small table/big table

This project started out with me thinking I needed to buy a mill and put it in my 12x8 shop space. I decided, though, that the first thing a shop really needs is a welder, because a lot of time setting up a shop is spent making furniture and stuff, and a welder is super important. So I picked up a little Miller Maxstar that will run on 110 (it gets more amperage on 220 but I don’t really need it). Then I went to buy steel to make the table for the mill, and found out that I could only buy whole plates of quarter inch sheet metal. So one desk became two.

I still haven’t bought the mill, but the welder found a nice home on the smaller table, and when the Hayward Fault goes, I can dive under the big table. I’m fairly sure it’ll hold the house up away from me. All the support structure is 2” box tube, with 1/8th” walls. The big table has castors that touch the ground when the leveling feet are screwed all the way up, to make moving it easier (photo 2 shows the bracket for the castor).