A real owner, who is not afraid of physical labor, always dreams of mastering the skill of a welder, but for this you need to prepare a workplace, buy a suitable welding machine and free up a corner in the garage or home workshop. A welding table is also useful, the manufacture of which is within the power of your own hands.
A homemade welding table is ideal for providing convenience for both a novice welder and a professional. Naturally, for the manufacture of such a device need to use metal, since the tree will instantly ignite from hot metal splashes during the welding process.
In addition, a steel desktop is much more effective than a wooden counterpart in a number of other parameters. An electric welding grounding cable can be connected to a metal structure, so as not to constantly drag it from one place to another. But before proceeding to the assembly work, it is necessary to decide what materials and tools will be needed to carry out all the activities with your own hands, and what safety measures to adhere to in the work process.
Materials for assembling the welding table
The first thing about the presence of what you need to worry about for the independent manufacture of a table for an electric welder is steel plates from which the shelves will be assembled. I would like to note right away that in the process of acquiring metal blanks, special attention should be paid to their thickness. Experts advise using 3 mm sheet metal, which does not exceed the thickness allowed for welding with a welding machine. In total, two steel blanks with dimensions of 44.5 by 75 cm will be required.In addition to the plates, you will need metal corners cut to a certain length:
- 4 corners 2.5 x 2.5 cm and 460 mm long with ends cut at an angle of 45 degrees;
- 4 blanks from criminals with illogical parameters as in the previous parts, but 760 mm long;
- 4 steel corners 3.2 x 3.2 cm and 915 mm long for table legs.
Also from consumables and accessories you will need the following items:
- 4 wheel supports with threaded connections and nuts to them;
- 4 special nuts for connecting threaded rods;
- 4 locking rings for fastening wheel elements;
- a piece of pipe with a length of 75 mm and a section of 30 mm, if the table will be used for gas welding.
Naturally, to assemble a welding table with your own hands you will need tool from the following list:
- electric welding and all accessories to it: cables, clamps, electrodes, etc.;
- pliers, two squares, construction tape, chalk, ruler and hammer;
- 3 special C-shaped clamps;
- a hacksaw for metal, or better an electric grinder for making cuts at a given angle.
The sequence of self-assembly of the table
After the preparatory process for the purchase of consumables and the preparation of all the necessary tools is completed, you can proceed to the direct assembly of the welding table with your own hands. For this purpose, experts recommend adhere to a certain sequence simple actions.
During the assembly process, you need follow safety regulations, because there is nothing more valuable than human health. When carrying out assembly work, it is important to use protective ammunition: gloves, goggles or a visor.
Precautions when working at the welding table
It is not a secret for anyone that working with a welding machine is accompanied by a certain danger and therefore a person must protect himself from possible troubles when working independently at a work table. Before starting any work, you must consider the following factors:
- It is important to provide high-quality ventilation at the work site. The best option is to install an exhaust ventilation.
- Electric shock protection. For this purpose, it is necessary to work in special welder's gloves and keep them dry at all times.
- Arc protection for eyes. For this, a protective mask or goggles are required.
- Protection of the desktop from metal splashes. Before carrying out welding operations, it is necessary to clear the place of work from any debris, especially flammable. It is necessary to remove the container with paint, sweep the sawdust and especially remove the containers with fuel if the workshop is equipped in a garage.
Also for carrying out welding activities were specially developed protective equipment, without which it is not recommended to start work.
Purchase of a ready-made welder's table
If a person does not want, well, or for some reason is not able to make a welding table with his own hands, he can always purchase a ready-made structure in a store. In this case, the choice should be based on the purpose for which the welder's workplace will be used. If the space in the workshop is limited, and small metal parts will be welded, then you can buy folding table.
A welding table of a rotary structure is considered very convenient and functional, but such a product is quite expensive. Modern welding tables have a rotary drive, which greatly simplifies the welding process. Thanks to the mechanization of welding activities, the quality of the weld is also improved.
