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Fabricating 2 dozen table bases for a restaurant. Getting consistent legs and welding them required some jigs. Cutting jig with a metal circ saw and a positioning jig for tacking, magnets held the upper plates in, 3D printed parts are quite helpful for jigs like this.
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Nice looking table! Sorry, I’m dumb…what’s the first clamping fixture for? It looks like you’re pushing that leg up into some stops, but that can’t be how you formed that overall curve right?
@BHE Nothing fancy just a Harbor Freight tube roller with SWAG Offroad jack add-on for making the leg curves, 3 legs per 10 ft length. Portaband used to rough cut the legs from the rolled tube, then each rough leg went into the first jig to get the exact angle cuts. The bottom cut is just too extreme an angle for any of the other methods/tools I have, none were accurate. While the legs will have leveling feet, a four legged table needs to be flatter at the floor than a three legged table. Trying to keep a lower profile on the final leveling feet.
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wow very nice!
Questions:
Are you supplying complete table?
Top will be wood?
How long do you think it took you to make the fixturing?
These are the kind of projects I like
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Wow Tom that’s first class. Here I thought you just sat and thought of big words to post on the forum all day long!
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Client will most likely do a solid surface top, Corian type that they will install. Seems to be their top of choice. This is the third batch of tables I have done for them for multiple restaurants, inside and outdoors, 70-80 tables for them now.
Each jig took several hours. Some CAD time, assembly and figdeting of course. Nothing is finalized at the start. The end is never 100% the plan.
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John thanks for the feed back!
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Jigs are cool - unfortunately if the order calls for a few of them, no jig is made or it gets thrown away
It’s only when the item remains on the menu, and here’s one example
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Park or transit station benches?
Can you show a pic of that top punch? I take it, that it rolls the edge too?
Many were used for parks.
Then again I made tons of different types where some were used as an outdoor sitting area at large gas stations, others were outside of large department stores, and even for Disneyland.
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Edges were rolled and the steel was CNC cut. We ordered them that way.
But we saved a lot bending them ourselves, cause again the owner always looked for ways to squeeze every penny (not a bad thing).
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did you guys make the punch?
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The fabricator I had replaced did.
Those are old pictures, I left that job about 2 years ago as I’m retired. Made similar jigs though on big steel plates.
I just don’t have pics of any current jigs since then cause I don’t need any as a hobbyist.
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