Splatter on the welding table.

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What do you guys do about splatter on your welding tables?  I need a smooth flat surface to even up all the parts i weld but with all the splatter parts sit uneven and im constantly grinding it away.  Is there a trick to it?
Reply:The trick is as big a grinder you can handle We grind em down after every piece... it's the only way.Sent from my Kindle Fire using TapatalkMiller Maxstar 200 DX - Syncrowave 200 - MillerMatic 200 - Bobcat 225 NT - Spoolmate 3035/SGA 1003 X Lincoln Power MIGs (200, 215XT 255)3 X Lincoln SP's (100, 125, 130)Thermal Arc 181i (spool gun and TIG torch)HT Powermax 1000 G3
Reply:A cup stone on your grinder, and really lean on it. Works like a floor buffer. If all you have is a 41/2 grinder be careful you dont overheat it. 7in grinders can take it a little better, but the smaller grinders will wor as well.I hate being bi-polar it's awsomeMy Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Reply:I use a 9" grinder with a thread on wheel. Lay it flat on the table and polish it up.
Reply:After getting it cleaned up again, coat it good with Weld-Kleen #2. It's an anti spatter spray made to go on mig gun tips to keep'em clean so spatter don't stick to them too bad. If it works on the mig gun it will work on the table top. A little preventive medicine in the first place. Find it at the LWS.
Reply:Anti splatter. It's at your LWS.
Reply:Non stick cooking spray..At the supermarket..Cheap.. and the butter flavor smells awful when it gets warm.....zap!I am not completely insane..Some parts are missing Professional Driver on a closed course....Do not attempt.Just because I'm a  dumbass don't mean that you can be too.So DON'T try any of this **** l do at home.
Reply:Originally Posted by zapsterNon stick cooking spray..At the supermarket..Cheap.. and the butter flavor smells awful when it gets warm.....zap!
Reply:Originally Posted by WeldingMachineIt's just awful!  Now I want popcorn, dammit!
Reply:I haven't tried any anti-stick on my table.  I usually use a 4 1/2" flap wheel and gently remove the nibs.. I don't like the idea of gouging the surface.  My 1/2" steel table top has a nice dark patina that seems to prevent rust. Occasionally I spray some light penetrating oil and then wipe it with a paper towel.  Of course, the table usually has about 2 feet of junk piled on it that all has to be removed to use the table for its intended purpose.Miller Syncrowave 350Millermatic 252/ 30A spoolgunMiller Bobcat 225g w/ 3545 spoolgunLincoln PowerArc4000Lincoln 175 Mig  Lincoln 135 Mig Everlast 250EX TigCentury ac/dc 230 amp stickVictor O/AHypertherm 1000 plasma
Reply:Originally Posted by DougAustinTXI haven't tried any anti-stick on my table.  I usually use a 4 1/2" flap wheel and gently remove the nibs.. I don't like the idea of gouging the surface.  My 1/2" steel table top has a nice dark patina that seems to prevent rust. Occasionally I spray some light penetrating oil and then wipe it with a paper towel.  Of course, the table usually has about 2 feet of junk piled on it that all has to be removed to use the table for its intended purpose.
Reply:A cup stone on your grinder, and really lean on it.
Reply:I welded for twenty five years on the same 5 by 10 by 1/2 inch table and ground it every day. You just have to keep that grinder flat.  If you grind a groove in it, it will be there forever. In all that time I don't think it was even a 64th of an inch thinner.  Mac
Reply:My welding table actually has an interesting history.  It was built and used by the FX crew that did the movie The Alamo with Billy Bob Thornton.  I heard they made the mortars etc for the cannon and explosion effects on it.  When they finished the movie, it was sold off to a guy that I bought it from west of Austin.  They used 4x4 tubing for the legs and supports.Miller Syncrowave 350Millermatic 252/ 30A spoolgunMiller Bobcat 225g w/ 3545 spoolgunLincoln PowerArc4000Lincoln 175 Mig  Lincoln 135 Mig Everlast 250EX TigCentury ac/dc 230 amp stickVictor O/AHypertherm 1000 plasma
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Reply:Using a chipping hammer or cold chisel to knock off the chunks then grinding is less. Flap or sanding disk is less aggressive. Zap: PAM??? seriously works???200amp Air Liquide MIG, Hypertherm Plasma, Harris torches, Optrel helmet, Makita angle grinders, Pre-China Delta chop saw and belt sander, Miller leathers, shop made jigs etc, North- welders backpack.
Reply:i dont run wirefeed all that much, but the anti-spatter we get at work seems to work really well when i do-seems like most of it wipes right off with a rag.as far as what Zap said...ive always kinda wondered about the cooking spray, i'll have to try that one.(our anti-spatter smells like fishsticks to me!)
Reply:Anti spatter spray for MIG, then scrape with 2' of 2" flat stock, grind if needed. With the spatter spray most of the spatter just scrapes off."Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum"Lincoln Idealarc 250 AC/DCMillermatic 251   Syncrowave 300   30A spoolgunLincoln MP210Hypertherm 45(2) LN 25(2) Lincoln Weldanpower 225 CV(4) SA200   1 short hood    SA250    SAM 400
Reply:Originally Posted by Tool MakerI welded for twenty five years on the same 5 by 10 by 1/2 inch table and ground it every day. You just have to keep that grinder flat.  If you grind a groove in it, it will be there forever. In all that time I don't think it was even a 64th of an inch thinner.  Mac
Reply:Originally Posted by DougAustinTXI haven't tried any anti-stick on my table.  I usually use a 4 1/2" flap wheel and gently remove the nibs.. I don't like the idea of gouging the surface.  My 1/2" steel table top has a nice dark patina that seems to prevent rust. Occasionally I spray some light penetrating oil and then wipe it with a paper towel.  Of course, the table usually has about 2 feet of junk piled on it that all has to be removed to use the table for its intended purpose.
