Justin Olson

I'm trying to get good ideas for how to setup my welding area. I would like to see benchs, ventilations, ect. I'm trying to decide if I want a solid welding bench, or something that I can bolt the parts down to. Also, what have people done to limit air drafts?

Regards,
Justin

.RTErnie

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Justin Olson

Please show me the tables you weld at. What are your favorite features? What do you wish you had as far as features?

Justin

Jon@ForcedFabllc.com

Steel topped table , preferably SS, a nice office chair and some sealed tubes to hold filler rods in, and maybe a drawer or somthing else to store supplies. a small rack/shelf to hold clamps and pliers. I also have a vice on the table thats small enough to move around. my table is ghetto as it gets but its just fine for small runs when i do production stuff, its only about 4x4 and i want to up grade to a 8x4 on casters.

Jon

manifoldmiketyson

best thing that i've worked on was a 4' x 4' x 2" aluminum plate with a steel frame. it was good for disapating heat and hamering stuff. you could probably get by with a 2' x 2' or two 1' x 2' pieces bolted together.

i'm working on stainless tables right now and they suck *****. they are made of 18~20 ga and they warp like crazy, not to mention they can't take a hit.

1/4" steel top is pretty nice too. moral of the story is to have somthing kinda heavy and thick.

shortyz21

3/8" stainless plate is pretty good.

mind you 24"x48" is over 800 bucks.

EdsGTI

My new table is 1/2" top 4'X8' 1" box steel perimiter framing on the edge of the plate. Then on the inside of the framing i have 2" box steel legs (6 of them) supporting it.

I used 2" 1/4 wall angle iron on the 8' side with box steel lateral braces holding up a piece of 3/4" plywood for a shelf.

I store all my fab material in bins we bought at target on these shelves.

Hooked up 2 surge protectors and zip tied them to the front of the table.

Ill take some pics and post them tonight.

TayTeg91

I'm at work right now, but ill post pictures when i get home.

EdsGTI

here it is a tad late

4'X8' cold roll 1/2" thick, base under the top is 1" box steel 1/4 wall, legs are 2" box steel 1/4 wall, has cross beams and angle iron to support it in the center at the shelf height

Justin Olson

I don't think I would really utilize a 4 ft deep table if it is pushed up against the wall. I'm thinking the best way for me to go ahead would be to do a 4ft X 4ft table made from qty 8 - 16 GA sheets. I would weld tack the sheets together giving me a 0.5" thick table. If I mess up the top sheet, I can just cut hte taks and peel off the top sheet.

Thanks for all of the pictures.

Justin

Syner-G-Racing LLC

http://www.millerwelds.com/edu...=2350

there are all kinds of post on the millerwelds website.

EdsGTI

the pics are decieving, its not against the wall, its actually over 2' from the wall, i didnt even notice that int he pics until you said it

eddie_ek

Here is my set up at my house garage simple for my use

ComposiMo

I'm really happy with my aluminum table... cuts down a lot of things getting scratched by the table. I built an overhead rack to hold clamps and stuff, a shelf to hold parts and misc stuff... and it has a arm on the side to hold the lines and stuff.

96supercharged

eddie_ek

Give me your compressor.....

ninethree-civic

haha i want to get one of those too...........i saw a home depot and harbor freight one of similar size for 400 HMMMMMMM

eddie_ek

Yea I bought that air compressor 7 years ago from home depot for 375, but what was funny was that the first one only lasted 2 weeks then I took it back and exchanged it for another one and its been 7 years now going strong.

55superbeetle

It's alittle messy but u get the picture. Made the welding with a hundred bucks worth of scrap from a local yard. The top is made of two pieces. I just happened to find them allready bent like that and it worked perfect.

dave@passenger

Heres my side of the bench:

This is Dan's side, his dynasty200 isn't in the pic for some reason but his machine sits where all his connections are.

Erik and Dan enjoying a brew and a smoke on a Friday night after a long week.


The table is 4x8 with a 3/4'' plywood top with a 3/16 thick mild steel top on that, I've been beating on it for 2 years now and its not warped or anything, the wood base really helps keep the steel sheet on top flat.

*Boostwerks*

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Regards,
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I've posted this before, but figured I'd help out with some ideas. It's not really a bench, but IMO one kick *** fab table i made. Theres nothing better than having a good solid table to work off of, especially when your doing this everyday. At 20ft long it's probubly a little big for most people, but you could use the same concept to make a similar table only on a much smaller scale. It was designed so that the top is extreemly durable, but if it gets damaged due to various JIG work, holes, time...ect you can simply grind off some of the tacks underneith and pry the plates off and replace em.





as far as a ventilation system goes... a cross flow design works really well. Essentially you have pull fans on one side of the shop that pull in fresh air from outside and push fans on the other side that force that air back outside. It creates a cross flow that'll draw any smoke outside.

However, if you don't own the building you may not be able to add fans to the side of the building. If not, you might look into if a roof ventilation system is possible. The best method that I've found is a roof mounted fan that pulls air into the building, and have a hood (similar to a stove hood) over your welding area. These types of systems don't really create much of a draft to cause porosity or a lack of gas coverage. They simply have a negative air pressure above the table that'll pull the smoke from the area.

Another thing to keep in mind is that if you have to heat the building, a typical radiator style heating may not be effective due to the cross flow of air. An infrared system works much more efficently.

dave@passenger

Bryson, that is in fact one badass table. If I had the space I'd love to build something like that. Good job!

*Boostwerks*

Thanks man! I built it thinking that I was going to be using it, but I'm now working in another area of our shop

Quickgti1.8t

ed your a baller

Jon@ForcedFabllc.com

Here is mine,its dirty and its really getting to be to small for some of the stuff i have been building lately, mainly Chopper fenders. I also need to build some new filler rod holders and get sealed tubes for the rods themselves. More shelfs will be added, along with a place to hang all the clamps i have been acquiring as of late.
I might be picking up a new 4x8 table monday, i saw the print shop behind us is getting ready to dump one of their old tables all it needs is a new Metal top and it will be ready to go.

Jon


And yes thats a Giant Victoria Secret ad behind the welder, we have a stack of them for some odd reason...