the same name there. The thread can be found by doing a search for "messy shop" under my user name.