DIY Welding Project How To Make Welding Fixture Clamps
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- DIY Welding Project How To Make Welding Fixture Clamps. If you have a welding fixture table or you decided to follow my video and build your own welding fixture table than you know you need a good set of clamps. Previously I showed you how to make a set of F-clamps and in this episode I am going to show you how to modify a set of budget C-clamp locking pliers at a fraction of what it would cost to buy. These are great beginner welding projects.
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It was super nice to meet you in Waterville today you are really nice guy in person too keep up the great work you have taught me alot on your Channel thanks Gabe
Thanks man! After I walked out I started thinking that I wish I had some stickers on me for occasions like that. I appreciate you supporting the channel brother. It means a lot!
I'm curious who calls a 3x3 ft piece of half inch plate scrap? Around here metal suppliers are currently calling it 300 bucks!! Lol Great idea with the clamps though!
Thanks man! Yah my local shop has piles of scrap that they were selling for 25 cents a pound. I'm not sure how they determine what gets sold by the pound vs by the foot but I think I paid somewhete around 30 bucks for it 😎
$.25 a lbs is a killer price. New metal sales at one point here in Cali were $.55 lbs.
Yah prices are still pretty high here also but hopefully things start to normalize soon
I got a 4’x4’ 1/2” plate steel piece of scrap for $50. In Austin Tx. It can be done ,just don’t do business at places that rip you off.
@@joebob7344 when was this?
"The kitchen's got a lot of good welding supplies in it." ....Top tier content
@Clayton Creager it sure does lol 🤣🤣🤣
Great, tank you for taking the time to show us how to weld I am starting school in 3 weeks! I learn a lot from you!
Adam from San Francisco
Thank you so much Adam! I appreciate your support! Good luck with school buddy! @Adan A. Arriaza S.
Nice, Brandon.
Quick tip, McMaster-Carr part number 6628K324 is an undersized 1144 steel 5/8" rod. A foot of it is just under $7. That and a pack of 5/8 ID washers welded on top of the cut pieces and you have your mounting stubs for about $0.75 each.
Great tip buddy! Thank you!
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No problem, bud!
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It doesn't cost anything to set up an account with McMaster-Carr or MSC industrial supply, so those are the first two places I set up my accounts with.
I had an account there about 15 years ago. I never thought about re opening it until you mentioned it. We have a distributor about an hour away. That place is dangerous to my wallet. I walked in one day looking for a 5 dollar item and ended up seeing an industrial truck box with a discounted tag because it had a couple scratches and 500 dollars later it was mine...my wife wasn't impressed as much as I was lol.
@@BrandonLund it happens to all of us that place is like a walmart is to women lol
I'm a 'returning' welder after retiring from the USAF... Love your hack vids, especially this one; GREAT Idea Brandon!
Thanks man i appreciate your support!
Perfect low budget clamps . I'll be making some tomorrow. Thanks Brandon!!!
Thanks Jeff! 👍
I love to see things like this that you can build for yourself , like the clamps . And I love the clamp table and the portable bandsaw table that you have built. I have a portable bandsaw so I need to build me one of those tables for it . Thanks for the video, you do great work so I will be looking for more videos . Be careful and stay safe and keep on welding .
As always, Jeffrey !!!
Thanks Jeffrey I appreciate it! Projects like this are fun to build! :)
@@BrandonLund Shhh...don't let my wife hear you 😅
Great show Brandon, I bought the Northern Tool fixture welding table and its Awesome. I used pelican pins for my shoulder bolts I got them at Tractor Supply. I have a Harbor Freight band saw and Im making the stand this weekend . I love your show with all tips and trick Good Job Well Done. Thanks
Thanks Dave I appreciate your support!
Just saw this again. Ime a professional vwelder. Content is great
Thanks man i appreciate it! 👍🙏
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@@donaldcochrane3283 awesome Donald! I appreciate it man! 👍🙏😁
Brandon that table and all those clamps are amazing! Great job!♡
Thanks Loren I appreciate it! 😁👍
I love this. I need to build myself a welding table and clamps like that! Good job
@Mountainman Buildz Thanks man I appreciate it!
I recently invested a couple of thousand dollars in a MIG welder and plasma cutter and I have been looking for projects to do to practice my welding , making these clamps and that pipe jig will
work perfectly . I bought a cheap Northern Tool table but now Im thinking to cover it with half inch plate like yours. Keep the videos going , I just built my dream shop and it's not even half full yet !
Thanks man! Yah it's a great feeling getting things just the way you want them and building things yourself with your hands just adds to that appreciation
I had resigned myself to doing without your Fabrication Table because I can't afford to spend $300 plus for a magnetic drill and some annular cutters. When you mentioned renting the drill, it gave me hope! I don't even know if they rent them in Boise but I bet they do. I can afford at least one 5/8 cutter so if I can find a 3/8 plate, I'm in business. Thanks for another great video.
