Measure it up, check square and levelness before getting super gung ho. Only as good as the builder was.
I want to make one! If I do I'll make it at work on my blu co jig table . Good score like said check to make sure it's square and level across the top. Then get some legs.
Certainly looks to have possibilities. What I'm wondering is with what appears to be a very heavy framework wouldn't the axle/springs/wheels/tires almost be at their load limit without anything on the trailer? Lynn
I think you are correct, all it has to do is roll around the house and get hidden in the back yard, frame work is a good year away. Bob
If it's basically straight n level, adding 6 leveling jacks will do the trick. Somebody put a lot of effort into *your* now-easily-portable-ch***is jig. I like it. Repurposing at it's best. Good on you. Hope you grab it. & use it. I know you've got the projects... . Marcus...
Bob, If you make that a mobile frame table your circle of friends will increase because we all need something at some point in time and I used a buddy’s, at his shop. Cliff
The drawback I see is the width, and by the time you make modifications to it, it might be simpler to make one from scratch. The one I have been using for over 30 years, is a large I-beam with cross tubes and has 6 leveling feet, it's also on wheels. The thing I like about it is, the ability to lean over, and crawl under the perimeter of the ch***is, and get close to the work. Just my thoughts.
Bob,get some of the guys around CT and put your heads together and with some sweat equity you should have a great mobile frame table and it could also be used for a big banquet table at the next BBQ. HRP
Bob a few years ago in the winter I bought some steel and made a frame table that I could dis***emble, which took a little extra effort. I do not have room in the shop to leave it ***embled at all times. I dis***embled it and put along side my shop with some construction equipment such as aluminum ladders, two scaffold pics, two body jigs all adjustable I built in the 80s, the long center section for my rotisserie, and since I live in a rural area with what I thought was a very low crime rate I thought no big deal. I came home one day after being gone for a few hours and it was all gone. They even went in my enclosed trailer and stole a milk crate with ratchet straps so they could secure the load as they drove away. When I made a police report and had the sheriff out to the house they said they were quite sure it went to the s**** yard. All sold for peanuts. I am still pissed off (mainly about the labor more than the money) and it has been a few years. Yours is mobile, hope you have better luck.
Good eye. Nice repurpose! Most of us don't have the room in our home shop for a permanent frame table, or would use one often enough to warrant building one. I like the idea that it's portable. It's like owning a car trailer; share it with friends or rent it out.
My 1932 frame is in four pieces plus the boxing plates & X member, I think I need a frame table, this one was free. Bob
I keep looking at the frame on the 51.1-1/2 ton Chev I have but my daughter has laid claim to that truck. Straight and heavy rails that would be easy to put legs under. Sent from my VS988 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
IMO... Get a 4' x 8' x 3/4" composite, cut it in half, trim the front to 1" wider than the cowl on both sides... this will let you slide either half back so you can get in and stand or sit to work the inner stuff... handy that you can trace the outline of the subfloor onto the wood with a sharpie... I would leave the same center opening in your jig... set it up so you can remove the jig's leg extensions, tall for the frame and subfloor, patch panels, lower it to work the upper body panels... if you don't have dolly wheels weld skids on the bottom of the legs... if they curl up enough on the edges you can slide it around the garage or even outside if needed... hope it helps, BOB. pix if needed.
This is my table. 2x6 siderails and 2x4 stretchers. Most everything else is whatever I had. I built this years ago and is within a few thousandths still. Over a hundred frames built on this one and counting.
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