Welding Table Description
Texas Metal Works offers fully fabricated tables shipped FREE – saving you time, hassle, and money! Our 30″ x 60″ welding tables offer over 12.5 square feet of surface area, covered by standard laser cut 5/8″ / 16mm fixturing holes. This table is the perfect size for small to medium fixturing jobs or shops with limited space, and will even roll through a doorway!
The surface is a true 30″ wide and 60″ 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. That makes it possible to increase the work surface to an astonishing 50″ x 80″!
Table Top Features
- A full 30 inch wide x 60 inch long work surface.
- Standard 38″ surface height (Check out Custom Height – Cut To Order).
- 6 inch table sides also allow fixturing.
- Over 740 5/8″ / 16mm compatible tool holes.
- Accommodates Stronghand and similar tooling.
- Available in 1/4″ (A36 HRPO) and 3/8″ (A572-50) thickness table tops with 1/4″ sidewalls and rib structure
- Professionally assembled and guaranteed forever!
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 400 lbs. with legs and casters.
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!
Serious table for serious work
Texas Metal Works tables are not cheap; they are actually quite expensive (compared to box store offerings). That being said, these tables are a great value. Serious tables for those who want to do real quality, serious work. TMW tables are on a completely different level of quality and craftsmanship than the crappy offerings from Northern Tool or Harbor Freight. I am a hack fabricator / welder, but my skill level increased five-fold with this table. The tables were designed by folks who know what the fitter/welder needs to make quality welds: A heavy work platform with no give that is flatter than flat, built for use with a system of stops and clamps that keeps the work in place at the proper angle and position while you weld.
When I bought this table and all the stops and clamps and extensions, I thought that I was spending too much. Splurging. As soon as the table arrived and was outfitted in place, the splurging feeling changed into an investing feeling. A very satisfied feeling. I had invested in a high quality tool ( like buying a good Wilton Machinists vise or a Quincy Air Compressor) that becomes an heirloom. Your son or daughter will also value this table one day if that is their direction. By the way, you really need to get a good array of the stops, clamps, extensions to really unleash the power of these tables. Also, all of the advice provided by the Pozadzides is quite sound and valuable; get the pallet fork extensions for unloading (if you live on a farm), the WD-40 by the gallon for protecting the table, and the magnet handles for lifting and handling the table covers. The table was well packed and delivered, with no surprises thanks to the pallet fork extensions.
Do yourself a favor and invest in a quality fabricating and welding table. Texas Metal Works is it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. The only downside is that you can’t use “crummy equipment” anymore as an excuse for bad welds once you have one!
I struggled for years with a mostly flat table and finally decided it was time. The table itself is very well made and extremely flat. Even after really cranking a piece into square, the table doesn’t budge. My only regret was not buying this table sooner! The Texas Metal Works team was helpful, friendly, and produced a great product. 100% recommended!
I cannot say enough good things about my Texas Metal Works welding table, including the process of purchasing the table. I had shopped a great deal looking for a fab table that would fit my shop, be precise and scalable to match the project work I was doing now and what I might tackle in the future, be durable enough to last years while staying flat and true. I am a home hobbyist and fab a great deal of smaller projects for automotive, artwork, and fixtures. Purchasing the table was a big step for me, but the crew at Texas Metal works made the process easy and simple. Their recommendations for the accessories were spot on, which met my needs then and still do today. The freight and logistics were well communicated and efficient with the assembled weld table arriving on time and no damage whatsoever. I have used the table consistently for more than 3 years no and the weld table is still flat and true, and my work comes off the table the same, flat, true, and precise.
Lastly, I rarely rate any product with 5 stars, but feel I have no choice but to rate the Texas Metal Works weld/fab table a 5.
We love our welding table. We were amazed at how fast it delivered and we were able to get to work immediately. We’ll be back in touch for another when we’re ready!
We are Very glad we made this purchase. The table is true and built very well. Look to purchase again!