Now that I have a metal brake to build in order to build a storage cabinet I now need to build a half decent welding/fabrication table. My knees are getting too old to mess around welding things on the concrete floor!

Many welding tables have 5/8" holes at 2" centres for clamps and various other tooling. Is there anything special about the 2" spacing? It seems quite close and means drilling many many holes. Would there be anything wrong with using 75mm spacing? I realise that maybe some of my clamps might need to have an additional 1" of reach. There is a huge difference between drilling 1,081 holes versus 465 in a 2400x1200 table.

How big a table do you guys and gals have? It would be nice to have a table 2400x1200 to hold a full sheet of steel but bigger is more costly and takes up more space. Do you get away with smaller tables? Do your tables us the locating holes or are they just flat?

Thoughts are welcomed.


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