As anyone who is building or has built a hotrod, street rod, or anything with wheels for that matter knows that establishing a proper base to work from is extremely important. Before starting R2, my next mid-engine car, I wanted to re-design and fabricate a new extremely rigid, yet mobile frame table to build the vehicle on. I had built an basic table/jig for Rhythm, but it had several short comings. It wasn't mobile, taking dimensions from a set datum was difficult because it was too narrow and it was really only good for one car.
Here are some photos of the new table my dad and I built. It's fully adjustable in all 3 planes allowing it to be used for various projects/vehicles as well as being mobile.
Assembling the frame table. The main longitudinal beams are 15ft long - the cross members with fully adjustable legs/pads are 6ft across.
The table is kept square with the use of triangulation gussets which work on a friction system. Once the bolts are tightened...thats it...she's not going anywhere. To move the table around, the rear legs pop out and wheels slip into the pockets.
With a comfortable height set, sliding jigs are being created to mount the engine/trans, seats, and suspension components. And when another project needs to come into the bay, the wheels can be installed within a few minutes and the table with what ever is sitting on top is rolled out.
Thanks for looking.
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Nick M.
A journey in design and fabrication begins with a vision, a single pen stroke ... and in some cases the blow of a hammer.
Looks good. What'd that steel cost ya?? Looks real heavy duty.
Thanks Slab. If I can remember all the steel to fab this thing came out to around $500. Plus a few days to get it together. Not too bad when you consider you only have one time to get your basics right for the car to go down the road straight. Once the table has been leveled front to back and side to side using the threaded pads she doesn't move...
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Nick M.
A journey in design and fabrication begins with a vision, a single pen stroke ... and in some cases the blow of a hammer.
500 seems like a great investment...I would have thought more?? Thanks for post'n the pics. Hope to see some pics as the project continues.
Yeah, for materials thats not too bad. If you had a steel fabrication shop build this with all the up/down & side to side adjustments I'm sure it would be considerably more. I've been meaning to get something like a thread journal started for the car I'm building from scratch...some of the guys have probably seen it already. Hopefully soon.
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Nick M.
A journey in design and fabrication begins with a vision, a single pen stroke ... and in some cases the blow of a hammer.