The welding table, equipped with a swivel mechanism, allows carry out a full cycle of work without moving. Thanks to the rotation of the workpiece, the welder gains access to any, even hard-to-reach points of a heavy metal part. Welding work carried out at such a workplace is characterized by increased efficiency, quality and safety.
It is quite possible to make the welding process convenient on your own. At the same time, it is absolutely not necessary to make superhuman efforts to this or spend fabulous sums of money. Assembling a welding table is a completely simple process, especially if you follow the recommendations of specialists.
Almost every home workshop should have a welding table, because this is a very necessary fixture. This metal structure is capable of simplifying welding work. And also it will be able to play the role of a ground loop. It is worth assembling the welder's table with your own hands, because this will help beginners get good practice.
Requirements for welding tables
In home workshops, welding and assembly tables must be comfortable for work and as safe as possible. This is due to the fact that welding is characterized by the use of high amperage and high voltage.
Experts advise, when assembling a table for welding with your own hands, adhere to the following recommendations:
If you need to make a welding table with your own hands, the drawings of which are taken from the network, then it is worth considering that the device cannot be made from flammable materials. And also it is worth refraining from using materials that, when burning or soldering, are capable of releasing substances harmful and dangerous to humans.
The optimal height of a homemade product should be about 80 centimeters, and the working surface will be no more than 110 x 85 centimeters. In cases where it is necessary to use a large working area, it is worth making a turntable with your own hands, but it will need to be given additional rigidity.
The main parts of the fixture
Factory welding tables have a fairly simple design and a low price. The simple structure ensures high product reliability. It is also very easy to use.
The main parts of the welder's table are the following components:
It is quite easy to pre-prepare the welder's table for direct use. First, it is worth checking the stability of the entire structure. Using the adjusting feet, it is necessary to set the device so that the working surface is exclusively in a horizontal position. The entire installation structure must be connected to the ground loop. A homemade welding table should provide for the location of a ventilation hood. After completing these procedures, it is necessary to mount the welding equipment and check the operation of all systems.
When the design of the product implies the use of not an inverter, but a different type of equipment, then it is worth using portable ventilation. It is equipped with a long suction and a magnet holder. Thus, it is possible to fix the hood anywhere on the work surface.
DIY construction
Experts advise making a homemade welder's table with dimensions of 1200x660x950 millimeters. These dimensions are considered optimal and allow welding of any complexity.
Necessary materials
To reduce the cost and facilitate the adaptation, the table top is made of plywood sheet. In the future, the product is covered with a thick metal plate.
To assemble a welding table with your own hands, you will need the following materials:
- 10 meters of profile pipe;
- 2 meters of metal strip;
- fastening materials;
- thick steel sheet;
- plywood sheet.
The materials used must be free of rust, and if it is found, then they need to be well cleaned and treated with special means. Blanks for lintels, legs and bed are cut from the profile pipe. It is necessary to chamfer the workpieces using a milling or turning machine. Next, you need to start cooking the frame for the countertop.
Assembling the frame
The sections of the profile pipe, which are prepared for the tabletop frame, are fixed and placed on a flat surface. This part is a large rectangle with several bridges. For this reason, it is worth carefully checking the coincidence of the dimensions of the diagonals of the workpiece. Their maximum permissible deviation should not exceed one millimeter. Such actions will help to correctly assemble and then comfortably operate the welder's table.
Further, the workpieces under the frame are welded with small tacks. The geometry of the device is carefully checked, and then all joints are welded with the main seam. The resulting welds are carefully grinded with a grinder.
Metal strips reinforce all corners of the worktop frame. This is necessary for attaching the legs and other attachments. To do this, you need to chamfer the prepared workpieces, and then weld them from the bottom of the frame in all corners of the table. For the installation of the legs, pads of an iron strip are welded to the upper edge of the frame. Further, it is necessary with the help of special tools to make through holes for fastening the supports.
