Welding table It's quite easy to do it yourself. This item is a must-have item for the garage of all men who have welding skills or want to acquire them. Of course, for such a design you will only need metal, since the wood will immediately catch fire from hot drops during operation. In addition, you can connect a grounding cord from an electric welder to such a table, so as not to move it as needed. Please pay special attention on the circuits you will work with, since the final result depends on them.
Before you make a welding table, you need to select all the necessary elements:
- First, make sure you have steel boards from which the welding table shelves will be assembled. Note that when selecting such shelves, careful attention should be paid to how thick they are. That is, the sheets should be no thicker than 0.3 cm to make it easier for you to carry out installation and welding work. We need two steel plates.
- In addition to the plates, stock up on metal corners, which must first be cut and adjusted to length. From related materials you will need: threaded wheel supports, nuts, snap rings, a piece of profile pipe.
- In addition, you will need electric welding, cords, electrode clamps, construction pliers, squares, a measuring tape or ruler, a hammer, C-shaped clamps, a hacksaw for working with metal, and an electric grinder.
- You can’t do without photographs, based on which you will make the table.
Welding table manufacturing process
Table diagram Instructions for assembling the welding table
It’s not difficult to make a table for welding work with your own hands, the most important thing is to prepare the correct drawings. You can calculate and draw diagrams yourself, or you can use ready-made ones. Pay special attention to this point so that the dimensions are carefully observed. Before the manufacturing process, thoroughly study the photos of the finished work so that you know what to focus on.
As you work, follow simple and consistent steps. First you need to weld the frames with the shelves, which will make a solid slab. To do this, it is necessary to combine the blanks from the corners using electric welding. In this case, the connected angle must be straight - 90 degrees. The other frame is assembled in the same way. Tabletops for welding are attached in a similar way. To do this we need a metal plate with an applied frame. Be sure to make several seams around the perimeter of the tabletop before you begin the main welding. This is necessary to protect homemade table from the deformation it will undergo during welding.
The second shelf is made in a similar way. After this stage it is necessary turntable exposed installation work. Welding equipment is used for this. Make sure that the legs are positioned strictly perpendicular to the tabletop. A clamp is used to secure individual parts. After this, the next shelf is assembled and secured. The elements should be 70 cm apart from each other. In this case, the parts are fixed using tacks and only after making sure that the resulting product is geometrically smooth. On last stage seams are welded.
After installing all four legs, attention turns to the wheels. In this case, the holder on which the burner is installed must additionally be welded. For this, a tube blank is used. Note that it is not difficult to make a welding table for work with your own hands. The most important thing is to put in a little effort and find necessary materials. When searching for materials, pay special attention to their quality.
Table model Cooking frame
Future tabletop Drilling machine for making holes in the tabletop
First, we drill holes in the plates and spacers, and then we also cut the spacers and threads. The table top parts are attached.
The holes in the parts are drilled. The table legs are made from a 40x40 mm profile pipe.
Ready-made welding table The table is used not only for welding, but also for assembling products
It is quite easy to weld two parts well if, in addition to a good electrical apparatus and a mask with an LCD regulator, good electrodes are purchased, and all work is performed on a convenient welding table. A steel workbench for welding can be purchased at a supermarket or a specialized salon, but a more convenient and rational option would be to make a welding table with your own hands to suit your individual preferences, height and arm length.
Types of welding tables
Most do-it-yourselfers are absolutely sure that it will work welding machine it is possible on a regular workbench or even on concrete floor. Experienced craftsmen are able to work with a welding inverter, as they say, “on their knees,” but even they prefer to work on a special table, especially if they need to make a complex spatial structure.
For work involving welding at home, four main table models are mainly used:
All tables for electric welding, regardless of the design, are made of structural steel, most often by welding or using bolted connections. On the side surface of the tabletop or on one of the legs of the table, a contact pad is cut or welded into which the zero clamp of the welding machine will be connected.
All that remains is to place the workpiece on the table, connect the welding machine to the network, and you can weld metal. This is much more convenient than if you try to weld a part on a concrete floor or on bricks, when the lion's share of the time has to be spent looking for a place to connect the zero clamp.
