Welding table top?

   / Welding table top? #31  
What, no 'after' pics? I guess you don't like taking pictures. :)
Yeah... com'm SA, we want to see 'no gap' pics. I don't care if you have only been doing this for a couple plus weeks.
 
   / Welding table top? #32  
Don't know why I don't take pictures of the item when completed:confused:. I guess I'm just interested in showing the technique. Knowing where to apply the heat is easy, how much heat is the trick.
Here's one I lucked out on:D. When I built my gooseneck adapter the one beam was not 90-degrees. So a little heated wedge, brought it back to 90-degrees.;)
 

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   / Welding table top? #33  
Check out Tab and Slot certiflat tables. Cool stuff. Looking at one for my next table.
 
   / Welding table top? #34  
Has something changed in the way steel plate is made? At one time I had a job in a Long Beach fabricating plant that took large coils of steel weighing tons, and ran them through huge machines to flatten and cut into plate. I can still remember the piles of cut plate, they certainly did not have 1/4" dips.
 
   / Welding table top? #35  
All metal will bend from its own weight, it's just a matter of how much and how you support it.
 
   / Welding table top? #37  
Has something changed in the way steel plate is made? At one time I had a job in a Long Beach fabricating plant that took large coils of steel weighing tons, and ran them through huge machines to flatten and cut into plate. I can still remember the piles of cut plate, they certainly did not have 1/4" dips.
Stretcher leveling. Most of the time, it's excellent. But some steel gets away with residual stresses that leveling can't correct.
 

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