Welding Tips and Tricks

These are some booth table supports I made for a bar to pay off my gambling debts. Bar tables have to take an amazing amount of abuse, people sitting on unsupported edges, dancing on them, falling or getting pushed into them ...on an almost nightly basis. (Not that i would know, it's just what i hear ). If they aren't built strong or fastened to the wall just right, they can easily snap right off. And they have before.

These supports are made out of inch and a half square tube with an 1/8th inch wall, all migged together. There is also a piece of 5 inch by 8 inch by 1/4 inch plate welded to the back of the frames for a mounting plate. We set the frames against the wall and drilled through a concrete and stucco wall and bolted them through the wall in 6 spots, 2 on the outside corners of the square tube and 4 bolts in the plate.

The first picture is one of the frames in the shop, the second shows the old one that we replaced on the left and the new one is on the right.

Other Steve

Do the owner a favor and cap all your open ends.
Weird shit gets stuffed in the strangest places in bars.

Some jerk stuffs a couple fried shrimp up an open tube and the whole place will reek for months!

That's a good idea. I never thought of that. It's hard sometimes to get out of the mindset that just because i wouldn't do something like stuff food in there, it doesn't mean that nobody else will.
Thanks!

Other Steve

Delraydella.

Capping the ends of opened tubular and wrapping fillets completely around the joints will also greatly reduce eventual corrosion (ex: rust).

Fabrication of furniture is a pleasure and often an art.

Tanks.
Alexa