Requirement for welding table
You cannot make a welding table according to an arbitrary pattern; when choosing a pattern and design of the base, you should take into account that you will have to work with molten and spattering metal and electric arc one and a half hundred amperes. Therefore, the design must meet clearly defined requirements:
- The base and tabletop are made only from a tubular profile; the tabletop and the entire structure must be massive enough so that blows with a hammer or an accidental push or a part falling onto the work surface do not lead to the structure tipping over;
- Steel legs or supports must be tied with a lower horizontal strapping made of a profile pipe or corner. Thus, it is possible to avoid loosening or deformation of the structure when installed on workplace very heavy or large parts;
- The working surface is equipped with a lattice deck, through which hot slag and drops of metal freely, without ricochet, fall into a tray with sand or onto a concrete floor;
- The place for welding work must be equipped with an exhaust hood. If welding work is carried out irregularly, then the metal structure is made mobile or portable, for example, installed on steel wheels with rubber braiding or on rubber-coated heels.
For your information! If the welding table is planned to be used for welding work in the open air, the supports must be insulated with getinax, rubber or any other dielectric.
If the working or welding plane is covered with a solid metal sheet, then the lower tier of the workbench can be equipped with a mesh or shelf for storing tools. In professional models of welding fixtures, cradle in the lower tier there are footrests or mounting hooks for storing electrodes, hammers, brushes and marking tools.
Welding table design
The design and layout of the workbench must be selected depending on the height of the person, the nature of the parts being welded, dimensions and weight. The most significant conditions ensuring comfortable operation and handling of the welding machine are the following factors:
- Table height for welding work. When working while standing, the tabletop or work surface should be at the level of the welder’s belt;
- Tabletop dimensions. As a rule, for professional work, the width and length of the working surface is 70-75 cm. Maximum welding accuracy is achieved if the welding zone is no more than ¾ of the length of the welder’s arms;
- Welding table dimensions for working in a sitting position, it can be copied from a regular home stool or chair, but in this case the device must be equipped with a protective screen at a height of 70-80 cm to avoid sparks and hot slag getting on the worker’s legs and clothes.
Welding and assembly tables
Workbenches and tables used for simultaneous installation, assembly and welding work are conditionally excluded from general series welding equipment. Ordinary tables, stands and workpiece holders are made, as they say, in the format of a bedside table; a small square tabletop provides easy access to details from any side.
In terms of dimensions and table top structure, welding and assembly tables are closer to metalwork benches.
The working surface is made of thick sheet metal with drilled holes for installation of clamps, mounting clamps or measuring tools.
Additional devices for fixing workpieces may be located on the tabletop; for example, when carrying out welding work on three-dimensional parts made of thin rolled products, it is necessary to install supports, support plates, and tripods on the table to ensure reliable retention of the welded edges until the end of the assembly work.
Rotary welding table
A rotary workbench looks more like a piece of industrial welding equipment. The working surface is made in the form of a solid metal disk with a fireproof heat-resistant coating, raised above the table frame. The free outer edge of the disk allows you to fix the parts to be joined anywhere on the welding fixture.
As a rule, special beacons or markings are applied to the tabletop, allowing the axes of rotation to be aligned as accurately as possible and to avoid beating of the weld during the rotation of the part. This is the most difficult option welding fixture, but sometimes you simply can’t do without such a table. For example, if you need to weld a circumferential seam on a cylinder, a round body of a potbelly stove, connect the blanks of two steel pipelines. In this case, the welding table must be equipped with a rotary belt drive. By rotating the tabletop, the welder can weld a heavy seam without changing his position relative to the fixture, which is very important to ensure high quality welding
Simple table for welding work
The simplest version of the table can be made according to the diagram shown in the photo. The base of the frame is welded from two sections of I-beam No. 70. Legs 60-65 cm high can be made from a square profile pipe. To make a tabletop, you will need ten meters of I-beam No. 50 or five profile pipes 40x60 mm.
The pipe is cut into two halves with a grinder along a short edge, ground and welded onto the finished frame.
The result is a very reliable and convenient welding table on which most welding work can be done.