Then the legs are fixed to the table frame, and side jumpers are installed between them. A tabletop is cut out of a plywood sheet, which is inserted into the frame and covered with an iron sheet. All seams of the product must be treated with special anti-corrosion agents.
In the future, you can improve this device. To do this, small wheels are attached to the legs for easy table movement. And also it is worth mounting additional parts for fixing various blanks, for example, lattices or ladders. Experts recommend attaching a special holder for a gas burner to the upper corner of the product, which can be welded from a piece of metal pipe.
It is quite easy to weld two parts with high quality if, in addition to a good electrical apparatus and a mask with an LCD regulator, good electrodes are purchased, and all work is performed on a convenient welding table. A steel workbench for welding can be bought in a supermarket or a specialized salon, but a more convenient and rational option would be to make a welding table with your own hands for individual preferences, the height and length of the arms.
Types of welding tables
Most do-it-yourselfers are absolutely sure that you can work with a welding machine on a regular workbench or even on a concrete floor. Experienced craftsmen are able to work with a welding inverter, as they say, "on the knee", but even they prefer to work on a special table, especially if a complex spatial structure is required.
For work using welding at home, four main table models are mainly used:
All tables for electric welding, regardless of the scheme, are made of structural steel, most often by welding or using bolted connections. On the side surface of the tabletop or on one of the legs of the table, a contact pad is cut or welded in, to which the zero clamp of the welding machine will be connected.
It remains to lay the workpiece on the table, connect the welding to the network, and you can weld the metal. This is much more convenient than trying to weld a part on a concrete floor or on bricks, when the lion's share of the time has to be spent looking for a place to connect the zero clamp.
Welding table requirement
You cannot make a welding table according to an arbitrary scheme; when choosing a scheme and base device, it should be borne in mind that you have to work with molten and splashing metal and an electric arc of one and a half hundred amperes. Therefore, the design must meet clearly defined requirements:
- The base and the table top are made only of a tubular profile, the table top and the whole structure must be massive enough so that hammer blows or an accidental push, the fall of the part on the working surface does not lead to the structure tipping over;
- Steel legs or supports must be tied up with a lower horizontal strapping from a profile pipe or corner. Thus, it is possible to avoid loosening or deformation of the structure when very heavy or bulky parts are installed on the workplace;
- The working surface is equipped with a grating deck through which hot slag and metal drops freely, without ricochet, fall into a tray with sand or onto a concrete floor;
- The place for welding work must be equipped with an extractor hood. If the work with welding is carried out irregularly, then the metal structure is made mobile or portable, for example, installed on steel wheels with a rubber braid or on rubberized nickels.
For your information! If the welding table is planned to be used for outdoor welding, the supports must be insulated with getinax, rubber or any other dielectric.
If the working or welding plane is sewn up with a solid metal sheet, then the lower tier of the workbench can be equipped with a net or a shelf for storing tools. In professional models of welding fixtures, cradles in the lower tier there are supports for legs or mounting hooks for storing electrodes, hammers, brushes and marking tools.
Welding table structure
The device and layout of the workbench must be selected depending on the height of the person, the nature of the parts to be welded, dimensions and weight. The most important conditions for comfortable work and handling of the welding machine are the following factors:
- Welding table height. In standing working conditions, the tabletop or work surface should be at the level of the welder's belt;
- Countertop dimensions... As a rule, for professional work, the width and length of the working surface of 70-75 cm is chosen. The maximum welding accuracy is achieved if the welding zone is removed no more than ¾ of the length of the welder's arms;
- Welding table dimensions for working in a sitting position, you can copy from a regular home stool or chair, but in this case, the device must be equipped with a protective screen at a height of 70-80 cm in order to avoid sparks and hot slag getting on the legs and clothes of the worker.
Welding and assembly tables
Workbenches and tables used for simultaneous assembly, assembly and welding work conditionally drop out of the general range of equipment for welding. Conventional tables, stands and workpiece holders are made, as they say, in the format of a bedside table, a small square tabletop provides easy access to parts from any side.
