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"Expanded metal mesh" actually... not splitting hairs or anything
Digit extracted I have started work on a new welding bench, nothing special just a 50mm x 50mm x 3mm frame with a 3mm top, open fronted so I can sit and Tig weld with the Mig, Tig and plasma cutter stored under the bench..
Gents, I am about to embark on a making a bench as my 1st welding project ….. (I thought making gates would be my 1st project BUT now I realise a bench must be !) I'm planning to use 50x50 box section & have managed to get some 10mm plate (6ft x 18" - 2 sheets) from my local metal scrap dealer. I was interested in the adjustable feet that appear in two of the benches in this thread …… do you have any more details of these please ?
They're just a stainless steel inverted shallow cup, filled with a rubber foot glued in. The extension is just a threaded rod of ~12mm. At the base of the leg is a nut welded on, and there's a locknut just below that. You just run the threaded rod up or down and lock it to suit. Maximum extension on these is about 100mm or so. I've run the extensions right back up into the legs on the small bench to create headroom for a pair of boxes under a shelf that's not present in these pics.Gents, I am about to embark on a making a bench as my 1st welding project ….. (I thought making gates would be my 1st project BUT now I realise a bench must be !) I'm planning to use 50x50 box section & have managed to get some 10mm plate (6ft x 18" - 2 sheets) from my local metal scrap dealer. I was interested in the adjustable feet that appear in two of the benches in this thread …… do you have any more details of these please ?
Aha; but then there's the matter of convenience and personal preference. I found I was fed up with the conventional wisdom of such heights and my 'dirty' bench' and its Paramo vice is probably a good 100mm higher than it would be recommended to be. I simply don't have to bend over to peer at work in the vice, nor bend over very much at all to do anything on the bench top.There's also the matter of workbench height - this may already have been said, but measure your elbow height, with your arm half raised. That height there, should be the height your vice should be at (the top thereof). Work from there to figure out the workbench height. I made mine about a metre IIRC.
Aha; but then there's the matter of convenience and personal preference. I found I was fed up with the conventional wisdom of such heights and my 'dirty' bench' and its Paramo vice is probably a good 100mm higher than it would be recommended to be. I simply don't have to bend over to peer at work in the vice, nor bend over very much at all to do anything on the bench top.
The main reason for the height being recommended at elbow height to the top of the vice goes back to the days when hand tools were used by craftsmen, rather than us butchers with our grinders
Funnily enough, I was looking at a pickup coil for the Yamaha, which somebody had made from scratch, very painstakingly on a rotating machine and I couldn't help thinking I could just make one for zero cost, a bit of mig weld filed down. I used to get my ear slapped if I couldn't file accurately, but that's been a few ears ago.elbow height to the top of the vice goes back to the days when hand tools were used by craftsmen, rather than us butchers with our grinders
so guys and gals, I was thinking of doing the adjustable foot thing on the benches I made buttttt is it not a hell of a lot of weight to put on such a small surface area!? Obviously you have gone from say a 50mm box section on the floor to a nut welded on. Has anyone found them "give" under heavy weight?
Filing at eye level? Crazy stuff! I use files a lot and was taught to do it correctly but I never have seen anyone using a file at eye level
have a look at a proper gunsmiths set up making new parts for old valuable guns involves a lot of file work to tight tolerances. When you file something in a vice you don't want to sticking out the side because it will vibrate about like crazy, you want to file with the vice jaws below the spot your working on .