They rent the cutters also.
I checked this morning and several rental places in Boise have the Mag Drills.
Thanks Brandon.
Thats awesome! I guess what we know what you have planned real soon LOL
Thanks for sharing with us Brandon, got to make a run on Harbor Freight again 🤗. That’s a great set up. Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋
Thanks Fred, any time! I've noticed the 50% off coupons are getting harder to find but 3 bucks for a clamp doesn't break the bank so I didn't get too crazy trying to find a coupon.
im just going to start welding, just about to buy a small fixture table, have a cheap harbor freight welder so far. i also have a few of those harbor freight clamps. love the spray cooking oil so makes cleaning up bb's, easier!!! thanks for the video
Right on man! You don't need top of the line brand new stuff to have fun and make the task at hand much more enjoyable. Getting out there and doing it is half the battle. 👍
Awesome little project and yeah those painter's tools are SO useful for everything!
They sure are! Thanks man!
Very informative simple grate job glade you took the time to make this video been doing this since 77 got eight year old son runs the mig and stick very well hee operates most all the heavy equipment here on the farm make him watch different video like yours mine not the only ideas
That is awesome! Thank you very much!
Just bought 4 of those clamps from HF on sale. Thanks for the vid😊
Good deal!
Thanks again! Always looking for a way to save a buck on a fixed income chasing the craft. :)
Brandon, these clamps are awesome. I knew I saw this video last year, but a refresher is always good! I tried to source those shoulder bolts locally back then without much success on Amazon. I went looking again today. Best price I could find was $5.84 each! Worst price was $19.13 each!!!!! Our Princess Auto (very similar to Harbor Freight) Has a 24' x 36" fab table with the holes already drilled. It is only about 1/4" thick for $319.00. I think it will work for light fabrication stuff.
This was valuable! Even if I had only learned about vegetable spray!
Thanks! ✌️ 😎
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you! ❤️
Nice idea thanks for sharing💚🇬🇧🌱
You’re welcome 😊
Genius, thx for passing on the knowledge and wisdom
My pleasure!
Looks good. Longer bolts will allow them to be more versatile.
If I go any longer they will stick through the fixture plate and hit the table below.
@@BrandonLund gotcha, I’ll have a look at your table build video.
So glad I found your channel a few months ago. I got my first mig. I got a Klutch 140. Built a cart for it with scraps I had. Ended up using the arc welder to assemble it. I picked up a new grinder and cut off saw at a pawnshop. I build tools/jigs a lot too. Love your videos.
Thanks man and what a great feeling building your collection and making it the way you want! I appreciate your support!
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I tried the veg oil and wow it works awesome .
And the added bonus, it's non toxic 👌
Nice tips and tricks on modifying them cheap clamps I to fixture clamps @Brandon Lund
@Antonio Claudio Michael thanks man! they are super fun to build too :)
To keep the slope and finger gap, offsetting the cut using a straight edge (or the speed square) pivoted around the fixed jaw's point of contact might have allowed you to maintain more of the adjustability range and bottom out at when the clamp is set at it's tightest rather than before. At 9:35, it kinda looks like the slope that was cut resulted in the jaw bottoming out prematurely and thus reducing maximum opening.
I fiddled with it and ground a little off the end where it pivots. They probably should have done that from the factory.
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Lay off the Peyote bud 🤣🤣🤣
I always love how you explain and do this stuff
I appreciate that Roger
thick and strong steel, for mountings. Alot like Polish and Russian builders, WELL BUILT, to L A S T....Mr. Lund, very good. You may add 45 and 30 and 15 degree holes, with those 4 inch 5/8 ones, too.....perhaps, with a line indicating on your fabulous metal table/template......
@peter sack great idea and thank you!
Great Idea! I enjoy making tools an fixtures for welding and I dabble in blacksmithing. So it all fits together nicely.
Thanks Jerry! Blacksmithing is something I haven't tried but It's always interested me. I have a couple people looking for an anvil for me but I'm finding they are hard to find and they get top dollar around here.
@@BrandonLund There’s another project for you Brandon! Weld up your very own anvil!
Turn the flow vale off when you are done and purge the line, no more ball flying up in the gauge. Same goes for ocy/acetelyne or any other gases, relieve the pressure on your gauges, a t handle to the chest will be no joke. Cool ideal on your tooling and table.
Thanks man!
Another Kwel video!!! Love your ideas !! Creative!! Probably start looking for 1/2 inch plate !!
Awesome! Thank you!
This is def my fav of the table clamps
@Bronson mine too 😉
Good stuff man!
@ThisIsSparta Glad you liked it! Thanks!
Grear video! Im wish I saw it before I bought my
Thanks man! 👍
Thanks for sharing
Thank you! 👍
It's nice to weld a washer or ring on the adjustment knob on the clamps. It makes adjusting them with gloves on much easier.
