MRCONCDID
Silver Member
Everyone has one or at least some place to work, well I have desided to stop working on the floor and make-over my shop this winter starting with moving my stand up compressor outside and running hard air lines around the outer walls and building a new welding table.
I got lucky the other day at the scrap yard and picked up a 6ftx6ft 1/2 steel sheet along with some thick wall 2x2 angle.
I have some 4x4 1/4 wall box for the legs and the angle for horizonal supports and framework then I will cut down the plate to 6ft x 5ft and attach for the top.I will be working on 3 sides of this table one side against the wall
Some of the things I have been thinking about are;
Adding casters to roll the table out into a bay for larger projects like bending tubing.
insetting the legs 6 inches all the way around, so not to get in the way of c-clamps and the mounting of a vise
Runing electric up through the middle of the table top in conduit to a double sideds outlet box to plug in grinders and saws ect.
buliding a swing out seat from underneath the table soulds like overkill but i dont have any stools yet and would be handy when welding something on the table.
I would love to hear from everone on there shop tables and how you have customized them. thanks
Oh in keeping with my cheap canopy project,so far i have less than 80bucks in the table.
I got lucky the other day at the scrap yard and picked up a 6ftx6ft 1/2 steel sheet along with some thick wall 2x2 angle.
I have some 4x4 1/4 wall box for the legs and the angle for horizonal supports and framework then I will cut down the plate to 6ft x 5ft and attach for the top.I will be working on 3 sides of this table one side against the wall
Some of the things I have been thinking about are;
Adding casters to roll the table out into a bay for larger projects like bending tubing.
insetting the legs 6 inches all the way around, so not to get in the way of c-clamps and the mounting of a vise
Runing electric up through the middle of the table top in conduit to a double sideds outlet box to plug in grinders and saws ect.
buliding a swing out seat from underneath the table soulds like overkill but i dont have any stools yet and would be handy when welding something on the table.
I would love to hear from everone on there shop tables and how you have customized them. thanks
Oh in keeping with my cheap canopy project,so far i have less than 80bucks in the table.