Arc weld
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Welding table build
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CDN Farm Boy
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Built the saw stand, mountable either direction as guessed earlier:
Extendable support with height adjustment (which still needs a bit of work)
Cutting area built:
Extendable support with height adjustment (which still needs a bit of work)
Cutting area built:
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What is the size of the cutting table? I like the diagonals, but might that ever be a drawback when cutting flatstock square to he table? What a great setup; I really like all the feature you have incorporated into it.
farmer2009
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Looking good. Why use flat bar in cutting area on angle. I always seen angle iron used for that.
Underdog57
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The saw stands are awesome!
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CDN Farm Boy
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Thanks for the compliments.
The cutting area is 34" x 48" for an overall table size of 4' x 8' There's a 2" gap between the cutting area and the main table if I need to square cut anything.
Of all the tables I found while searching, I didn't once see one built with angle for the cutting area, all of them used flat stock. Not that they don't exist, I just didn't find any. Most of the CNC tables use flat stock bent into some form of an 'S' shape to eliminate the chance of a straight cut landing on top of a slat.
I had 4 reasons to build it on the diagonal:
1. The chance of a straight cut landing directly on top of one slat is almost ziltch.
2. When building stuff, narrow or on-edge pieces are more likely supported by multiple slats than falling in between them.
3. I've got a 2" overhang on the other 3 sides of the table and if I ran the slats straight, I wouldn't have the 2" overhang on the end.
4. I hadn't seen one built on the diagonal yet and wanted to be different
I still have to do something better for a bottom shelf, the OSB was handy and happened to be exactly the right size to fit between the legs and center support.
The cutting area is 34" x 48" for an overall table size of 4' x 8' There's a 2" gap between the cutting area and the main table if I need to square cut anything.
Of all the tables I found while searching, I didn't once see one built with angle for the cutting area, all of them used flat stock. Not that they don't exist, I just didn't find any. Most of the CNC tables use flat stock bent into some form of an 'S' shape to eliminate the chance of a straight cut landing on top of a slat.
I had 4 reasons to build it on the diagonal:
1. The chance of a straight cut landing directly on top of one slat is almost ziltch.
2. When building stuff, narrow or on-edge pieces are more likely supported by multiple slats than falling in between them.
3. I've got a 2" overhang on the other 3 sides of the table and if I ran the slats straight, I wouldn't have the 2" overhang on the end.
4. I hadn't seen one built on the diagonal yet and wanted to be different
I still have to do something better for a bottom shelf, the OSB was handy and happened to be exactly the right size to fit between the legs and center support.
muddstopper
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You might consider building a water box to go under the cutting table. It will help keep slag and hot sparks from flying around when using the plasma.
