You don’t always need a rotary welding table, but when you do there is nothing like it to make welding all around a part easier or cleaner. You can buy them for a lot of money or a little, but the quality of the cheaper ones is always something you question. So what a lot of folks do is build their own. This build here is pretty cool, and different than some, and makes for a rotary welding table that can spin whatever you want to lay some killer tig welds on. It’s made from an old faceplate, some scrap steel plate and angle iron, an old propane tank, some bearings and some electric bits. The way it has been thought out and put together is cool and inspiring for building one yourself. If you follow along you can build this yourself, or just use it as a roadmap for building one that is custom to what you need and to work with the parts you have.

This thing has some great features, is WAY more adaptable than most of the others I’ve seen, and I can see where it would really come in handy when working on certain welding projects.

I like seeing stuff getting put together like this that uses both new parts and scrap stuff, because it is relatable and inspires people to look through their own pile of parts when they need a new custom tool for the shop.

Watch and let us know what you think. And if there are some specific tools you’d like to see get made, let us know what those are and we’ll put them on the list to build when we get the new shop done.