Reply:Nothing beats these... (seriously)flat face, push it flat against the table and in a few full-width passes it looks blanchard ground. Get a rubber backing pad one, the hard plastic ones are useless. I got a dewalt one at home depot. Better than a sandpaper flap disc for any situation too. These things are indispensable, honestly one of the best 'tools' I have ever bought . 36 grit is the best all around.Last edited by MikeGyver; 04-01-2012 at 03:53 AM.Welding/Fab Pics: www.UtahWeld.com
Reply:i use a flap disk in my table, removes splatter but doesnt cut into table.
Reply:Thanks for the tips guys!  I sprayed down the table with my wife's PAM cooking spray and 80% of the splatter wipes right off.  Now it seems i'll only have to grind every now and then.
Reply:This is why tables used to be made from cast iron.  The spatter doesn't stick to cast iron.
Reply:Originally Posted by matty23(our anti-spatter smells like fishsticks to me!)Why is everyone saying spLatter? it's spatter...Welding/Fab Pics: www.UtahWeld.com
Reply:they have something stuck to their tongue !!
Reply:Originally Posted by MikeGyverNothing beats these... (seriously)flat face, push it flat against the table and in a few full-width passes it looks blanchard ground. Get a rubber backing pad one, the hard plastic ones are useless. I got a dewalt one at home depot. Better than a sandpaper flap disc for any situation too. These things are indispensable, honestly one of the best 'tools' I have ever bought . 36 grit is the best all around.
Reply:I coated my table with blue dykem. Spatter for the most part seems to roll right off.
Reply:Originally Posted by GBMWorksI coated my table with blue dykem. Spatter for the most part seems to roll right off.
Reply:I tried spraying all the parts I'm welding with PAM,  and it did away with 90 % of the splatters i was getting from flux core welding that landed on the parts.It had no problem welding through the PAM and keeping the outer areas free from splatter. has anyone tried this?
Reply:The coolest solution is to use a powder torch to cover the whole table in copper. Then polish it with your favorite flap wheel. Not cheap but seriously cool. Saw a Eutectic salesman that did it to his small portable demo table. Myself, I have a cast iron table and a steel table that gets ground with a rock and sprayed with anti spatter.Lincolin Power Wave 450, Lincoln Powermig 255, Lincoln Pro Mig 140, Lincoln Squarewave Tig 275, Miller Big 40 G(with Hobart Hefty suitcase), Thermal Arc 95S and Esab PCM875 in an already full machine shop.
Reply:Originally Posted by DougAustinTXMy welding table actually has an interesting history.  It was built and used by the FX crew that did the movie The Alamo with Billy Bob Thornton.  I heard they made the mortars etc for the cannon and explosion effects on it.  When they finished the movie, it was sold off to a guy that I bought it from west of Austin.  They used 4x4 tubing for the legs and supports.
Reply:Hah!   Probably BOTH of us! Miller Syncrowave 350Millermatic 252/ 30A spoolgunMiller Bobcat 225g w/ 3545 spoolgunLincoln PowerArc4000Lincoln 175 Mig  Lincoln 135 Mig Everlast 250EX TigCentury ac/dc 230 amp stickVictor O/AHypertherm 1000 plasma
Reply:Originally Posted by MikeGyverNothing beats these... (seriously)flat face, push it flat against the table and in a few full-width passes it looks blanchard ground. Get a rubber backing pad one, the hard plastic ones are useless. I got a dewalt one at home depot. Better than a sandpaper flap disc for any situation too. These things are indispensable, honestly one of the best 'tools' I have ever bought . 36 grit is the best all around.
Reply:Those discussion remind me some bad souvenir, i've always work on 4' X 20' X 3/4  table, and i always learn to grind it with a cup 7inch grinder disc after each realling or job, some guys don't do it but if i don't clean my table after my job i will feel as the same if i don't take my shower before working on the morning haha, when i start working at the place i work now, my fitting table was really horrible, the guy before was "disc cutting" or torch cutting directly on the table and my table was so greasy, (Note: put pieces that you just cutted with all the cutting fluid directly on the table) i wasn't able to mark something with chalk on my table, i had to wash it with thinner 2 or 3 times!i don't think its "agressive" for the table to grind it with a cup disc, with a flat disc its remove more material its true but its depend on what kind of table you work, if you work in your garage with a 1/4 thick table its different!Calculator > Bevel Square
Reply:Thats not spatter, those are surface seeds, feed em a little iron on a regular basis and before you know they bloom leaving you a new table top.When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.
Reply:lol ha
Reply:I use what the guy I got it from called a 'coolie hat'. Its 9" & cupped. Is this a cupped stone??It sure works good. -corne- Attached Images
Reply:aperantly I am doing some thing wrong here, as  99% of the time jsut a light dusting with the 4 1/2" grinder flat will knock off the spatter I get,  but many times I jsut use the chipping hammer and knock them off as well, I can see the larger the wheel the flatter and the less likly one is to gouge or polish out a dip in the top in time, I have yet to ever think of needing to use the 9" and bear down on it, yes I have seen some tops that would need an agressive grinding to make usable.