Custom aluminum table welding (TIG)

This video follows the building of a customized worktable for a robotics installation. It involved 78 some welds, mostly consisting of butt or tee joints.
The table was made from 2" square channel with a wall thickness of 1/8". The tabletop is 1/2" thick aluminum measuring 2' x 4'.

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Science & Technology

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• tig
• gtaw
• weld

[acewelding]

with the design work and the speed you weld, was there any profit in the job?

[wccti]

no profit here...this table was made to match the existing ones used in a large robotics workcell (partially shown at the end). It was welded together by a student in a project class that semester, if I recall he worked on it off-and-on for about two weeks. Cost around $500 in materials.

[HeadShotHache]

What is that program you had used Plz repond

[wccti]

that was made with the program Autodesk Inventor. It's not required for a reasonably straightforward weldment like this, but the 3D model was used in a larger recreation of the workcell being installed.

[wccti]

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Most of the weld symbols have a butt weld along with the weld made on top of it. The tabletop welds measured 0.125 x 0.375, 3" long with a gap of 18.5 between them. The next three symbols were a combination of butt welds (0.25 sq) with fillets on top (0.25 x 0.25). The ones on the end of the legs were fillet welds measuring 0.125 x 0.25, welded all around.

I'm not sure if the symbols were perfect but you can always check with google!