I picked up a 4ft x 10ft - 5/8 thick top table from a customer. Handy for all kinds of work. To big for my shop so I had to set it up outside, but worth it! probly weighs 3000 +lbs.
When I worked for Ford I saw a couple of their repurposed old fixture/gauge tables still in use that dated to the '40s. Tables like that turn up for sale around the Detroit area from time to time, but there doesn't seem to be a shortage of people wanting them. I lucked into a good deal on a nice one a number of years ago. I had a boring mill shop cut the top flat, then clean up all four edges and make them square to each other and the top. That gives you a true work surface, and lets you use the edges of the table for layout and accurate positioning. The down side is that you are more careful with it than if it wasn't so nice. Yours looks like a decent one, and it looks like it has enough overhang around the edges to provide a place for clamping(some don't).
cool old table and a neat plaque on it also. I say you scored. That might bring more money at the scrap yard but that would be a waste of a cool table!!
He couldn't duplicate that table (without the cool Stude tag) for three times that! WITHOUT the vise! What kind of vise is that? You should take some close-pics and post them over on Garage Journal: that place is a Vise Cult! There's a "the vises of garage journal" thread over there that's got like 2,000 posts or something stupid. What manufacturer is that one? I don't think I've seen slide shaped like that before. -Brad
And since it's been 3 three years since the original post, he probably would have also if he bought it now.
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