A hydraulic press would have been easier to use but i don t have one.
I beam welding table.
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Make your fish plates narrow enough so you can get horizontal welds between the plate you re adding and the flanges just weld to the web not the flanges cut a radius on both ends weld all the way around.
Place a straight edge long enough to cover all the spacers on top of the beam.
I had about an 1 8 gap in the middle.
Didn t cost much and is extremely convenient for building larger projects.
Size wise it will be 28 wide using 4 beams side by side i can t go much wider than this due to lack of shop space by 6 long might go longer depends on shop space.
Welding the spacers onto the beam will mostly likely cause some bending.
Perfect for clamping and it looks sick.
On the underside of the top beams i will have 2 pieces of the i beam ran perpendicular to the top beams to add width wise stiffness and also my mounting point for the table legs.
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Properties in imperial units of american wide flange beams according astm a6 are indicated below.
Table is 42 across and 16 long would have made it longer if it would have fit.
Awesome welding table i beam supports with replaceable c channel as the top.
Using some chain and a hydraulic jack i bent the beams back to pretty straight.
I beam welding table built this table in the shop a few months ago and figured some of you might like to see it.
We are constantly tack welding jigs to make parts or jigs to assemble parts to the tables which there are 5 main tables most being 5 x 10 x 1 and a new 16 x 12 made from 16 x 1 2 inch beam channel.
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