Reman
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I'm thinking about making a ghetto welding table with some 100x50mm box section, And something just occurred to me.
I'm thinking that a good size for the top (Taking into account available space) would be 120cm long by 75ish cm deep. I was calculating roughly how much metal I'd need depending on the direction the slats ran (Strangely, it's different depending on which way I have the slats running. It's 6.75 meters of stock if I have them going front to back, or 7.20 meters if I have the slats going left to right). But then I started thinking. I don't think I've ever seen one of these steel box section DIY welding tables made with the slat's running lengthways along the table. Why is that?
I've been pondering the reason for a couple of hours now. I'd think having the slats running left to right would make it more ridged, The options for clamping through slots won't be changed that much, and in my case it would only need about 2/3rds of the welded joints. The only thing that I can see that would favour front to back slats would be that work would usually go length ways along the table, So if you were working on something narrow it would be more likely to slip through the gaps, But is that it, or is there some other reason I haven't thought about?
I'm thinking that a good size for the top (Taking into account available space) would be 120cm long by 75ish cm deep. I was calculating roughly how much metal I'd need depending on the direction the slats ran (Strangely, it's different depending on which way I have the slats running. It's 6.75 meters of stock if I have them going front to back, or 7.20 meters if I have the slats going left to right). But then I started thinking. I don't think I've ever seen one of these steel box section DIY welding tables made with the slat's running lengthways along the table. Why is that?
I've been pondering the reason for a couple of hours now. I'd think having the slats running left to right would make it more ridged, The options for clamping through slots won't be changed that much, and in my case it would only need about 2/3rds of the welded joints. The only thing that I can see that would favour front to back slats would be that work would usually go length ways along the table, So if you were working on something narrow it would be more likely to slip through the gaps, But is that it, or is there some other reason I haven't thought about?