Hey Jason! I was wondering if you had put any thought into making adjustable-angle fixtures similar to your magic square for the fixture table. It would be very handy, especially if it had the clearances that your three axis squares do!
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I have a few concepts being currently tested. But if anybody has a better design idea, I’ll gladly build a prototype.
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It’s so nice that there’s a company with somebody who actually understands their customers making product decisions. That’s really rare in this day and age when it’s mostly “product managers” trained in making cost cutting decisions with no idea what their customers actually want.
Keep it up and you guys will continue to thrive.
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No reason you can’t clamp the magic square to the table and use it too, the only challenge is verifying you’ve got it clamped where you want it.
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trying not to start another thread here, had a thought while I was being as cheap as possible trying to develop a plan to get me a reasonable size Table…Hear me out and give me your thoughts. a leg mount plate that allows you to hook two dragon wagons togethers and only have one center leg, (instead of 8 legs) A fella could buy a dragon wagon get going then buy a top and a couple legs later on and bam, got a pretty decent size table. now I know someone is going to say, " just make it" and that’s all fine and dandy, I just know Jason can do it for faster and cheaper. as I only have so much time in my shop.
Are you saying that the two tops would be bolted together and then sit on a central pedestal type leg? There’s no provision for mounting along the side edges, so at the very least you’d be talking about the top plate of the post being large enough to span the distance between the center mounting points that are present at the center of each table, and realistically it should probably also catch a couple of each of the leg mounts along the edge that you’re bolting them together along for strength, so it’d probably have to be a + shape around 30"x30". The base plate would benefit from being pretty large as well to reduce the leverage the overhanging table can generate. And some bracing.
I can’t see it being very economical to ship if Fireball makes and sells them unless it’s as a DIY welded kit. It would just be too large and heavy fully welded, with too much of the volume once packed being just air.
well To be honest I didn’t look at the measurements I was just working out of what I thought the mounts looked ln my head. the plate would be centered between the corner mount of each table. would take two plates to make this work. I figure it would have been basically the size of just two regular top leg plates welded together with leg in the center? you would end up with 6 legs instead of 8 (like if you just pin two tables together) you would save the cost of two legs and be able to be on the lookout for a blemished table to use as your second one.
when I say I’m cheap that is a huge understatement… there’s is absolutely no doubt that everything Jason makes is worth every dime, I just don’t have a lot of Dimes!
You can already just use 4 legs after bolting the two tops together. What’s the advantage to 6 legs?
I recon In my mind you would want a support at that seam where the tables meet, would the be opportunity for flex with out it?
Maybe if you’re doing really heavy weldments in the center of the table. But I think unless you’re setting engine blocks on your table, bolting them together and just using a couple 1/2" plates to bolt the leg connections of the two tables together should be more than enough to prevent any deflection at the seam.
Perhaps the Fireball guys can chime in if they’ve tested a bolted connection between the tables.
Well I don’t know how to do the face palm emoji or else I would, I never even thought to strap them together….I gotta get off of these nights!
Use a tacking bolt or a shoulder bolt at the middle seam and you should be okay if you want to build an adapter to bolt a leg under the seam there is enough adjustment in the legs to account for the adapter plate.