Cris B
Every day welding is a school day
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Back in November '23 I made this to tidy up a corner of the garage. It currently has two engines and gearboxes underneath it (I don't know if I should be proud of the fact I have a n+1 approach to cars and engines, but there we go). It was built out of some recycled 6mm angle iron and some newer box section and was design to let me mount the work top off my Classic 78 roll cab that I have mounted into my main workbench.
After remodelling the shed and improving storage, I have created a work area and have repurposed the Snap On roll cab top as a dedicated bench top. So this meant the table was going to be topless, unless I did something about it. I decided that I wanted to create a dedicated welding and fabrication area for the long term so it was time to get serious. I worked with Dunk Lamont from 7050PS to finalise a design for my new table top.
Based up in Dundee, he's far from local but I had long admired his portable welding tables and other offerings so knew he was more than capable of doing the business. He pulled out all the stops to secure a great price on shipping and within a very reasonable timeframe a half pallet with the laser cut table top arrived from Scotland. Needed a hand from my sons to lift it up onto the table and then machined it to fit mounting bolts.
10mm thickness with 16mm diameter holes on 100mm centres. Sanded down and repainted the top part of the bench before mounting, but not the legs (yet).
In addition, I want to incorporate my TIG setup into the bench. Many years ago I made a TIG trolley, but wasn't happy with it so abandoned that project and scrapped most of it, with the exception of the gas bottle and TIG rod holder section that I made (the rods sit in capped 50mm diameter PVC tubes and the gas bottle is secured with a 2" wide heavy duty velcro strap. That's now been incorporated onto the left hand side and already has dust on it!
I need to make a lower shelf for the gas bottle to sit on. That'll be detachable from the table, so I'll use some weld-in threaded bosses for that. That's the next job (hence not painting the legs yet) and then I'll have a think about where the TIG's going to go....
After remodelling the shed and improving storage, I have created a work area and have repurposed the Snap On roll cab top as a dedicated bench top. So this meant the table was going to be topless, unless I did something about it. I decided that I wanted to create a dedicated welding and fabrication area for the long term so it was time to get serious. I worked with Dunk Lamont from 7050PS to finalise a design for my new table top.
Based up in Dundee, he's far from local but I had long admired his portable welding tables and other offerings so knew he was more than capable of doing the business. He pulled out all the stops to secure a great price on shipping and within a very reasonable timeframe a half pallet with the laser cut table top arrived from Scotland. Needed a hand from my sons to lift it up onto the table and then machined it to fit mounting bolts.
10mm thickness with 16mm diameter holes on 100mm centres. Sanded down and repainted the top part of the bench before mounting, but not the legs (yet).
In addition, I want to incorporate my TIG setup into the bench. Many years ago I made a TIG trolley, but wasn't happy with it so abandoned that project and scrapped most of it, with the exception of the gas bottle and TIG rod holder section that I made (the rods sit in capped 50mm diameter PVC tubes and the gas bottle is secured with a 2" wide heavy duty velcro strap. That's now been incorporated onto the left hand side and already has dust on it!
I need to make a lower shelf for the gas bottle to sit on. That'll be detachable from the table, so I'll use some weld-in threaded bosses for that. That's the next job (hence not painting the legs yet) and then I'll have a think about where the TIG's going to go....