In terms of dimensions and tabletop arrangement, welded assembly tables are closer to locksmith's workbenches.
The working surface is made of thick sheet metal with drilled holes for the installation of clamps, mounting clamps or a measuring tool.
Additional devices for fixing workpieces can be located on the tabletop, for example, when welding bulky parts from thin rolled products, you have to install lodgements, base plates, tripods on the table, ensuring reliable retention of the welded edges until the end of assembly work.
Rotary welding table
The turntable workbench is more like a piece of industrial welding equipment. The working surface is made in the form of a solid metal disc with a non-combustible heat-resistant coating, raised above the table bed. The free outer edge of the disc allows you to fix the parts to be joined anywhere in the welding fixture.
As a rule, special beacons or markings are applied on the tabletop, which allow the axes of rotation to be aligned as accurately as possible and to avoid beating of the welded seam in the process of turning the part. This is the most complex version of the welding fixture, but sometimes you simply cannot do without such a table. For example, if you want to weld an annular seam on a cylinder, a round stove body, connect the blanks of two steel pipelines. In this case, the welding table must be equipped with a rotary belt drive. Due to the rotation of the table top, the welder can weld a heavy seam without changing his position relative to the fixture, which is very important for ensuring high quality welding.
Simple welding table
The simplest version of the table can be made according to the diagram shown in the photo. The frame base is welded from two sections of I-beam No. 70. Legs 60-65 cm high can be made from a square shaped tube. For the manufacture of the countertop, you will need ten meters of I-beam No. 50 or five profile pipes 40x60 mm.
The pipe is cut with a grinder along a short edge into two halves, grinded and welded onto the finished frame.
The result is a very reliable and comfortable welding stage on which most of the welding work can be done.
Semi-professional welder table
To make welds in higher-level products, a more sophisticated welding table is required. One of the models of modern devices is shown in the photo. Structurally, the table differs from any others only by the presence of height-adjustable supports and a special tabletop device.
The work surface is made of perforated lamellas. A set of steel angles will provide a reliable fixation on the welding table of the workpiece even the most complex configuration.
Required tools and materials
To make a full-fledged welding table, you will need a profile pipe 70x70x3.5 mm, a set of roller supports and a sheet of thick metal. From the tools you will need a welding inverter, a table saw for cutting metal and a marking tool.
Cutting metal can be done with a manual grinder, but you will not be able to get the much-needed perfectly straight cut angle, so you will have to cut the profile pipe and strips of the tabletop using a table or stationary saw.
Welding table drawings
The structure of the welding table consists of two main parts - a support frame and a table top. The frame can be made from a channel or pipe, if the welding table is supposed to be made mobile, then it is best to use a profile pipe or steel angle.
The frame of the welding table is reinforced in the lower part with an H-shaped strapping made of a profile pipe.
For stationary welding tables, the worktop and protective box are best mounted on a brick frame. The most unusual options for a welding table are in the form of a folding structure or a folding table mounted on the wall of a garage or workshop.
Most often, for a regular garage or workshop, a welding table is made with a sheet metal worktop. In this case, it can be used both for welding and locksmith or repair. Therefore, the angular zones of the working plane are used to install plumbing yews, devices for cutting and drilling metal. Basically, the best homework welding table option is a combination of a locksmith workbench with a little extras for connecting a welding machine.
Manufacturing of a welding table
The process of making the table begins with cutting the purchased square pipe. The frame and the frame of the table are made of 70x70 mm square tube. It depends on how accurately the cutting and assembly of all parts of the frame will be performed, whether the entire structure will be sufficiently stable.
Table legs
The first four pieces of 80 cm long square pipe cut off will be used to make the support legs or table legs. Pre-tube blanks are assembled on a steel plate in one package, cut and trimmed so that the length of all legs is kept accurate to the millimeter.
The supporting part of each leg must be fitted with a thick metal plate to which the swivel wheels or casters will be attached. Cut out of steel - five plates are immediately drilled under the wheel fasteners and welded onto the legs.
