mini welding table

[Mark @ Everlast]

If you want to "buy" one...Everlast has a new one coming out and has an existing one. The old one has a tilting table. The new one is adjustable height and is a pack and go type.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

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[ArlyA]

Been using my mini table and LOVING it. Everlast tables look nice but mine is heavy but with its rim-n-round base I can still move it around.

 

[BukitCase]

Good choice on the reversible vise; I have the Wilton it was copied from, it ended up under my MDVT (MagDrillViseTable) - on the back side is a Grizzly XY table with a couple HF DP vises - gives me a lot of options and lightning fast holes of nearly any size.

Last 2 pics show adding 1/2" flat bar to the 10" channel and surfacing so the mag drill has more magnetic holding power... Steve

 

[Smokeydog]

Like to see a dedicated thread on just mag drill use.

Have a Milwaukee fabricator mag drill with adjustable base. F/R, variable speed used for tapping after drilling. Sure has helped a DIY shop repair and fabricate.

 

[ArlyA]

Like to see a dedicated thread on just mag drill use.

Have a Milwaukee fabricator mag drill with adjustable base. F/R, variable speed used for tapping after drilling. Sure has helped a DIY shop repair and fabricate.

Just start one.

 

[Everhard]

BukitCase - how did you do the surfacing?

Thanks,
E.

 

[MTGreen]

BukitCase - how did you do the surfacing?

Thanks,
E.

Sure looks like a job with an indexable face mill or a fly cutter on a milling machine

 

[BukitCase]

MTG nailed it -

10" x 32" 2 HP HD Mill/Drill with Stand and Power my millFeed at Grizzly.com

BTW, that unit has gone up a bit since I bought it, I paid right at $3k

I didn't have any thick plate, so used multiple pieces of 1/2 x 3 FB, beveled edges, then (mostly) welded "proud" then fly cut til flat... Steve

 

[California]

I just saw an interesting video on weld distortion, clamping, and how an assumed 'flat' welding table won't make flat welds.

They're trying to sell their expensive massive table so that's their emphasis. But the lesson we can learn watching, is that distortion is near impossible to eliminate entirely.

You won't miss anything jumping around in this video, or ignoring the middle third entirely. Their main point is that among the three pro welders they went to, none controlled distortion sufficiently to meet the specs they were given.