Semi-professional welding table
To perform welds in products over high level you will need a welding table of a more complex device. One of the models modern devices shown in the photo. Structurally, the table differs from any other only in the presence of height-adjustable supports and a special table top.
The working surface is made of perforated lamellas. A set of steel angles will ensure reliable fixation of even the most complex product configuration on the welding table.
Required tools and materials
To make a full-fledged welding table, you will need a 70x70x3.5 mm profile pipe, a set of roller supports and a sheet of thick metal. Tools required welding inverter, table saw for cutting metal and marking tools.
Metal cutting can also be done using manual grinder, but it will not be possible to obtain the much-needed perfectly straight cutting angle, so you will have to cut the profile pipe and tabletop strips using a table saw or stationary saw.
Welding table drawings
The design of the welding table consists of two main parts - support frame and countertops. The frame can be made from a channel or pipe; if the welding table is supposed to be made mobile, then it is best to use a profile pipe or a steel angle.
The frame of the welding table is reinforced in the lower part with an H-shaped frame made of a profile pipe.
For stationary welding tables, it is best to install the tabletop and protective box on a brick frame. Most unusual options a welding table in the form of a folding structure or a folding table mounted on the wall of a garage or workshop.
Most often, for a regular garage or workshop, a welding table is made with a sheet metal top. In this case, it can be used both for welding and plumbing or repair. Therefore, the corner zones of the working plane are used for installing metalworking yews, devices for cutting and drilling metal. Essentially best option The welding table for home work is a combination of a workbench for metalwork with small additions for connecting a welding machine.
Making a welding table
The process of making a table begins with cutting a purchased square pipe. The frame and frame of the table are made of a square pipe 70x70 mm. Whether the entire structure will be sufficiently stable depends on how accurately the cutting and assembly of all frame parts is carried out.
Table legs
The first four pieces of 80 cm square pipe cut will be used to make support stands or legs for the welding table. Pre-pipe blanks are assembled on a steel plate into one package, trimmed and trimmed so that the length of all legs is maintained to the nearest millimeter.
The supporting part of each leg must be equipped with a thick metal plate, on which the swivel wheels or rollers will be attached. We immediately drill five plates cut out of steel for fastening the wheels and weld them to the legs.
According to the selected dimensions, we cut out the parts of the supporting part of the frame of the welded table.
We align the workpieces laid out on the concrete along the corners - gauges and fix them with clamps. We weld the frame using semi-automatic or conventional electric welding.
After the metal parts have been secured with small welds, it is necessary to allow the structure to cool and check the geometry of the legs again. It is necessary that the racks are in a strictly vertical position, and the distances between them on opposite sides differ by no more than 1-2 mm.
The next step is to make the lower tier of the table. Its design is somewhat different from the traditional angle binding, as is done in the case of assembly for carpentry and metal workbenches.
The frame of the welding table is reinforced in the lower part with an H-shaped frame made of a profile pipe. This design of the lower tier provides comfortable foot placement when working with parts placed on the welding table. Nothing prevents the center of gravity from moving far forward, as a result it becomes possible to weld the most complex and thin products.
Making a countertop
After cleaning the parts from scale and installing the support rollers, the frame of the welding table is painted heat-resistant paint. It is best to make the tabletop from a steel sheet with a thickness of at least 5 mm. The large thickness of the metal ensures that the working surface does not deform and will not produce a bubble when overheated.
The tabletop slab is cut out according to the drawing and laid on the finished frame. Before welding, you need to check for gaps and adjust the support areas so that the tabletop rests on all four points of the base. The metal plate is fixed with a clamp and welded to the frame using a carbon dioxide semi-automatic machine.
Protective box
The main enemies of an experienced welder are dust, slag and scale that inevitably accumulate on the workbench. Sometimes remnants of emulsion and large drops of molten slag must be removed from the countertop before finishing work.
For these purposes, a protective box is added to the tabletop; it can be made of galvanized steel or ordinary roofing metal. The location for installing the protective box on the table is selected depending on the preferences of the welder.
Safety when performing welding work
When carrying out welding work, first of all, you need to be extremely careful to avoid injury electric shock and poisoning when welding parts with zinc or cadmium coating. For safe work, a sheet of asbestos or getinax is usually placed on the table, on which a welding wrench can be placed without turning off the inverter.
