how to make a table from a profile pipe
In fact, making a table frame from a profile pipe is a great idea. It is clear that this is a matter of taste, but from a practical point of view, metal structures have a number of undeniable advantages. We won’t list them all, they are obvious. If you want to learn how to make a table from a profile pipe with your own hands, here are ten specific examples with step-by-step photos. If you don't have much experience working with metal, this is a good opportunity to practice because the projects presented here are quite simple. For example, making a coffee table from a profile pipe or a frame for a dining table is possible even for a novice craftsman.
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I needed a welding table for my workshop. The cost of ready-made professional foreign solutions was “a little” depressing, and the domestic manufacturer did not have tables of the size I needed - they were either too large or too small. So I decided to assemble the table myself. First, I analyzed the experience of domestic table making available on the Internet. The domestic experience had to be discarded right away, because most of it boils down to not spending anything at all, and justifying the resulting craft with the words “well, it’s okay, it turned out crookedly - tea can’t fly into space on it, I’m doing it for myself, not for production.” " I focused on studying Western experience, where do-it-yourselfers approach things a little differently.
I started with design and sketched out a model in SolidWorks.
It was planned to use standard steel profile pipes as the material. The tabletop is 16mm steel plates laid on the table frame through 16mm spacers, so that it is possible to hook the clamps anywhere on the table without resting against the frame. The spacers are welded to the frame, and the tabletop is bolted to them. The distance between the tabletop elements is 40mm. Table dimensions 2100x1700, weight approximately 500 kg.
The frame is made of thick-walled profile pipe 80x40. Due to the lack of other surfaces, it had to be welded directly on the floor. Cooked with TIG, in argon.
The geometry was set using corner clamps. They were also used to level the frame.
The table legs are made from a 40x40 profile pipe. The design is made collapsible to simplify moving “if something happens.” To do this, we had to plasma cut a certain number of rectangular flanges, which were welded to the ends of the parts that form the supports for the frame.
It's time to lay the countertop. First, we had to drill holes in the plates (11 plates x 8 holes = 88 pieces) and spacers (also 88 holes), and then also cut threads in the spacers.
Drilling 16 mm on the machine that we have at our disposal turned out to be somewhat more difficult than planned. Firstly, it is still 16mm steel. Secondly, the machine is not suitable for working with parts of such length, and I had to wriggle around so that the parts could be laid on the machine table. There were no problems with cutting the threads. A very meditative activity: you stand, twist, think about the eternal
