Welders and welding tools...

[dhutton]

I have a couple of welding tables. One has an inch thick top. The other is from these guys. I recommend one as your first fab project:



https://weldtables.com/

Get yourself some clamps too.

Don

[roguegeek]

I have a couple of welding tables. One has an inch thick top. The other is from these guys. I recommend one as your first fab project:

https://weldtables.com/

Get yourself some clamps too.

Don

For starting out, the HF table will work fine. I've used mine on a lot of projects.

As with anything, you can spend as much as you want to spend, but at the end of the day, it is amazing what can be accomplished with basic tools and motivation. I built my Cougar with a minimal assortment of tools, a trusty Dewalt small impact driver. I have the HF welding table and a Eastwood TIG 200. I am not a master welder, but with a little practice I was able to build engine mounts and weld on my aluminum radiator. After 25K miles and 5 years on the road, nothing has fallen off.

Andrew

Thanks, Don and Andrew. I think what I'm going to do is practice this weekend with a bunch of scrap I bought. When I get comfortable, I'm going to go build a basic welding table. Nothing fancy, but it seems like an easy project to get me more seat time with the rig and I ultimately end up with a tool I can use. Good luck to us all.

Here's a tip. I have one large gas bottle that's on the welding cart. But since you always run out of gas on a weekend I bought a small bottle as a back up.

It is a good tip. I just picked up a small bottle. When it's done, I'll go refill it and grab a big bottle as well.

I'm really OCD on having enough storage so rather than buy the standard welding cart I picked up a 44" tool cart and fabbed up a tank stand on the end. It has tons of storage and with some heavy aluminum plate on the top is functions as a welding table as well.

This is something that's been on my mind a lot with these purchases. Just picked up the cart for the 220, but I'm cringing at the space it's going to take up. The footprint of all this new equipment isn't insignificant, so I might look to do exactly what you're doing. Thanks for the feedback.