Conclusion
The manufactured table meets all the requirements for industrial equipment and equipment when carrying out work using welding of any type. To work safely, you will need to add a rubber mat, a toolbox, a properly functioning ventilation system and autonomous lighting to the table.
Almost every home workshop should have a welding table, because it is very the right device. This metal structure can simplify welding work. It can also act as a ground loop. It’s worth assembling a welding table with your own hands, because it will help beginner craftsmen get good practice.
Requirements for welding tables
In home workshops, welding and assembly tables must be comfortable for work and as safe as possible. This is due to the fact that welding is characterized by the use of high current and high voltage.
Experts advise that when assembling a table for welding work with your own hands, adhere to the following recommendations:
If you need to make a welding table with your own hands, the drawings of which are taken from the Internet, then it is worth considering that the device cannot be made of flammable materials. You should also refrain from using materials that, when burned or soldered, can release substances that are harmful and dangerous to humans.
Optimal height homemade product should be about 80 centimeters, and the working surface will be no more than 110 x 85 centimeters. In cases where it is necessary to use a large working area, it is worth making a rotary table with your own hands, but it will need to be given additional rigidity.
Main parts of the device
Factory welding tables have a fairly simple design and low price. The simple structure ensures high reliability of the product. And also it is very convenient to use.
The main parts of the welder's table are the following components:
Execute preliminary preparation The welder's table is quite simple to use directly. First, you should check the stability of the entire structure. Using the adjusting supports, it is necessary to set the device so that the working surface is exclusively in a horizontal position. The entire installation structure must be connected to the ground loop. A homemade welding table must provide for the location of the ventilation hood. After completing these procedures, it is necessary to install the welding equipment and check the operation of all systems.
When the design of the product involves the use of a different type of equipment than an inverter, then it is worth using portable ventilation. It is equipped with a long suction and a magnetic holder. Thus, it is possible to fix the hood anywhere on the work surface.
Making your own design
Experts advise making a homemade welding table with dimensions of 1200x660x950 millimeters. These dimensions are considered optimal and allow welding work of any complexity.
Required materials
To reduce cost and facilitate adaptation, the tabletop is made from plywood sheet. Subsequently, the product is covered with a thick metal plate.
To assemble a welding table with your own hands, you will need the following materials:
- 10 meters of profile pipe;
- 2 meters of metal strip;
- fastening materials;
- thick steel sheet;
- sheet of plywood.
The materials used must be rust-free, and if it is detected, then they need to be thoroughly cleaned and treated with special means. Blanks for jumpers, legs and frame are cut from a profile pipe. It is necessary to chamfer the workpieces using a milling or lathe. Next, you need to start welding the frame for the tabletop.
Frame assembly
Sections of profile pipe, which are prepared for the tabletop frame, are fixed and laid on a flat surface. This part is a large rectangle with several jumpers. For this reason, it is worth carefully checking that the dimensions of the workpiece diagonals match. Their maximum permissible deviation should not exceed one millimeter. Such actions will help to correctly assemble and then comfortably operate the welding table.
Next, the blanks for the frame are welded using small clamps. The geometry of the device is carefully checked, and then all joints are welded using the main seam. The resulting welds are carefully ground with a grinder.
All corners of the tabletop frame are reinforced with metal strip overlays. This is necessary for attaching the legs and other hanging parts. To do this, you need to chamfer the prepared workpieces, and then weld them from the bottom of the frame in all corners of the table. To install the legs, iron strip overlays are welded to the upper edge of the frame. Next, you need to use special tools to make through holes for mounting supports.
Then the legs are fixed to the table frame, and side jumpers are installed between them. A tabletop is cut out of a plywood sheet, inserted into a frame and covered with an iron sheet. All seams of the product must be treated with special anti-corrosion agents.
This device can be improved in the future. To do this, small wheels are attached to the legs to easily move the table. It is also worth installing additional parts for fixing various workpieces, for example, gratings or ladders. Experts recommend attaching a special holder to the upper corner of the product for gas burner, which can be welded from a piece of metal pipe.
