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What Kind of Steel Does Siegmund Use For Welding Tables?

Question: Why would a market leader, with a decent product, LIE? Answer: Maybe because their marketing department is out of control and doesn’t care. Background Let’s back up a minute. We purchased multiple 5′ x 10′ Siegmund Imperial Series welding tables. They cost about $10,000 each, and according to Siegmund’s website, in addition to beingContinue reading “What Kind of Steel Does Siegmund Use For Welding Tables?”

John P. · October 17, 2024 · 3 min

Updates

Introducing Our Newest Plasma Cutting Tables

For a long time we’ve been offering our popular 30″x50″ plasma cutting table. It’s a great little tool that makes a huge difference when you need to cut material by hand, or with a small CNC plasma cutting device like the ArcDroid, GoTorch or portable CNC plasma cutters from Amazon. We’ve also had many requestsContinue reading “Introducing Our Newest Plasma Cutting Tables”

Kirk Pozadzides · August 13, 2024 · 1 min

Shop Tips

How to Debur a Laser Cut Hole

If you’ve recently received one of our tables, you might notice that the underside of the laser-cut holes have a slight burr (or you may never notice). This burr is just a tiny rough edge that surrounds the hole, and in 99.9% of all cases it has no bearing on your life. What you willContinue reading “How to Debur a Laser Cut Hole”

John P. · July 31, 2024 · 2 min

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Weld Table Lead Time Statistics

At Texas Metal Works, we’re hyper-focused on continuous improvement. We’re building teams, processes, systems, and designs to make our products the best in the world! In fact, our ISO 9001 processes have us constantly looking at data (and defining our goals and objectives of that data)! We’re often asked, “How long will it take toContinue reading “Weld Table Lead Time Statistics”

Kirk Pozadzides · April 30, 2024 · 2 min

Updates

WOLFRAM Weldstation: The Ultimate Welding Table

Howdy, fellow welders! We’ve been building and refining the concept of professional fabrication tables for years, and we’ve learned a LOT of lessons from that experience. Now we’ve taken all of that knowledge and rolled into a new product that that we believe will make your jobs easier and your welding projects more enjoyable. TheContinue reading “WOLFRAM Weldstation: The Ultimate Welding Table”

John P. · March 13, 2024 · 2 min

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Why We NEVER Have Sales

People often contact us and ask if we have any sales coming up, or if we offer discounts for military, first responders, schools, etc… So I wanted to explain our pricing philosophy. First, to answer the question: we simply don’t discount. Ever. Believe me, we love our service men and women! Several of our familyContinue reading “Why We NEVER Have Sales”

Kirk Pozadzides · March 12, 2024 · 3 min

Shop Tips

Why You Should Level Your Welding Table

At Texas Metal Works we own a very expensive and extremely accurate laser measuring system. It’s the same system used in the aerospace industry, and we use it to test our tables for quality control purposes. Since most people don’t have access to a $100,000 measuring tool, I wanted to share some information that you’llContinue reading “Why You Should Level Your Welding Table”

John P. · November 21, 2023 · 4 min

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Fun Games to Kill Time! (What’s This Doing here? :-)

Sometimes, you just need to have a little fun. So in the interests of Science, we’re posting some little games you can play. For no good reason at all. Enjoy!!! Tetris Click the image to play the game, then use your arrow keys to control the blocks and fill up solid rows to make themContinue reading “Fun Games to Kill Time! (What’s This Doing here? :-)”

John P. · August 21, 2023 · 1 min

Shop Tips

Calculate the Weight of a Steel (or Aluminum) Plate or Sheet

The easiest way to figure out how much a steel plate weighs.

John P. · June 30, 2023 · 1 min

Shop Tips

Which Steel is Better For A Welding Table – A36 VS. A572-50

The one where we explain why in the world you should care about the type of steel a welding table is made out of…

John P. · February 24, 2023 · 6 min

Shop Tips

What is the Flattest Welding Table Surface?

We explain the difference between Fabricated, Milled and Blanchard Ground welding tables. In plain old English!

John P. · February 17, 2023 · 8 min

Updates

How We Build Super Flat Weld Tables

Hard work. Attention to detail. Pride of workmanship. We’ve got no secrets – we want our customers to know what goes into the tables we build. So today I’m outlining how we build our welding tables, and also importantly why we build them this way. (Note: We have a more recent article about the differentContinue reading “How We Build Super Flat Weld Tables”

John P. · May 20, 2021 · 4 min

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