plans for a frame table
 

Does anyone have plans for a basic frame table?

Tonny

square and level... :D

And about "this" wide X "that" long. ;)

Just kidding you. There are several frame tables in the various build threads and they all look different. Maybe take a look and see if one catches your eye and contact the owner for dimensions and material specs? Just a thought is all. Good luck with it.:cheers:

^ what he said... it depends on your frame i guess... and possibly whatever the local scrap metal yard has in oversized square..

if you want to do suspension work i woild make it same width as the trackwidth of the car your building.... that way yióu can mount the spindles and rearend in the plates all the way outboard.. (and it wont obstruct too much....)

the length.. again same as your car... and have 4 bars across.. and 8 legs, one at each intersection....

and weld some large 3/4 inch nuts to the bottom of the legs so you can level it with 8 3/4 inch bolts as legs.. (make any sense)

and make sure you have a tab where you can mount your welding ground when you work

the height... id shoot for 3 feet

I kinda think if you have the knowledge to build your own chassis, then designing the chassis table should be a snap.

We build our tables 8 ft wide then than car and 20 ft long. We use big square tubing and don't weld the entire table solid, so it stays flatter.

Good luck

How about building a complete bolt-together chasis table? Would there be any problems with leveling and sqauring it up. My only concern would be with bolts becoming loose during the build causing it to become unlevel/unsqaure. Anyone have a bolt-together table?

Roger.... How "level" and how "square" do these have to be? Plus / Minus what? 1/32nd? Just asking. I agree with your statement - if you can build a frame - you'd better be capable of building a square flat level table...

One of the things our club has done is to have "tech sessions" - the welding ones are the most interesting to me (I'm the "instructor") as most people have no idea of the warpage they're causing - and how to control it - etc... they can stick two pieces of metal together - but that's about it... It's fun to watch their faces when you check their work.

Greg - can it ever be too level or Too square?

I'm looking to build a new able this winter with I beam and have a grind of holes water jet into the plate that are then tapped to size so we can have that plate in our solidworks files to build the JIG fixtures to bolt to the table and hold the chassis parts as we go.

Here is link to some amazing jigs and fixtures.

http://www.race-dezert.com/forum/sho...highlight=dump

Apologies if this is a dumb question.... if you don't weld it solid do you bolt it altogether?

These tables are pretty cool. Great for fixturing and the tooling they have available for the table is cool.
They claim it supports 4400lbs.

http://www.stronghandtools.com/pdf_c...ildpro_imp.pdf