Hi All,
What tools would you use to weld a 10 inch base plate to a 3 meter column on a fixture table?
What’s the column size? I’d use tooth blocks and 6”risers to locate the tube square to the table and one 14” tower block on the end. Shims to elevate the tube into position to the base plate.
Hi Jason,
The column size can be anything from 100mm x 100mm or even 80mm x 80mm
I have just purchased several items from your EU website and hopefully can start using them next week. In that order is a 44 piece shim kit and 2 x mini tooth blocks 125mm. If you think I need anything else please let me know.
I have 2 tables of 3000 x 1500 mm with 20 mm holes being delivered next week. I do apologies for not purchasing your tables as I can see that they are the next level, but I just couldn’t stretch myself that far.
We will start manufacturing Padel Courts under the ProMax Padel brand very shortly.
Kind regards
Ricky Jordan
A few more tooth blocks and risers are always useful. The 20mm table holes might be an issue. Are you going to just use standard 3/4 bolts to fasten the blocks?
Hi Jason,
I am not sure what you mean by 3/4 bolts. I have bought 19 mm tacking bolts, edge pins and fence blocks along with a number of squares.
Regards
Ricky
I’m confused, does you table have 20mm or 19mm, 3/4 holes?
Hi Jason,
The tables are 20 mm
Regards
Ricky
Hi Jason,
Sorry to pester you. I have just purchased some more fireball tools for my project. So to recap, what would be the optimum way to weld 10mm thick 250mm x 250mm plates to a 100 x 50mm tube?
Ricky,
Here is a quick down and dirt version of how to setup a tube or pipe to plate joint on the fixture table.
You have a fence block and two tooth blocks with the 325 mm riser or 13” (I’m not sure if your table is metric or imperial ill use the standard tool callouts and you can find the conversions if needed), this sets location for you plate and give you a large reference for the plate and a clamping surface.
Then to set the tube/pipe you use a fence block and appropriate riser to set one dimension and you use an additional riser block 90 deg to the uprights risers to create a shelf for the part to sit on. At this point you can either use shims to elevate the plate to the correct height or the preferred way is to use shims on top of the riser shelf to meat you dimension (see next picture for riser example.
Make sure to clamp over the shelf on top of the tube/pipe to avoid bowing your material.
Lastly ill give you an overhead to give you an idea of what it will look like. Then just move your tooth blocks and stops around to set your parameters for your part.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks very Wyatt, that helps me a lot. I will wait for my order to be delivered as I know I have the fence blocks coming.
Thanks again.
Ricky Jordan
Nice job showing with pictures, is that easy to do on your end?
it is just a quick mockup in cad and some screenshots, we have a video series on fixture maping on youtube.
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