Granite plate stand part #1

hey guys welcome to bar C my nightstand and we're gonna go through a mountainous thing on a on a stand and I'm going to show you just the highlights of putting this thing together and a couple tricks that I use for steel bow and maybe you'll learn something maybe something you already know I don't know renewable steel fab today and get this thing on that should I gotta get this thing on it's Levellers now this is just a test fit yeah we hit it first time and the stands dont needs to be cleaned and painted obviously so I'm gonna pull the plate and scrub it down and get all the Fingal berries off of it and clean it and get a coat of paint on it and it's just just cut to the welding bench back when we started this this little project and buildest and you guys welcome to the welding bench and today we're gonna make a stand for the my new granite plate and you just don't go support them by 4 corners I learned an awful lot from my visit over at Standridge and on the back side of your calibration cert they give you a really nice instruction on how to build a stand now they do offer stands but I didn't go for that and on the bottom there's three pockets they want a three point now which is technically that is the easiest thing in the world to level and then in the corners they give you a containment angle just to keep you from sliding the plate around and keep your adjustment bolts on the three points so they give you a really clear drawing of what your stand is supposed to look like and I do believe anything bigger than 18 by 24 they want them those three points and mouths now what's interesting is during all the final lapping and the final you know calibration of the top of your plate it's always sitting on those three points so when they ship it it's just sitting down on two by four and you know crazy material and until you get it back on those three points and get the plate to come back to where it was when it was calibrated it's never gonna be 100% accurate and they do not it says that you're you're not warrantied for calibration if you don't have it mounted on these on the on these three points and they give you a pocket underneath for these two index two they've already got like a cushion epoxy on so it's ready to go and I just made some quick bosses there's one plate here so he got a hole drilled in it and just just just a simple little boss threaded boss drop that in weld it in and I've got my my mounts and I've made corners out of just simple angle and we're doing this arrangement here but the three point attachment see it's showing its suspension points and then there's your angles in the corners to a capture the plate alright so we're gonna I'm gonna get this top made first and then we'll figure out the legs later I don't I'm not quite sure how high I want the plate yet but I want to get this top piece done so already got my material cut up I got a little more drilling to do and get some stuff prepped and I'll bring it back when I got it all tacked together the one and a lot of times you've got some tubing that maybe you you're going to repurpose and you know you might have a hole in it and you want to get rid of it this is all I'm going to use but this piece of tubing you had a hole already in it but it was a nice chunk of to me we just had a couple of year old things I'm gonna play a tip on you we're gonna do they're gonna slip this under there and back it up and then just do a plug weld on the hole just to create some strength and close off the hole if you're spiders and stuff you're going in there but I'm going to show you a really easy way to hold this you see pinky said I can't get your hand in there and maybe a stick or something but I'm gonna show you what I do maybe two feet all the way down do that pretty big all the way down to nothing and then the short wire going then just come in right in the center and intentionally to use the wire to there and don't let it bust off so we're good now I want you to be a little wire move the ground I would pay out some wire clip it off with dice now we got a nice little handle to pull that up and dessert mm-hmm into the hole okay so we've got our welder set back where it was and we've got our chunk of scrap with a handle on it and we're gonna plug up this hole no one's gonna use that wire fish that in and this is an old trick from doing off-road race cars we used to do this to actually tubing over roll bars we do tubing to get wires put in it they do the tubing to plug up unused bowls we'd use MIG wire for all kind of you can see right there I got a good firm hold on that and I'm able to get in there and you myself attack this plant down now we are attacked let's take a look at that it's a real easy way to get rid of unuseful all I'm gonna do is just go around in a circle and plug well that thing in and our unwanted hole was is gone I mean you could fill it completely they grind and polish and make it like it never happened or all I'm doing is looking for the structural integrity of the tube and not allow any foreign object entry that's all the reason I'm doing here so I'm just gonna run around in the circle be done with it and there you have it and it's completed plug weld all right here's a common problem with laying out some square Iain all chat together you're pretty happy whether you check you little squares they attack it and it moves on you if you get it down to the table what you were doing it quite often you get a little lazy just tap it up which is what I did here so in the corner in a corner or what measured 41 on the dots over here were measuring 40 and 7/8 so technically what we want to see at both sides is 42 15 16 so we only got a show up one in you know a sixteenth of an inch deal and I'll show a light good there's a couple ways you can do it you can tack your piece down on the table and then pry it off and grind it out later what I'm going to do I'm just going to put a drunk a couple of clamps down there and basically just pin this side of the rectangle of the table and over here I've got another clamp that I put in you clamp down the table and I'm just going to