DIY: CertiFlat 24"x48" Heavy Duty Welding Table! LEGIT!!!

it's really heavy but check out what i just found [Music] nice one dave welcome back to the channel everyone today we're gonna be working on unboxing and setting up the certified two foot by four foot welding table i purchased a little while ago i'm finally getting a chance now to break it out of the boxes we're gonna set up on the saw horses behind me we're gonna get it completely set up and you're gonna watch so let's get to it along with the actual table i actually purchased the leg and caster kit for so once the table top is set up we're actually going to set up the legs to go with it work on it now [Applause] it's really heavy so i'm going to unbox this on the floor right back there get every all the parts laid out i'll give you an overview of what the parts come with for the two foot by four foot welding top [Music] [Music] come on yeah yeah so this is what it looks like when you first take the box off it's very nicely packaged [Music] this is a tab and slot design in this table these are the slots that everything is going to click into we're actually going to weld on the tabletop this is the actual tabletop surface right here and all these are 5 8 inch holes 2 inches on center so you actually put welding table clamps in these holes it's gonna be really nice make working off this a lot nicer when welding all the taps and slots already put together very nice give you a closer look so i just looked it up on end and normally when i've seen the other ones come packaged the ribs are packaged separately it looks like they've already put this one somewhat together the way it's been packaged i just need to set that up onto the saw sawhorses right there and start latching stuff down making sure it's nice and flat these ribs are what actually keep the table nice and flat the table top does not necessarily mean it's flat it's the ribs when it's all welded together is what makes this thing certifiably flat or sort of flat so let's get this thing unscrewed from the wood and unbolt it from the wood and up onto the saw horses right now all right so to take this off you need a half inch socket and you need this type of a drill attachment on your drill to actually get the screws out we're going to take the screws off we're going to put this face down take the bolts out take the screws out set the table up onto the saw horses right now that's what we're doing [Music] the tabletop is pretty much sandwiched between two two by fours screwed together this is probably floating a lot of these lips and exactly what's holding them in i always have to take out four bolts this thing should be right and set up on the saw horses [Music] we've got the screws out bolts out now we're going to take the table top and set it on the saw horses so we have it sitting on the sawhorses right now i picked up a bunch of these little flat top two inch brackets the holes are two inch on the center these fit perfectly into the holes and the trick is you want to suck these ribs down nice and tight to the tabletop these just slide in right now just like this it's all one big jigsaw puzzle right now it's already put together so the trick is to get all these roots sucked down to the tabletop these ribs are perfectly flat these ribs aren't going to bend but when you suck the tabletop to these ribs you know the tabletop's going to be perfectly flat so i'm going to use these little brackets here these little bolts to hold it in place while i tack it in place once it's all tacked in place i'm going to flip this over and finish welding the slots and the tabs get you a little closer so you can see the tabs and slots i'm talking about so you can see this is one of the rips and it actually just slips right out nice and easily along the bottoms here this right here these are what they call the tabs these are the slots so it's slot and tab here's a slot slot slot slot these slots line up perfectly with the other slots on these ribs here here and here here here and the tabs go into the slots on the table top so all you do is you line this up in here it only goes together one leg and it fits perfectly down in there so the tab goes into the slot and on the other side the face of the table once these are pulled down nice and tight we'll actually do the welding but right now i've got to get the center section buttoned down as best i can [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so they say the instructions they want you to shine a light underneath between the rib and the actual tabletop if you see light coming through then you know it needs to be a little bit tighter before you actually tackle this in place so i'm going to use my little flashlight here and start shining underneath these ribs here see if i can see any light coming through [Music] right around here i can use another one one spare one throw it down right in the middle and that should snuck us all up nice [Music] so the whole center rip is perfect right now we're gonna throw a bunch of tacks in it just to hold it in place and then we'll work on the edges do the same for the edges flip the table over check to make sure everything's nice and level on the top side and then we'll finish weld everything in place it's going along really good very cool table it's actually pretty neat i need a zap that's pretty neat i'm gonna wipe down some metal with some acetone just to make sure i get all the oil and gunk off before i start tack welding in place [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] just to give you an example of how the tab and slot works this piece right here has all these little slots in it all along the way and it sits into these grooves it only goes one way so when you can't mess it up it sets right down in perfect [Music] now i'm going to un pull my little new bolts that i put down the center and now that that's tacked in place and i'll probably start just working on one side working on the other side flip it over make sure it's still level and then actually finish weld the tabs the slots in [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] now we got this side done we're going to take these brackets off rinse and repeat and do on the final side and the last we'll just check these very ends which i doubt are going to be off because this side these center ribs are holding down the middle ribs going the other way [Music] now we're going to hand tighten them up using the half inch socket and then do the flashlight test [Music] [Applause] [Music] now we're just going to remove the clamps on this side and then we are all fully tacked in we're going to check the ends acetone and just throw a little tack in on each end flip it over and completely check the level of the table it should be perfect [Music] completely tacked in at this point now we're going to flip it over and just verify with a straight edge that this is