[TheForge] Poor mans platen table

Sun Apr 6 22:00:00 2003

Shannell,

Use hardware cloth instead of plate and you won't collect the trash you
would on a plate.

Bobby Hart
Griffin, GA

At 09:55 AM 4/7/03 +0930, you wrote:
>Ralph you have some round pins in your table on your website, are these
>hammered in? or are they a perfect enough fit that you can just push them
>in? I was thinking of putting a plate under this 3/4" platen plate so I can
>drop pins in and they will rest on the lower plate, looks like from your
>pics you dont have anything beneath yours?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ralph Sproul" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: 25 March, 2003 11:58 PM
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Poor mans platen table
>
>
>>         Shannel, anything works that has holes to drop in fixtures.  It
>> sounds like the price is right.  The platen's have a benefit of wieghing
>> 2400 lbs so they don't move.  Your table will be about 400-500 so it will
>> slide when pulling long stock against it.  a couple pins in the floor
>could
>> stop that.
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 8:00 PM
>> Subject: [TheForge] Poor mans platen table
>>
>>
>> > I found a 3/4" 5' x 5' plate the other day at a used machinery place,
>with
>> > looks like 1" square holes on a 5" grid. Would I loose anything using
>this
>> > as a platen table, being only 3/4 thick I mean? Was $200, Id like a new
>> work
>> > table and this could be a good start.
>> >
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