use this is just a wedge you can maybe use like a log splitting wedge you can tell this has been beat on a few times you wanna see all I'm doing is right in this section that way to lower this dimension and raise this dimension now what I what I choose to do is I'm going to go back and just burn back into my tax with a little bit of pressure on it and then let everything relax and check it again but that's a way to impose your will on a rectangle that may be just slightly out of square have you tacked together okay so we've got our our carrier are upper tabletop finished welded done squared we're happy with it and aren't there's our adjusters and we just put a little bit of white grease on those to keep them free and I actually polished the tops of the bolts with a grinding wheel or a belt sander actually to just take the letters off so that when you turn them you don't dig into those little epoxy Don pads in dr. our threaded bosses we're gonna make the legs now and I actually keep these little threaded bosses in a bin you know someone doesn't have anything to do they can make these we use them for all kinds of stuff they're handy to weld on conveyors you just Waldo's blow it on and you got something to bolt to so we used them here and now we're gonna use it for the legs and here's another trick all right that's a foundation washer for a house you can buy these I think it come out to about 40 cents apiece there are already two by two that already got a 5/8 hole and if I take that and weld that right there and bring a bolt in here from the bottom I've got a pretty nice leveling leg so what I'm gonna do is take my legs are going to be two by two seen here and she had just welds right to that but first you weld you will do threaded boss on the inside and put it in there and now you've got a very nice leveling leg so that's just gonna go like that and we've chosen thirty four and a half inches for our legs put the two put the granite plate the top of it where we want so let's get that done and we're gonna go from there what we're gonna get some paint on it and I haven't decided yet but I think I want a small drawer underneath for stowing little surface plate related items like one two three blocks and V blocks and little things like that but I think after I get the the base built and they fit it with a with a shot made drawer okay so uh yeah let's get started on this okay so you've got our plate washers ready and we got our setup bowl ready and we got all our slugs done no there's two ways to do this you could go through to every single slug and turn a little shoulder on there to Center that thing up or you could take the one setup bolt you're going to use and turn just a small shoulder right against the hex just so it locates in the hole living like that now that bolt is on the center and then just take your slug and just thread it down tight on that until you feel it until you feel a pinch everything will be captured then you can just by hand and now we're captured on that hole so the choice is yours neither do all the slugs or one bolt it's only four of them here it doesn't really matter and turning for those in a layup would be no big deal you get 20 or 30 through the bolt every time and twice on Sunday so now I'm just going to put a quick tack on that and that way you can still handle it without it being smoking-hot come back and finish Walton later and see there you have it centered and you'll you'll hit the center every single time we'll come back after we're done and do every single one of them okay so we got our legs tacked and we're reasonably square but the final squaring is going to be what you do is you measure down low down here measure this width and then cut yourself a piece for your top and whatever it takes to make them parallel you know force them together or drive the piece in and drive it apart you're really close to square right now and get it as close as you can before you do that but now we've just got a few a few uppers to make and give it all tacked together checking for square in all directions and give it a final away from the Standridge diagram they show two bars down here at the bottom and I'll show you why I did it across there rolling the chair for my feet he's here my feet on the bar I can and if I roll in and out I'm not gonna hit anything but that's gonna put my plate right about here and if you're sitting there doing a lot of work this is perfect I'm just real happy with this one more thing I'm probably going to do since you guys do like to sheet metal so much before we get this clean sanded and painted I'm going to install a couple of angles underneath these two tubes here and have just an angle facing down and we'll make a nice little sliding drawer about three inches deep to hold gauge blocks v blocks one two three blocks building blocks Lego blocks at any other blocks we can think of so I think just one nice little drawer right here they did index is all the way under out of your ways you know you drag your belly on it when you working the plate is just right here but I think before I painted up and we're going to install two angles a very parallel right under these tubes right here I'm probably gonna tack in a piece of sheet metal in this square because there is an air gap around the plate and I don't want dust and dirt and stuff like that getting under in my drawer so I'll probably block this top off with just a flat sheet and get my angles welded on and then we're gonna do the senior coat of paint get the plate on it and do it over in there where it belongs I can make it draw at any time but at least the angles Laurie if you welded and ready to go alright that brings this to a final thanks for watching okay I call that a good fit me there guys all right let's get it back off of there and agree to get it painted up you

Channel: Shadon HKW

Views: 16,376

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Keywords: steel fabrication, welding, fabrication, Stand, Granite (Rock Type), surface plate, granite surface plate, surface plate stand

Id: v09ZnEYDWn4

Length: 19min 38sec (1178 seconds)

Published: Wed May 06 2015