alexcrosse
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Last year I built a shed in the garden so I could move my car building exploits closer to home in an attempt to juggle new born twins and an obsession with fabrication, oh and a job. Its not too much smaller than the yard I was in previously, but I've been conscious to make the space work better.
A friend of mine in the US, who welds a lot better than me, has a nice wheel around fixture table, great for doing big components, because you can hang stuff off any edge of the table. You can also obviously wheel it out the way or in different positions to make space work well. So this was the plan, make one, plop wheels on, put my welders underneath, job done. The welder would be OK underneath because its not for dirty work, cutting and such, I've got a scabby bench for all that.
First step, design a table. Drew this all up, 5x3ft, 100mm spaced 16mm holes, cant beat mixing imperial and metric, right? Heritage. Jokes aside its 1500 x 900.
Got this all laser cut at my local place, LS in Basildon, absolute top guys. At the same time I gave my old roll over jig to a friend who replaced the material with fresh 50x50 box. All set.
Apologies, this is where I deviate from the norm a little. Here's a video of me building the table.
Chicken and egg issues, trying to make a flat table without a flat table to work on. But the design made it come out quite well. It's already proving really useful, great to be able to roll it around, nice to have somewhere to sit down too... Need to make some fixture clamps and finish welding all the tabs, but I'll end it there. Hope people enjoy it, if anyone wants the files I'm happy to share.
I'll add some more garage stuff soon. I'm restoring a Meddings M4 at the moment and this forum has been an absolute god send for information on that. Also once that's set up I've got some Ti TIG learning to do so may share my failures.
Alex.
A friend of mine in the US, who welds a lot better than me, has a nice wheel around fixture table, great for doing big components, because you can hang stuff off any edge of the table. You can also obviously wheel it out the way or in different positions to make space work well. So this was the plan, make one, plop wheels on, put my welders underneath, job done. The welder would be OK underneath because its not for dirty work, cutting and such, I've got a scabby bench for all that.
First step, design a table. Drew this all up, 5x3ft, 100mm spaced 16mm holes, cant beat mixing imperial and metric, right? Heritage. Jokes aside its 1500 x 900.
Got this all laser cut at my local place, LS in Basildon, absolute top guys. At the same time I gave my old roll over jig to a friend who replaced the material with fresh 50x50 box. All set.
Apologies, this is where I deviate from the norm a little. Here's a video of me building the table.
Chicken and egg issues, trying to make a flat table without a flat table to work on. But the design made it come out quite well. It's already proving really useful, great to be able to roll it around, nice to have somewhere to sit down too... Need to make some fixture clamps and finish welding all the tabs, but I'll end it there. Hope people enjoy it, if anyone wants the files I'm happy to share.
I'll add some more garage stuff soon. I'm restoring a Meddings M4 at the moment and this forum has been an absolute god send for information on that. Also once that's set up I've got some Ti TIG learning to do so may share my failures.
Alex.