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Old 02-26-2013, 10:59 PM
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Hey guys I thought that I would share my one of my favorite favorite tools in my shop. The whole idea of this fixture table was to have something that was index-able and not to need a bunch more specialty tools to use it.
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The table is a 8000lb lift table with a 1/2in plate top and the fixture top is 2x3 tubing with extruded aluminum from 80/20inc, it has T slots on all sides so your can slide your fixture pieces anywhere you need.
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Here with a few bends the setup holding the rear tubes is just more of the extruded aluminum with some T nuts slid into place and some angle iron that is drilled and pinned the vise grips just make sure that the whole section stays on the pins.
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Fenders can be held in almost any position
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With the whole thing on a lift table I can adjust the height of the work piece up to chest high so no sitting on a stool hunched over
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Now with my model A chassis cleaned and it was disassembled it was ready for final welding of some parts but the screw jacks from my little mid rise lift will fit the fixture table so the chassis can be leveled and jigged up. One thing I think that needs added to this set up is a set of legs so that the fixture top can be unbolted from the lift table and lower the table out of the way so that a chassis can be turned upside down while still jigged up. So what do you guys think?

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Old 02-27-2013, 06:13 AM
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I love it. Another exhibition of economic intellect.

Nice table, and I love the car frame.
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Old 02-27-2013, 07:40 AM
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Looks a nice piece of kit. I'm also in the process of building a chassis jig but paying work is holding up progress. The thing is, once you've got it, it can be used for many other tasks.

EDIT: was this table in another thread earlier as I seem to remember it from somewhere else.
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Old 02-27-2013, 07:59 AM
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very nice pat. how much did the 80/20 cost?
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Old 02-27-2013, 08:42 AM
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Pat is one of those 'stealth' guys. He doesn't talk much, doesn't write much, but man his brain is always in gear.

Nice job Pat.
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That is cool...
and so is that Model A Frame... Some clever stuff going on there as well..!!
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Old 02-27-2013, 09:30 AM
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I just remembered that I read it as I was having breakfast this morning and was going to reply but didn't have time, that's how I'd seen it before
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We used those a lot in a automotive clay modeling/design studio i used to work at.
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Thanks guys!! This table is just to useful to keep to my self. Brent I think all of the aluminum t-slot stuff and a big box of fixture parts was around $550, hopefully I get a prospective job where this table will really shine a local guy has a blown apart 29 chevy sedan that just fell in a pile he wants to make it into a bantam type dragster body where the cowl and windshield frame will stay with the chassis and the rest will flip up out of the way stay tuned for that one.

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Pat,

I'm working out what to build for a chassis/frame/fixture table, and have a couple questions. Where did you find the aluminum extrusion?

Rather than leave it open so you could clamp to it with C clamps, you backed it up with 1/2 in steel. Why?

What provisions did you make for leveling the table after it's been moved up or down?

Like yours, mine will be mounted to a lifting table - auto scissor lift. I too found that being able to get the work to a better height saves on the back.
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