In order for the welding seam to be neat and durable, the work to be convenient and safe, the welder needs a well-equipped workplace. Working on random supports or on the floor does not make it possible to conveniently position the parts to be welded or securely fix them. Equipment such as a welding table is designed for this. You can buy it ready-made, or you can make it yourself.
Requirements for a welding table
Before you start designing and manufacturing a welding table, you need to determine the requirements for it:
- Structural rigidity. It should not “walk” under the weight of massive or bulky welded structures.
- Reliability of workpiece fastening.
- Ease of operation for the welder.
- Shelves for welding equipment, welding materials.
- Box for rarely used tools.
In addition to the basic requirements, additional options can be provided:
- exhaust ventilation to remove welding gases;
- lighting working area— 36 volts or LED.
In addition, it is important that flammable materials are not used.
Welding table drawings
You can make a welding table according to industrial drawings. However, they are usually overloaded with technological and production information that is irrelevant for home handyman. You can make a sketch drawing yourself, the main thing is to accurately calculate and label it as general overall dimensions, as well as the dimensions of each workpiece.
When designing a welding table, its height is torn out slightly below 80 cm - then the welder will be in the most convenient position for work.
Required tools and materials
In a home workshop, they often try to make do with improvised materials. However, in order to meet the strength and stability requirements stated above, the following should be used for racks:
- profile with a cross-section of at least 60×60mm and a wall thickness of 4 mm;
- I-beam or angle 60×60, but already 4 mm thick.
The shelf and drawers can be made from a lighter profile.
The tabletop is assembled from rolled profiles. The gaps between them will be used to secure the parts to be welded with clamps or pliers.
For the protective screen use:
- base frame - light profile;
- the screen itself is a metal sheet 0.4-1.0 mm.
The protective screen also has side edges.
A welding table with a fastening system should be equipped with additional devices to help secure workpieces to the table and to each other:
- clamps;
- clamps;
- magnetic plate base for fastening small parts.
You cannot make this equipment for a welding table with your own hands; you will have to buy it.
Welding table design
There are several types of designs. The most common:
- amateur, for occasional welding work, small structures by a home craftsman;
- semi-professional assembly and welding, for performing complex operations
For a table made from a profile pipe, made by yourself, the following dimensions are recommended:
- height of the working surface from the floor 70-85 cm;
- working surface dimensions of at least 80×100 cm;
- The height of the protective box is at least 140 cm from the floor.
Simple table for welding work
This design is durable, easy to manufacture, and convenient to use for small amounts of welding. It consists of a rigidly welded metal frame made of 60*60 profile. Four racks are attached to it. 20 cm from the floor they are connected by 20*20 corners. Tabletop elements are installed on top of the frame, forming reliable support for the workpieces to be joined and equipped with grooves for their fastening.
Hooks for wires from the welding machine are welded to the frame, under work surface Place a shallow tray for scale and dust.
On one side of the table for welding work, install a cabinet made of thin metal sheet for storing small tools. Here I weld a stand for the water tank.
Semi-professional welding table
It is a welding and assembly station designed to improve the convenience of welding work. Allows you not only to cook, but also to carry out accompanying mechanical processing.
This table includes:
- rotary working platforms;
- installation of drilling or milling equipment;
- quick-release bench vice;
- rotary attachments for attaching the welding machine;
- exhaust ventilation;
- flexible illumination of the working area;
- anchorage to concrete floor.
The purpose of all these improvements is to enable the welder to work from a comfortable, non-tiring position and to save time on the operation of removing and installing the product. Pays off for large volumes of work
Making a welding table
Let's take a closer look at the process of producing a simple welding table with your own hands. It is made of a rectangular metal profile and a corner. Dimensions can be changed depending on the needs of a particular home craftsman.
Let's decide on the size of the table
For free placement of workpieces, convenience and safety during work, we select the following sizes:
- height of the floor table top – 75 cm;
- tabletop dimensions – 80×100 cm;
- the height of the protective screen is 140 cm from the floor.