According to the selected dimensions, we cut out the details of the supporting part of the frame of the welded table.
We align the workpieces laid out on concrete along the corners - calibers and fix with clamps. The frame is welded with dots using a semiautomatic device or conventional electric welding.
After the metal parts have been seized by small welds, it is necessary to allow the structure to cool down and check the geometry of the legs again. It is necessary that the racks are in a strictly vertical position, and the distances between them on opposite sides differ by no more than 1-2 mm.
The next step is to make the lower tier of the table. Its design is somewhat different from the traditional corner strapping, as is done in the case of assembly for carpentry and locksmith's workbenches.
The frame of the welding table is reinforced in the lower part with an H-shaped strapping made of a profile pipe. This design of the lower tier provides a comfortable leg position when working with parts laid on the welding table. Nothing hinders the transfer of the center of gravity far forward, as a result, it becomes possible to weld the most complex and delicate products.
Countertop manufacturing
After removing the scale from the parts and installing the support rollers, the frame of the welding table is painted with heat-resistant paint. The worktop is best made of steel sheet with a thickness of at least 5 mm. The large thickness of the metal ensures that the work surface does not deform or bubble out when heated too much.
The countertop slab is cut out according to the drawing and laid on the finished frame. Before welding, it is necessary to check for gaps and adjust the support points so that the table top rests on all four points of the base. The metal plate is fixed with a clamp and welded to the frame with a carbon dioxide semiautomatic device.
Protective box
The main enemies of an experienced welder - dust, slag and scale inevitably accumulate on the worktable. Sometimes the remnants of the emulsion and large drops of molten slag must be removed from the worktop even before the end of the work.
For these purposes, a protective box is added to the tabletop; it can be made of galvanized steel or ordinary roofing metal. The place for installing the protective box on the table is selected depending on the preferences of the welder.
Welding safety
When carrying out welding work, first of all, you need to be extremely careful to avoid electric shock and poisoning when welding parts with a zinc or cadmium coating. For safe work, a sheet of asbestos or getinax is usually laid on the table, on which you can lay the welding wrench without turning off the inverter.
Conclusion
The manufactured table meets all the requirements for industrial equipment and accessories when carrying out work using any type of welding. For safe work, you will need to add a rubber mat, a toolbox and a properly working ventilation system and autonomous lighting to the table.
The home welding table should be the most functional. It is best to try to assemble a combined structure that is suitable not only for welding, but also for other installation work.
In domestic conditions, welding tables should be not only convenient for work, but also absolutely safe, since the work associated with welding is characterized by the use of a rather high current strength and high voltage. To get a design that will meet all the necessary requirements:
- This table must be equipped with an exhaust hood, due to which the removal of dust and gases generated during welding will be ensured. The hood is additionally equipped with a socket, which is equipped with a fine mesh made of the finest wire;
- The fan is installed from the end of the table, as a rule, on the left - at a height of about one and a half meters;
- The edging of the structure is made of copper strips. It is very convenient to beat off the welding agate that covers the electrode;
- A special homemade panel is also taken, with the help of which local lighting will be provided. It is worth noting that the maximum voltage of this luminaire should be a maximum of 36 V, so a special step-down transformer will need to be used for its manufacture;
- The welder's table implies the presence of rotary cassettes, one of which is intended for storing electrodes, and the other is intended for all kinds of auxiliary tools - a steel brush, a hammer, and so on;
- Closed compartment where you can put all the equipment if it will not be used too regularly;
- Mount for grounding device.
When it becomes necessary to assemble a table for welding with your own hands, it should be borne in mind that it is strictly forbidden to assemble it from combustible elements or from materials that, during the heating process, will release toxic substances into the environment.
The height of the welding table should be in the range from 70 to 85 cm, and the area of the working area will be a maximum of 100x80 cm. The rotary welding table is made in case it is required to use as large an area as possible. However, when making a welding table of this type, it must be remembered that it will need to be given a certain rigidity.