actually straight and flat give you a close-up of what we've done so far now we're going to flip the table over so the correct side is facing up and we're going to test the levelness of the actual tabletop i've got my straight edge here plop this down in the center as flat as it comes check both edges so now let me give you a close-up of what we're going to be welding now we're gonna weld all the tabs and slots in place and probably use a little flappy wheel on the grinder to smooth the rest of the tabletop out from where we're gonna be doing our welding so if you look along here you can see the tabs and slots that are poking up through the top of the table top right here all along the way these are the spots that we're actually going to weld in place nice and neat here here all the way down and around the table we're going to work on welding those right now we're going to take the flap wheel on the grinder and sand it smooth so we're not going to do a ton of welding in here just enough to get everything bound together we don't want to mound up the weld on top because it's going to throw up the levelness of the table but we're going to work on doing that right now but first we're just going to hit these with a little bit of acetone to clean these up because they are a little bit of oily right now you can see the oily residue when it was shipped here so we're going to clean that up right now with some acetone before we start the welding [Music] process all cleaned up now let's throw the finished welds in here the tabletop will be nice and solid nice and flat we can actually work on the exhaust on the truck with this which is what i'm looking forward to which should be coming up very soon so stay tuned not that great with my tig welding skills yet so i'm going to throw the cardboard down and use my mig to finish this off [Music] here we have all of the slots and tabs welded on the top of the welding table and we're going to take the flap wheel on the grinder and clean all of these up so these will be nice and smooth down nice and cleaned up so they'll be nice and smooth there won't be any bumps along the top of the table we have a lot of grinding and cleaning to do right now but this table top is almost done after this we're going to be working on the legs for the table with the casper [Music] all right as you can see the top has been completely ground nice and smooth it's nice and flat everything is welded and finished welded next step will be to probably flip this over and work on the actual legs for this with the casters so we're gonna work on that right now now we're gonna pull out the light kit the light kit will go on to the table top right here we're gonna pull the kit out right now get that all squared away and weld it in place this is the box that the lights actually came in and open this up now 42 pounds that's what it's gonna look like see that these here i have to figure out and rearrange these before welding plates because these are going to be cross braces as well this is the upper part is all tacked together now now we're going to work on tacking in the lower part and then we'll finish weld everything in place [Music] is [Music] all you need to change the spool out on this hobart 140 is a half inch box end wrench and some needle nose pliers [Music] the wire feeds off the bottom of the spool through this hole here this piece lifts up out of the way this is where the wire to the gun goes we want to get it started into there push it in as far as you can [Music] feed it in as much as you can [Music] and then expose that the roller back onto the wire and clamp it in place now we're going to finish pulling the wire out of the gun this is the old wire we don't have a need for anymore remainder of the wire from the spools right here that gets set aside we can use that for hanging parts for powder coating or anything else we need to do now we just take the tip off because i found that the wire feeds through better when the tip's not in the way this uh brass tip right here just unscrews [Music] comes off and this is where the wire is going to come spreading out of the gun feeds from here through around through the cable out the gun turn the gas off so i'm not blowing gas out when i'm doing this it takes a minute you can see this moving right behind me that's feeding the wire through the cable and then it's going to be popping out the tip of the gun here as soon as it pops out we can stop pulling the trigger there we go it's popped out as you can see right here take your tip feed the wire through the tip and then you just screw your tip back on the gun snug it up just a little bit cut off the access wire [Music] you just put this back on that just snugly fits on the gun that's it that's how you change the wire in a hobart 140 very easy i'm going to tip this up on one end and finish well at the ends and the welding on this will be pretty much complete other than the casters on the bottom now we're going to work on the casters this is what we have going on right here i have the nut connected to the lower plate of the mount that's going to get welded in here it's going to attach this nut into place i don't want to heat it up too much on the wheel to mess up the bearing so it's going to tack it in place remove the wheel finish weld it around and then we should be good to go this nut will actually end up going down inside like this and this will get finished welded here and ground smooth [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now it's time to grind down all of the welding just did with everything out put the casters in flip this back over level it up a little bit and we are completely done with the welding table [Music] [Music] cleaning up the welds right now out top cleaned up where the wheels are going to go i'm just cleaning up the edges on the sides and then we put the casters in and then we put it back over we're done okay we have all the grinding done now we're going to insert the casters into the four ends for the wheels where the wheels go all they do is they just screw in just like this [Music] [Music] so all right everyone that's me wrap for this video as you can see the welding table has been completely finished it came out absolutely perfect perfectly flat perfectly smooth excellent surface to actually do a lot of welding on so i'm really looking forward to using this table 5 8 inch holes 2 inches on center next up i'm probably building some actual welding table clamps to use in this table which will come in really handy when making jigs welding the exhaust stuff for the 52 chevy as always please be sure to like share and subscribe hit the notification icon down below so you know when future videos come out and i'll see you in the next video thanks for watching [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 25min 57sec (1557 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 29 2020