Welding Table Overview Video
Welding Table Description
Texas Metal Works offers fully fabricated tables shipped FREE – saving you time, hassle, and money! Our 30″ x 40″ welding tables offer over 11 square feet of surface area, covered by standard laser cut 5/8″ / 16mm fixturing holes.
The surface is a true 30″ wide and 40″ long, and the 6″ sidewalls allow for additional fixturing outside of the table dimensions. For even MORE room, you can always add one or more of our welding table extensions.
Table Top Features
- A full 30-inch wide x 40-inch long work surface with 6″ sidewalls.
- Available in 1/4″, 3/8″ and 1/2″ (A572-50) thickness table tops with 1/4″ sidewalls and rib structure.
- Standard 38″ surface height (Check out Custom Height – Cut To Order).
- Over 425 precision CNC cut holes (5/8″ / 16mm).
- Accommodates Stronghand and similar tooling.
- Professionally assembled and guaranteed forever!
Optional Table Base Features
- 2in x 16 gauge tubular steel legs and cross bracing.
- Optional Casters: 5″ swivel and fixed casters with Total Lock Brakes rated over 800 pounds per wheel. Non-marking polyurethane wheels with iron hubs.
- Optional Leveling Feet: Glass-fibre reinforced tube ends and self-leveling swivel stud feet.
- Weighs approximately 300 lbs. with legs and casters.
Table Customizations
- Check out our line of BASE SHELVES, DRAWERS, EXTENSIONS, and REMOVEABLE COVERS.
- For fixturing and productivity, check out our: RISER BLOCKS, FAB SQUARES, and SUPER SLOT ACCESSORIES.
- Need a splash of color and some anti-rust protection, check out POWDER OPTIONS
- Need a custom height table (standard top is 38″)? Check out Custom Height (Cut To Order)
Welding Table Components
Complete tables are built from dozens of laser cut parts, which is just one key component to the overall accuracy of the finished product. Sure, our CNC machines can maintain accuracy to within .002″, but let’s face it – a stack of parts isn’t going to perfectly fabricate itself!
Welding Table Construction
Read our full article: How We Build Super Flat Welding Tables
The strength of a Texas Metal Works weld table comes from the interlocking series of ribs supporting the surface. These precision cut ribs lock together and also interlock with the table surface.
As you might guess, fabricating a huge table with precision requires extraordinary effort and a lot of practice. But we also augment our fabricator’s experience with the best tools available. In addition to using 142 bolts, 132 feet of threaded rod, 63 fixturing plates and making hundreds welds – we also fabricate all of our table on a heavy duty milled reference surface!
You can read a complete discussion of our welding table build process here, but the short version is that we start out by securely bolting every table top directly to a precision-milled surface.
Only after securing the top to a reference surface do we add the ribs and sidewalls and secure them by bolting everything firmly in place before locking it in with hundreds of weld points.
At the end of the day, we’re not happy until we can lay a level across the surface and visually verify that there is almost no (or none whatsoever) daylight peeking through.
Related Information
- How to Keep Welding Tables from Rusting.
- Accessories that work well with our welding tables.
- Understanding welding table flatness.
Notes on Shipping
As you can imagine, these massive tables can be a little challenging to ship and receive. When we ship any of our tables the carriers require us to put them on a pallet. But normal pallets won’t work, so we manufacture custom pallets specifically for shipping these bad boys.
Each table is bolted directly to a custom pallet with heavy-duty hex head screws to ensure it stays put during transport. If you choose the option with casters or purchase accessories, they’ll be placed in a box and safely strapped to the pallet.
Blue heat shrink wrap is used to protect the tabletop against dust and water. It also serves as the perfect visual indicator of topside damage resulting from delivery. We encourage customers to fully inspect their tables upon delivery and before signing the trucking company’s Bill of Laden.
Pallets are loaded onto a truck at our dock via forklift, and we use long fork extensions to put them in the truck. Shipping companies only carry a small pallet jack on the truck, and those jacks can reposition many of our tables up to our 40×80 size. Larger tables can’t easily be moved via pallet jack. So on the receiving end, it’s going to require a similar setup for unloading purposes. Please note: If you don’t have a forklift, you’ll need to purchase optional Liftgate Services.
At a bare minimum, you’ll need 48″ forks to lift the table out of the truck. For our 40×80 or larger tables, we recommend 72″ or 84″ fork extensions. Amazon sells a bunch of extensions in case you need them. We’ve used these 72″ fork extensions to get the job done, and these 84″ fork extensions work even better. When buying forklift extensions pay particular attention to the width of your forks to make sure you get the right size!
If you can get heavier-duty fork extensions we HIGHLY recommend it! Especially if you order your table along with several accessories that will ship on top. The tables plus accessories can often exceed 1,000 pounds, and the light-duty extensions may flex or bend. Please contact us if you have any concerns about receiving, or if we need to make special plans to get things delivered safely!
30″ Wide Table: Casters or Leveling Feet (Not Both)
Customers should choose between casters or leveling feet on any 30″ wide table. The picture below reveals the problem with incorporating both. Incorporating both casters and leveling feet creates a potential tipping hazard for tables as the inset leveling feet are only 4.875″ apart.
Alternatively, you can retrofit our table by welding two extra cross braces on the longer side and add our Self-Leveling Feet (4 Pack for 5″ Casters) or Self-Leveling Feet (6 Pack for 5″ Casters). With longer tables, you should have ample space even after accounting for the caster rotation.
Excellent quality and my only complaint is that I now want another one (but bigger).
Highly functional welding table and it looks great. Moves around the garage easily
I spent a great deal of time researching welding tables and all of the accessories available for them. I am very pleased I went with the Texas Metals Works table for my shop. The fit and finish was absolutely flawless and the quality of accessories offered was second to none. I had a few questions and was able to call and to talk with John, he was able to answer all of my questions and his customer service was another big selling point. I was very impressed with the packaging, my table came secured to a custom built pallet and all of the accessories were strapped to the pallet and the whole table was shrink wrapped, not flimsy pallet wrap but actual shrink wrap like they use on boats. It made it through three different freight carriers and arrived in Alaska without damage.
I bought this table for my Dad for Christmas, and I’ve got to say I am very pleased with it, the build quality is phenomenal, good heavy duty casters and they were quick to ship it out, dealing with customer service to set up shipping was a pleasant experience as well. I would definitely recommend there products.
Love the table! Can’t wait to use it. Exceeded expectations and the casters are HEAVY duty which we appreciate! Great job on shipping it ensuring it will make it here with no issues! Great customer service when I had spoke to them prior to shipping!