Preparation and cutting of material
To make the design you will need:
- corner 25×25, length 46 cm, ends cut at 45° – 4 pcs.;
- corner 25×225, length 76 cm, ends cut at 45° – 4 pcs.;
- profile 30×230×21.5, length 76 cm – 4 pcs. (for legs);
- steel sheet 3 mm 44.5×75 cm – 2 pcs. (for shelves);
- profile 60×240×22 mm – length 100 cm – 2 pcs.;
- profile 60×240×22 mm – length 72 cm – 2 pcs.;
- profile 40×230×21.5 length 72 cm – 8 pcs. ;
- swivel wheel support with stopper – 2 pcs.;
- wheel support – 2 pcs.
The rolled product is cut with a grinder or a cutting saw and thoroughly cleaned of burrs.
Making a countertop
Along the contour, the tabletop is made from a 60×240 profile. When assembling, you should ensure that the angles and diagonals of the contour are equal.
The internal grille is assembled from sections of 30×230 profile and welded to the contour at equal distances from each other. All welds should be thoroughly cleaned with an angle grinder.
On the sides of the short sides, handles made of 8-12 mm rod can be welded to the bottom of the tabletop. This will allow you to move the table from place to place.
The legs are welded at the corners of the tabletop frame. First comes spot welding grab the legs and especially carefully check the angles of the legs with a charcoal and a metal ruler. They must be strictly perpendicular to the plane of the frame. If a skew is detected, it should be corrected. Otherwise the table will be unstable. Wheel mounts can be welded on the bottom of the legs. This is convenient if you plan to frequently move the table from place to place. If the place is permanent, then it is better to abandon the wheels that add instability and weld small squares of metal to increase stability and protect the floor from damage.
After aligning the legs, they must be permanently welded and secured with additional strapping from light corners 20 cm from the ends. They are welded with the flat side down, and an OSB shelf is placed in the resulting recess. Welding equipment and materials, a mask, etc. are placed on it.
You can also weld several brackets and hooks to the legs for hanging cables, holders and other equipment. They are made from a steel bar of large nails. They should be thoroughly cleaned to remove any sharp edges.
Protective box
The protective box serves to prevent the scattering of splashes of molten metal during welding and solid waste during stripping. The frame is made from a lightweight corner, and the box itself is made from thin sheet metal. It is attached to the tabletop with pins. When working with parts that protrude beyond the dimensions of the table, the box is removed.
You can weld a tray with low sides under the tabletop to collect scale when cleaning seams. The tray is installed with a slight inclination so that debris gradually accumulates towards its lower edge.
Tools are stored in a wooden or metal box. Instead, you can weld a cabinet with shelves.
Assembly
To carry out assembly work you will need:
- welding machine;
- electrodes;
- Bulgarian with cutting disc and a cleaning disk;
- a set of hand tools;
- ruler 1 m, corner, tape measure.
Assembly is carried out in the following order:
- cutting blanks, checking dimensions and angles according to the sketch drawing;
- tabletop assembly: first the outline, then the ribs;
- attaching legs;
- welding the lower trim;
- fastening wheels or support platforms;
- assembly of the protective box;
- tray installation;
- final cleaning of seams, burrs and irregularities;
- applying primer and paint;
- installation of OSB sheet.
Additionally, you can weld handles for moving and hooks for wires.
Precautions when working at a welding table
Welding has several harmful factors that can harm human health:
- high temperature;
- scattering of hot splashes;
- high intensity ultraviolet radiation;
- electric shock;
- falling of heavy objects.
To avoid harmful effects, the following rules should be observed:
- Work must be carried out in well-ventilated areas equipped with both supply and exhaust forced ventilation.
- Before starting work, carefully inspect the equipment for the absence of mechanical damage, insulation violations, loose contacts.
- During work, be sure to use personal protection: welder's mask, respirator, split-leaf protective gloves with gaiters, fire-resistant clothing and shoes.
- The workplace must not be cluttered. The welder must have easy and convenient access to the work area.
- It is strictly forbidden to work from random supports.
- The parts to be welded must be secured with stock fasteners.
- It is strictly forbidden to use and store flammable materials and liquids closer than 5 meters from the welding site.
Carefully following these rules will preserve your health, life and material values.
A true owner who is not afraid of physical labor always dreams of mastering the skill of a welder, but to do this, you need to prepare a workplace, buy a suitable welding machine and free up a corner in the garage or home workshop. A welding table, which you can make yourself, will also come in handy.
