I built this welding table the second week at my new job since they brought me in as their new and first fabricator. The frame of the table I took the idea from one of the welding project pics on Miller's site and added my own little twist with the plasma cutting grate. This picture is just after finishing up the basic welding, but I've since painted the frame, and added a few more tool holding brackets and other details. I'm waiting on a catch pan to be bent up locally which I'll put under the plasma grate and be quickly removable to empty when needed.The table was mig welded with my Lincoln 175 hiding behind the PowerPro205, but I did use the Everlast to cut out the 18 x 21" opening. Our 30amp breaker kept tripping from extended use at 45+ amps so I had to do short 1.5" sections and keep taking breaks.Specs of the table are:4x8', 1/2" thick top sheet2x2", 3/16" wall square tubing3" non-marking casters, overall height of 5.5" (if I recall right) with locking wheel and swiveltotal weight approximately 750-800lbs. Raw materials weighed in at 850 or so on invoice, before cutting out 18x21 plate. Attached Images
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ooks great, nice clean job. I would remove those cardboard boxes before doing any cutting over the grating, unless you like bonfires. :bMM350P/Python/Q300MM175/Q300DialarcHFHTP MIG200PowCon300SMHypertherm380ThermalArc185Purox oaF350CrewCab4x4LoadNGo utilitybedBobcat250XMT304/Optima/SpoolmaticSuitcase12RC/Q300Suitcase8RC/Q400Passport/Q300Smith op
Reply:Nice table. What you going to be building on it? I'm guessing automotive parts?Bonfires in the shop are overrated anyway. The FD always gets called, then the big bosses get called and then it's no fun anymore
Reply:The boxes are long gone. They were there to lay down the next day before paint. I've already burnt the floor coating in another spot so that's why I'm waiting on a 6" x 18" x 21" catch pan to install before using again.I'll be fabricating mostly automotive parts in my work area, yes. Although I made a mini beer stein out of aluminum Friday.
Reply:Nice looking job are you going to put a vice on it?
Reply:There's a vice on two of the other benches around the shop, but I've considered adding a receiver type of hitch to the table to swap out mountable tool attachments, one being another vice.
Reply:Cell phone picture taken today to show where I'm at with the table. Attached Images
Reply:How are you hanging your clamps I have a post "Here's My Work Bench" check out my clamp hangerWell Looks good, And you will enjoy it for years to come. Vernon
Reply:I took a piece of perforated angle iron, slotted every other hole from the outside inward, and angled the edge up slightly to hold the clamp ends in place. Then I just took some flat stock and attached the ends of the angle iron to the underside of the table. I can get a closer pic tomorrow, but here's what I used.
Reply:A little late, but here's the pic. Attached Images
Reply:that's an interesting way of holding your clamps. I like it.Millermatic 135Syncrowave 250
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ooks good. I'd just about swear that was a 10 foot table from the pic if it weren't for the wall wrapped in aluminum(?).
Reply:The wall has 5' tall galvanized sheet metal. Lets me put my magnets on there and doesn't get the drywall destroyed from me throwing things around on the table. I think I'm finally done with the table now. Finished up the catch pan today and mounted it up. There's two 1/2" pins towards the front that the pan slides onto, and in then I leverage it up in the rear where a gate latch keep it locked up. I had to notch the pan around the angle iron that holds the grate up. Attached Images
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an is too shallow or needs a vent. Otherwise you will be wearing lots of sparks.My name's not Jim....
Reply:The main goal was to keep sparks from wrecking the floor, so it should do that job at least. I don't do too much plasma cutting so if I have to take one for the team now and then, then I'll just suck it up and run for the sink once I'm on fire. Pan dimensions are roughly 18 x 21 x 6 for reference. If I have to later throw a couple diagonal slats in there to deflect the sparks, I'll do that at that point.
Reply:The air blowing sparks back out at you is what I would worry about. Test it out, grab a blow gun and make like you're cutting something. At school we had a real deep funnel under the cutting table with a pan that sat beneath it on the floor. There was a gap in between to let all the air escape. Seemed to work pretty good.My name's not Jim....
Reply:How do you like the Everlast welder?
Reply:It welds just as nice as some Lincolns and Millers I used at my last job. The foot pedal and torch are the only things I liked on the other models more.
Reply:HI 91TI have a PM256 everlast I built a new foot controller for it if you want plans for it PM me.I made it lower to the floor too.have funtom Attached Images