Main structural elements
Standard welder tables have a simple structure and low cost. A simple device ensures the reliability of this design, moreover, it is very convenient to use. The key ingredients are as follows:
- Frame manufactured from angle steel. This ensures the reliability of the welding and assembly tables;
- Height-adjustable supports in the amount of six pieces;
- On the left side of the table there is a curbstone, in the structure of which there are several compartments designed for storing equipment and related tools;
- The installation of a special plate is provided, which will be very useful in the production of welded joints. It contains grooves made in the shape of the letter T, which can be used to fasten parts that will be connected to each other;
- On the right side is a system of open shelves for temporary storage of frequently used equipment;
- Dust collection tray;
- Retaining structure for cables, which can be located at the back or side of the table;
- A container for water or a reliable stand for it.
It is not too difficult to prepare the welding and assembly table for direct use. At the first stage, you should check how stable this structure is. Due to the height-adjustable supports, you need to bring it out so that its working surface is strictly in the horizontal plane. It is imperative that this assembly structure be grounded. A do-it-yourself welding table should provide for the correct location of the ventilation suction.
When all these operations are completed, you need to install the welding machine and check if all systems are working correctly.
If the welding and assembly structure of the table does not imply the use of an inverter, but other equipment, you will have to use a mobile fan. It must be equipped with a minimum of two-meter suction and a magnetic holder so that it can be easily fixed on the work surface.
What materials and tools will you need?
Welding and assembly tables are not too complicated in production, so you don't have to use something special for them:
- The welding machine itself and consumables for it - electrodes, a gas cylinder, and so on;
- Two squares - regular and carpentry;
- Roulette about three meters long;
- Four C-shaped clamps;
- Nippers;
- A hacksaw for metal, for convenience, you can use an angle grinder instead of it%
- Thread tap;
- Drill with matching drills;
- Milling cutter or turning equipment for chamfering;
- Steel sheets, pipes, strips;
- Hardware - bolts, nuts and so on.
Methods of work
In domestic conditions, the tabletop can be made of durable plywood, which is then sheathed with a metal sheet, whose thickness should be about 5 mm. All metal elements are carefully checked for rust. If traces of it were found, then they will have to be cleaned up. From the pipe, you need to cut blanks for the legs and lintels of the future assembly table - two blanks will be 1.1 m long, the same amount 0.66 m each, four 0.9 m long.
All these parts need to be chamfered and welded together. When the structure is ready, cut out a tabletop of the required size from a sheet of plywood and sheathe the top of the table with it. Now a steel sheet of the same size is cut out and laid on top of the plywood.
The table can be additionally reinforced with metal inserts. It is advisable to remove a chamfer from the tabletop with a grinder to remove sharp edges. Basically, the welding table is ready for direct use at home, for installation in a shed or garage.
If welding is used occasionally, convenience can be neglected, but with a professional approach to performing work in a home workshop, you need to take care of acceptable conditions. We will tell you how to make a do-it-yourself welding table. In the described design, the upper part is removable.
Procurement and cutting of material
We will make a large table to weld metal doors and frames. A sheet of metal 1250 × 2500 mm, 3 mm thick was purchased. We decided to make the base for the countertop slightly smaller than the sheet - 1150 × 2500 mm.
Since the mass of manufactured doors is considerable, we use profile pipes 50 × 40 mm, with walls 2.5 mm. For the manufacture of the upper part and partitions, a profile pipe 50 × 25 mm was purchased. Shelf supports will be made of 15x15 mm square bar.
Decide on the size of the table
Everything is clear with the upper part - we make it to the size of the sheet, and the lower supporting part (frame) can be made shorter.
From the purchased material, you need to cut workpieces of a certain size.