Homemade table for welding work - ideal option to ensure convenience for both the novice welder and the professional. Naturally, to make such a device need to use metal, since the tree will instantly ignite from hot metal splashes during the welding process.
In addition, a steel desktop is much more efficient than its wooden counterpart in a number of other parameters. TO metal structure You can connect a grounding cable from electric welding so as not to constantly drag it from one place to another. But before moving on to assembly work, you need to decide what materials and tools you will need to carry out all the activities yourself, and what safety measures to follow in the work process.
Materials for assembling the welding table
The first thing you need to worry about is the presence of self-made table for an electric welder is steel plates, from which the shelves will be assembled. I would like to immediately note that in the process of purchasing metal blanks, you need to pay special attention to their thickness. Experts advise using 3 mm sheet iron, which does not exceed the thickness allowed for welding with a welding machine. In total, you will need two steel blanks with dimensions of 44.5 by 75 cm. In addition to the plates, you will need metal corners, cut to a specific length:
- 4 corners 2.5 by 2.5 cm and 460 mm long with ends cut at an angle of 45 degrees;
- 4 blanks from corners with illogical parameters as the previous parts, but 760 mm long;
- 4 steel corners 3.2 by 3.2 cm and 915 mm long for table legs.
Also from consumables and components The following items will be required:
- 4 wheel supports with threaded connections and nuts for them;
- 4 special nuts for connecting threaded rods;
- 4 locking rings for fastening wheel elements;
- a piece of pipe 75 mm long and 30 mm cross-section, if the table will be used for gas welding.
Naturally, to assemble a welding table with your own hands you will need a tool from the following list:
- electric welding and all its accessories: cables, clamps, electrodes, etc.;
- pliers, two squares, a construction tape, chalk, a ruler and a hammer;
- 3 special C-shaped clamps;
- a hacksaw for metal, or better yet an electric grinder for making cuts at a given angle.
Sequence of self-assembly of the table
After preparatory process for purchasing supplies and preparing everything the necessary tool will be completed, you can proceed to the direct assembly of the welding table with your own hands. For this purpose, experts recommend stick to a certain sequence simple actions.
During the assembly process you need follow safety rules, because there is nothing more valuable than human health. When carrying out assembly work, it is important to use protective equipment: gloves, goggles or a shield.
Precautions when working at a welding table
It is no secret that working with a welding machine is accompanied by a certain danger and therefore a person must protect himself from possible troubles when independent work at the desk. Before starting any work, you must consider the following factors:
- It is important to ensure high-quality ventilation at the work site. The best option is the installation of exhaust ventilation.
- Protection from electric shock. For this purpose, it is necessary to work in special welding gloves and ensure that they are always dry.
- Eye protection from arc radiation. For this it is imperative to protective mask or glasses.
- Protecting the desktop from metal splashes. Before carrying out welding activities, it is necessary to clear the work area of any debris, especially flammable ones. You need to remove paint containers, sweep away sawdust, and especially remove fuel containers if the workshop is located in a garage.
Also specially designed for welding activities protective equipment , without which it is not recommended to start work.
Purchasing a ready-made welding table
If a person does not want, or for some reason is not able to make a welding table with his own hands, he can always purchase a ready-made structure in a store. In this case, the choice should be based on the purpose for which the welder’s workplace will be used. If space in the workshop is limited and small metal parts will be welded, then you can buy folding table.
A welding table with a rotating design is considered very convenient and functional, but such a product is quite expensive. Modern welding tables have a drive on the rotating part, which greatly simplifies the welding process. Thanks to the mechanization of welding activities, the quality of the weld seam also improves.
Welding table, equipped rotating mechanism, allows carry out a full cycle of work without moving. Thanks to the rotation of the workpiece, the welder gains access to any, even hard-to-reach points of the heavy metal part. Welding work carried out at such a workplace differs increased efficiency, quality and safety.
It is quite possible to make the welding process convenient on our own. At the same time, it is absolutely not necessary to make superhuman efforts or spend fabulous sums of money. Assembling a welding table is a completely simple process, especially if you follow the recommendations of experts.