It's time I started showing some of what I have been doing the last month. Thanks to the new medication I have been taking for FMS I have been able to work at full capacity and have undertaken a major project, long overdue, to renovate and improve my garage shop.
It has been a summer time shop only due to lack of insulation and heat. More on that later. One of the projects that I have been working on is a proper welding table for the "new" shop.
With the exception of the table top it is made almost entirely from scrap metal. Most of it is thinwall square tubing given to me by a good friend. It was originally used in the shipping frames for snowmobiles and he saves the pieces, all of which are either 2" sq or 3/4" square thinwall stock.
This is what I came up with. All exterior welds are ground. I used both gas and arc welding because of the .063 tubing. Extra rigidity is provided by the shelf unit and the triangulation braces. The top is a new sheet of 1/4" mild steel plate, cost $150 cdn inc. cutting charge. The shelf is a sheet of high density particle board with a sheet of Formica for fire resistance. The shelf has several cross supports not visible under it.
Note the sheet of galvanized flashing on the gyprock wall to provide fire resistance. Also, the location between the main doors and the man door provides excellent ventilation in summer. I am building a fume extraction hood to go over it for winter use.
This next pic shows the adjustable feet. They may be adjusted to provide a table height of 33" to 38". They also provide much of the column bending strength in the table legs as they are heavywall tubing that extends to nearly the top of the legs inside.
Mounted on the table is my English Record vise. I wanted to be able to swivel it and make it easy to remove. The vise is mounted to a plate that is tapped for the vise mounting bolts. The plate is bolted to the table top using a grade "16" fine thread 1/2" bolt with a large backup plate on the underside. It is able to clamp the vise securely in any position in a full circle or it may be removed easily for an unobstructed table.
Also included is a pin for connecting the ground clamp to the table.
It has been a summer time shop only due to lack of insulation and heat. More on that later. One of the projects that I have been working on is a proper welding table for the "new" shop.
With the exception of the table top it is made almost entirely from scrap metal. Most of it is thinwall square tubing given to me by a good friend. It was originally used in the shipping frames for snowmobiles and he saves the pieces, all of which are either 2" sq or 3/4" square thinwall stock.
This is what I came up with. All exterior welds are ground. I used both gas and arc welding because of the .063 tubing. Extra rigidity is provided by the shelf unit and the triangulation braces. The top is a new sheet of 1/4" mild steel plate, cost $150 cdn inc. cutting charge. The shelf is a sheet of high density particle board with a sheet of Formica for fire resistance. The shelf has several cross supports not visible under it.
Note the sheet of galvanized flashing on the gyprock wall to provide fire resistance. Also, the location between the main doors and the man door provides excellent ventilation in summer. I am building a fume extraction hood to go over it for winter use.
This next pic shows the adjustable feet. They may be adjusted to provide a table height of 33" to 38". They also provide much of the column bending strength in the table legs as they are heavywall tubing that extends to nearly the top of the legs inside.
Mounted on the table is my English Record vise. I wanted to be able to swivel it and make it easy to remove. The vise is mounted to a plate that is tapped for the vise mounting bolts. The plate is bolted to the table top using a grade "16" fine thread 1/2" bolt with a large backup plate on the underside. It is able to clamp the vise securely in any position in a full circle or it may be removed easily for an unobstructed table.
Also included is a pin for connecting the ground clamp to the table.
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