Table frame 
| № | Pipe size (mm) | Quantity, pcs.) | Length (cm) | The purpose |
| 1 | 50 × 40 | 2 | 50 | top support |
| 2 | 50 × 40 | 4 | 60 | legs |
| 3 | 50 × 40 | 2 | 110 | lower horizontal crosspiece at the end of the table |
| 4 | 50 × 25 | 4 | 160 | side bar |
| 5 | 50 × 25 | 2 | 42 | jumpers between legs |
Top, removable part 
A 15x15 mm square bar will serve as a support for the shelves and will be welded last.
In the lower and upper horizontal jumpers of the table frame, a hole is drilled with a Ø10.5 mm drill, 5 cm away from the edges. Legs with wheels will be fixed at the bottom, and a removable tabletop on top.
Assembly
A welding table from a profile pipe is not assembled by hand, but a flat surface is already needed. In our case, a manufactured metal door was used. The parts for the first leg were laid out on it, and fixed with magnetic corners.
As a jumper, we used pipe cuttings - we will weld the support for the shelf to it. The correctness of the frame assembly is checked with a tape measure - the distances along the axes must match. 
Welding was carried out with a CO apparatus - this is more convenient. 
We collect the frame on tacks, then we completely scald it. 
The second part is assembled in the same way. 
Now we will completely weld the bed, and weld a 15 × 15 mm bar along the lower edge of the horizontally located pipes - it will serve as a support for the shelf. When using thin plywood for the manufacture of shelves, you need to take care of one more support by welding it in the center. A piece of round reinforcement is welded from the ends to hang the tool. We will also install the legs with wheels. 
Let's start assembling the frame. Once again, we lay out everything on our makeshift table, setting the corners and checking the alignment. 
First with tacks, and then every detail is thoroughly welded.
Since the table is collapsible (partially), you need 4 bolts and 8 nuts Ø10 mm. The bolts must be inserted into the frame (shown in the illustration).
Now we will join the 2 manufactured parts. The upper frame must be bolted to the same position as it will be when finished.
Having fixed the parts with a clamp, you need to weld the bolt heads to the supports of the upper frame with tacks.
The frame must be carefully removed so as not to break off the bolts and weld them thoroughly.
Having returned the frame to its place, a Grover washer is put on the bolt inside the pipe, and thoroughly clamped with a nut. It is convenient to perform this operation with a spanner wrench, but if there is none, then the lower nut is tightened by hand, and the upper nut is clamped with an open-end wrench.
We need a flat area, so the protruding parts of the seams are removed with a grinder with a roughing disc.
We fix the wheels so that the table remains stationary, because a heavy sheet of metal needs to be laid on it.
The work is easier to do with an assistant, but you can do it yourself. One edge of the sheet rests on the table, and then the second rises, and the metal is pushed up.
cover the top frame with a sheet, we get a tabletop
The sheet needs to be leveled, but you cannot hit it with a hammer - dents will remain. Better to use a block of wood or hammer on metal through a plank. 
Before welding, the sheet is attached to the frame with clamps, and the middle must be pressed down with a weight or a bag of cement, otherwise the metal may lead when heated. 
Now you can weld on. 
We looked at how to make a welding table, but now it needs to be brought up to condition. The working surface of the table was cleaned of rust. 
After cutting the pipes, burrs remained in each of them, which can be removed with a file. 
Since alkyd enamel perfectly protects various metal surfaces from corrosion, they opted for it. It will not turn out very nicely with a brush, but there is no spray bottle, so we bought paint in cans. 
To keep the wheels unpainted, they were protected by wearing plastic bags. 
After the paint has dried, you can remove the bags from the legs. 
The ends of the pipes are closed with plastic plugs. 
Shelves are cut from a sheet of plywood according to the internal size of the frames, and inserted into place. 
The table is ready - it was possible to cook large structures on it, and, thanks to the wheels, bring it directly to the car. 
Although the assembled structure is intended for making large parts, a small turntable welding table can be bolted to the side.
The manufacturing process is quite simple.
Once the part is secured to the turntable, it can be tilted for easy cooking.
The owner of such a convenient and multifunctional table will be able to work in comfortable conditions.