Best Deal on a welding table

[OnlyStihl]

Under a $100 24x36 1/8 top, with casters. No fixture clamps or pins like you would get with a HF Titanium table or a Klutch table. But the deal allows you to buy those essentials at a higher quality with the difference saved.

Mine is to show up next week. My smaller folding metal table is great compared to welding on the floor, but an upgrade was due.

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[Sloughfoot]

That's tempting. 24x36 plate alone would cost that at the scrap yard here.

 

[OnlyStihl]

I went to an estate sale this morning. A 4'x8' 1/4 sheet of steel is being sold for $110. Tempting, but not sure what I would use it for.

Good Price? Might have to buy it and just keep it in stock. Sale all day til this Sunday. Hmmmmmm....

 

[OnlyStihl]

That's tempting. 24x36 plate alone would cost that at the scrap yard here.

I've been looking at the same sold by Harbor Freight and the Klutch version. Identical as I can tell but more than twice the cost, but they come with some fixture clamps, block and pins. Mixed reviews on the fixture accessories.

 

[OnlyStihl]

Going thru my scraps this morning. Looks like I have a good candidate thin gauge sheet of steel for a shelf under the table top, and some scraps to make brackets for hanging clamps and vises and such.

 

[Sloughfoot]

I imagine it'll need to be shored up with a few well placed welds. Heat may warp the .120 top too. Some of the high dollar welding tables have a lot going on under the top to keep them true. With doing all that it's still well worth $75. If I didn't have my eye on a new foredom I'd get one too.

 

[OnlyStihl]

I went to an estate sale this morning. A 4'x8' 1/4 sheet of steel is being sold for $110. Tempting, but not sure what I would use it for.

Good Price? Might have to buy it and just keep it in stock. Sale all day til this Sunday. Hmmmmmm....

I offered $75 for the sheet of steel. Maybe I'll hear that the piece did not sell, and I can buy it. Still have no idea what I might do with such a thing. Maybe I'll just store it for a decade or two.

 

[Sloughfoot]

I offered $75 for the sheet of steel. Maybe I'll hear that the piece did not sell, and I can buy it. Still have no idea what I might do with such a thing. Maybe I'll just store it for a decade or two.

I'd get it.

 

[Bill G]

I hope it works out for you but that is not a welding table. It is thin sheet metal table that will warp, bend, and not withstand hammering. Use it now and set aside some coins to buy a good piece of plate and build a table. Get a piece of .750 or 1.0 plate that will make a solid top to a good table that will last a lifetime.

 

[OnlyStihl]

I hope it works out for you but that is not a welding table. It is thin sheet metal table that will warp, bend, and not withstand hammering. Use it now and set aside some coins to buy a good piece of plate and build a table. Get a piece of .750 or 1.0 plate that will make a solid top to a good table that will last a lifetime.

OMG, what about buying a metal fabrication shop and have NO limitations? If I'm going to get serious about welding, say once a week or every other week, a shop like below would work, right?

 

[Moparmyway]

I’ve already bent one of my Strong Hands portable tables in the middle, and that’s trying to be delicate with it. For a welding table with fixture intentions, I’d agree that the 0.125 one is way too thin. Even 1/4” is thin if fixturing is in its future

 

[Al Smith]

I've got one I made with 3/8" plate steel and a welded pipe base using scafalding wheels to move around .I also have a machine base I got from work on a scrap pass,free . It's 1"_ plate 4 by 6 and the whole thing weighs about a ton .I can use that for one a large anvil if I wanted to .That one obviously I don't move .

 

[Lions fan]

I went to an estate sale this morning. A 4'x8' 1/4 sheet of steel is being sold for $110. Tempting, but not sure what I would use it for.

Good Price? Might have to buy it and just keep it in stock. Sale all day til this Sunday. Hmmmmmm....

Lot of flat stock in a 4'x8' plate.

 

[Al Smith]

To further elaborate the portable table probabley weighs 4- 5oo pounds .I also used it for forming sheet metal .Being an old school kind of guy I hand formed my entire heating/cooling HVAC duct system using 26 sheets of 24 gauge galvenized sheet metal .Took me the best part of one summer to do it using that table and a home built sheet metal break .Makes sense if they could do it in 1930 you could do it in 1996 .All it takes is the ingenuity and a book on how to form sheet metal .--childs play .

 

[OnlyStihl]

I've got one I made with 3/8" plate steel and a welded pipe base using scafalding wheels to move around .I also have a machine base I got from work on a scrap pass,free . It's 1"_ plate 4 by 6 and the whole thing weighs about a ton .I can use that for one a large anvil if I wanted to .That one obviously I don't move .

I'm limited by space. To do any welding requires me to move a lot of stuff around. I finished up my log splitter bracket project yesterday. Took about 4 hours, and 1 of the 4 was rearranging and moving stuff. A real PITA. The very idea of a 4'x6' 1 ton bench is DOA for me. Simply not even an option.

 

[OnlyStihl]

I’ve already bent one of my Strong Hands portable tables in the middle, and that’s trying to be delicate with it. For a welding table with fixture intentions, I’d agree that the 0.125 one is way too thin. Even 1/4” is thin if fixturing is in its future

Welding on my existing metal table is done with caution. I'll tack weld on the table. Final welding is either suspended or hanging off the side of the table.

 

[Sloughfoot]

I'm limited by space. To do any welding requires me to move a lot of stuff around. I finished up my log splitter bracket project yesterday. Took about 4 hours, and 1 of the 4 was rearranging and moving stuff. A real PITA. The very idea of a 4'x6' 1 ton bench is DOA for me. Simply not even an option.

I'm kind of limited on space myself. What I keep an eye out for is a just big enough and thick enough sheet that's around 3'x3' and at least 1/2". that I can throw on top of a table or saw horses.

 

[Al Smith]

If it not for the mess I have at my shop which is 60 by 70 I have plenty of room .My garage at my home,22 miles from my shop it can be a problem .My garage has an old buzz box my dad had that came over on the Mayflower I think .My dad was a good mechanic but not so much as an electrician .I had to rewire that thing before it cooked me .

 

[Al Smith]

As general conversation a table is nice if you are laying something out you need to be precise about .For general repairs you can get by without one .Fact that old Marquett buzz box my dad had does just fine I would not try to use it doing exray quality work but it does just fine on others .That thing has so much copper in it it doesn't need a cooling fan and weighs a bloody ton .They just don't make them like that any more .

 

[OnlyStihl]

Not too bad. Even with the crappy metal table. LOL