Building a Welding Table????

[Ol Thumper]

This is what I'm referring to as cheese cut top, tons of different type of tooling/clamps you can buy or build yourself for locking down and holding your items. You can build jigs to fit the holes and make repeatable items without having to fight them and it makes building things SO much easier. Once you use one nothing else will ever compare IMO.

[sharkhunter]

1/2" makes a pretty nice table. We have some at work that are 3" thick. At the house though I just have a table out of 2x6 material with a 10ga top. Every couple of years I replace it. Works pretty good but I only do small projects at the house .

[PSD Ryan]

1/2" makes a pretty nice table. We have some at work that are 3" thick. At the house though I just have a table out of 2x6 material with a 10ga top. Every couple of years I replace it. Works pretty good but I only do small projects at the house .

My current table is a 5 x 4 piece of 3/8 sitting on top of my rolling tool box lol I stick my gun in the hole on one of those big 90 magnets

[kmitchl]

Some good ideas here. My table was developed over a period of time so there are many things I would do differently now. One thing I do that has worked well is mount an arbor with a 9" sanding disc under the table with a small work support shelf. The arbor is driven by a fractional HP motor and belt. When I need to bevel a cut I just flip the grinder on an get it done in 30 seconds rather than trying to hold and turn the piece with one hand while I use a hand grinder with the other. We're I building a table today I would mount a grinder under the bench with the sanding disc instead of the motor and belt.

[PSD Ryan]

Some good ideas here. My table was developed over a period of time so there are many things I would do differently now. One thing I do that has worked well is mount an arbor with a 9" sanding disc under the table with a small work support shelf. The arbor is driven by a fractional HP motor and belt. When I need to bevel a cut I just flip the grinder on an get it done in 30 seconds rather than trying to hold and turn the piece with one hand while I use a hand grinder with the other. We're I building a table today I would mount a grinder under the bench with the sanding disc instead of the motor and belt.

Interested in a pic of that

[hot_rod_eddie]

Coffee Table

This kind of fit this thread. Built a coffee table for the lobby at work. Not very difficult, but pretty cool.

[Texhoma]

Depending on your setup, here are my suggestions, some new, and some I agree with from previous: 3/16 should be 1/4+ unless it is free, definitely bolt the vice, put a shelf under the table for grinders, consumables, etc, leave a 2" overhang for clamping, and weld an upside down angle across the lip so things will not roll off, make sure casters have locks. I also like to attach a small inverted 'V' on the front of my table to have a place to hang my tig torch (you can cut it out of the angle on the front). I also weld 1" pipes on about a 30 degree angle on one side of my table to hold the different filler rods, bolt a chain to the side to hold Argon, CO2, Helium, etc. I am personally not a fan of tables that move because it always becomes a pain. Also, unless you are in a room with great ventilation, I would recommend installing a hood. Post a pic when done. Good luck

What he said.

[Geoff995]

Weld an up side down piece of angle iron down one side. it will keep round things such as pipe from rolling around during fabrication. I would bolt down the vise

The piece of angle is invaluable on a welding table.