hi gents.
I try to be as accurate as I can. I have a slatted welding table but it’s not super flat.
Took inspiration from the guy at Fireball Tool and how super attentive to detail he was. His welding table build isn’t on YouTube anymore though. But I think they still sell plans so you can have a butchers if you like.
It’s basically a table with lots of small plates all lined up. The interesting thing is the methods he uses. They are so simple but give amazing accuracy.
I’m going to do my version of his table but much cheaper.
I don’t have much space right now so rather than build my desired 4x8 table, I’ll have to make do with a 2x4.
Today, step 1 happened.
I picked up some 251 mm squared plates of 20mm thick steel, 8 off.
Hopefully next Friday, I’ll have them machined to 250mm square, each with 9x 10.7mm holes so I can tap them to 12mm later for fixturing and in a grid pattern with 100mm spacing, and 4 mounting holes for bolting to the frame.
These will be spaced 50mm from each other to allow for more clamping.
Once the machining is done, I’ll show you pics.
After that, I’ll be working on the bolts that will suspend the plates up off of the frame and allow for accurate adjustment.
Once that’s done, the frame will come (that’s the easy part)
Anyway, progress will be slow so bear with me.
Any ideas or whatever, please leave a comment.
For the mean time, here is a picture of the plates. I know it’s just metal, but I think they look damn sexy.
I try to be as accurate as I can. I have a slatted welding table but it’s not super flat.
Took inspiration from the guy at Fireball Tool and how super attentive to detail he was. His welding table build isn’t on YouTube anymore though. But I think they still sell plans so you can have a butchers if you like.
It’s basically a table with lots of small plates all lined up. The interesting thing is the methods he uses. They are so simple but give amazing accuracy.
I’m going to do my version of his table but much cheaper.
I don’t have much space right now so rather than build my desired 4x8 table, I’ll have to make do with a 2x4.
Today, step 1 happened.
I picked up some 251 mm squared plates of 20mm thick steel, 8 off.
Hopefully next Friday, I’ll have them machined to 250mm square, each with 9x 10.7mm holes so I can tap them to 12mm later for fixturing and in a grid pattern with 100mm spacing, and 4 mounting holes for bolting to the frame.
These will be spaced 50mm from each other to allow for more clamping.
Once the machining is done, I’ll show you pics.
After that, I’ll be working on the bolts that will suspend the plates up off of the frame and allow for accurate adjustment.
Once that’s done, the frame will come (that’s the easy part)
Anyway, progress will be slow so bear with me.
Any ideas or whatever, please leave a comment.
For the mean time, here is a picture of the plates. I know it’s just metal, but I think they look damn sexy.
