From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Snag"  wrote in message news:10oaies$3cp5c$1@dont-email.me...   
      
      I'm just jealous because I haven't got room for a welding table . Yet   
   , I'm fixin' to toss a bunch of junk so I can enclose the other half of   
   the carport/shop .   
   Snag   
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   I traded away a decent shop-made welding table to a friend setting up a   
   business and in return got access to use it with his gear plus a cruder one   
   made from 1/4" plate with 3" channel legs welded on, which took up too much   
   space. I solved that by cutting the legs short enough to bolt on PT 2X4 legs   
   beveled to securely wedge into the channel, and fixed axle wheels on one   
   edge to move the now narrow table into a shed between the posts and outer   
   tarp where it can lean upright.   
      
   When I need a temporary mount for some bench tool I drill it on the edge of   
   this table. It's rigid and heavy enough for a tire changer.   
      
   I've read of steel tube airplanes being welded directly on a plywood jig.   
   The wood fire won't spread or stay aflame and smoldering can be extinguished   
   with a spray bottle. I made arc shielding curtains for outdoors from cotton   
   cloth soaked in alum & borax solution, an old theatre formula. A test strip   
   hung vertically charred and then went out after the torch was removed.   
      
   Firebrick on plywood works well and gives clamping clearance, and it can be   
   stacked to support uprights. The firebricks happen to fit upright for   
   storage under my Jotul 118 clone woodstove. MIG spatter on the wood only   
   chars it.   
      
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