Great tip!
i used one of those clamps drilled a small hole in it and used it for my grounding clamp so i can clamp my work and ground all with one thing it works even when you are welding in the field or on the car or any where i bought the HF 125 flux core welder and it had a cheap clamp like a jumper cable clamp that made my welds spotty and kept having to re adjust the ground clamp
Great tip!
Thanks great video 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
May God command us to mastery, and you are mastering your work. Blessed be your brother from Algeria
Thank you very much and God bless 🙌
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Good Job! Really enjoyed this video... you present a lot of helpful tricks and advise for DYI welders.
Thanks Reed Welcome aboard!
great video this is a good project especialy if you don't have room for big table
@michael osborne Very true!
Nice project, and the wife laughed when I showed her how you steal the vegetable oil from the pantry.
Hahaha so when her vegetable oil disappears you know who she's gonna hunt down right...lol
enjoyed your video but instead of using shoulder bolts i used 1/2" threaded rod threaded 1 nut on top so i can adjust the height of clamp to table and if needed another nut underneath to make sure no movement.
Nice tip! 👍
Thank you for the welding tutorial it was very good
You are very welcome!
Great ideas!!!
Thank you!! 😊
"Making sense now guys?"
Ha! Yes the exact moment I went from.. 'What are you doing, no nnonono.' to .. 'OHHhhhh.'
Very nice, thanks for the ideas!
Thanks man! 👍
I like your grinder your portable band saw table your template tabled all great stuff really like the video thank you
Thanks for watching!
You are a genius! Thanks for this video.
Thanks man I appreciiate you watching and commenting! @varosolo78
Congratulations!
Thanks so much for your smart ideas!
Thank you! 😊
Great looking table for small jobs and or a small area. Back in the day I used to just cut my clamps and tack them to the table. Your setup has a definite advantage. Hang in there Bud.
Thanks man! I've done that a bunch too before I built the fab table. In an upcoming episode I will probably touch on that.
@@BrandonLund Hang in there Brandon, You still possess the old school mindset of craftsmanship, quality, and innovation. Necessity is the mother of invention.
I like your bandsaw table
Great idea im gluten intolerant those cookie trays are going to disappear
Thanks man it's a huge time saver!
Thanks Brandon, I'll make some tomorrow.
@Kenneth Russell AWESOME! Have fun buddy!
Kitchen also has a nice Oven for drying your Stick Electrodes !! 😂
Hahahahahahaha Shhhhhhhhh She's going to catch on to me! LOL 😏😎👍🙏 @Hypersphere Engineering
That’s a really awesome idea man thanks for sharing
You bet! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I use Vaseline for nozzle dip, found out it keeps it cleaner then the blue dye and it's alote cheaper. Can't use it at work bc it's not (AWS) approved. So I use at home. Good tips Brandon 👍
@Brandon Berg Huh.....I learned something today! I'm going to give it a try! Thanks for tip! Oh, nice name by the way 😎🤣🤣👍
Great ideas!
Thank you! 😊
Let’s go Brandon!!!
Hahahaha you know it Robbie!
I have a Kreg wood working bench that uses dog holes and these clamps will work well too!
Thats awesome man! These clamps are pretty cool!
Brandon great idea cheap and just the job fanbloodytastic 👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
Thanks Paul!
Cool video! I love to see things like this. I would like to get into some welding work but don’t have the time to do so, I really really enjoy your content though! Keep it up!
Thanks Brooke I appreciate the support!
If you really want to get into welding, you Will find the time to learn!
Never open the bottle all the way, you just need to crack it open barely !!! In saying that, great project! Been doing this exact thing for friggin years, save a shit load of cash!
Non flammable gas bottles have back sealing valves. For the valve to be seated it has to be opened fully Flammable gasses are the opposite. You open them a minimal amount so in the event there is a problem, the valve can be closed quickly.
@@BrandonLund I know, but I still do this with argon o2 mix anyway, there's 2000 plus psi in the bottle, you really don't need to open it all the way, ever, not for mig or tig! I've never run into gas starvation on non-flammable mixes! In a possible emergency, you're left closing the bottle for 10 plus seconds...
I don't think it's a matter of gas starvation, I think has to do with sealing the stem of the valve from gas leaking by. It's how I was taught so thats how I do it.
@@BrandonLund That's the thing isn't it, you're not doing the wrong thing as that's what you were taught, same goes here with me, was taught that it's not necessary to open the valve all the way. I think this is a case of different strokes for different folks!
The best man thanks and best part video is oil lol
Thank you!
Excellent, thank you!
Thanks!
Explanation of your procedures is very well done, keep it up, it make it more interesting, that FRONIUS welder is NICE. You have a lot of Great Ideas 😃😃THANKS
Thank you very much William!
Bad Azz! Cool ideas. I’m retiring soon and want to start my own shop! Thank for sharing 👍
Right on @Fernando Marcano and congratulations on your upcoming retirement!
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Thanks man! 👍
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@@BrandonLund ok man!
I absolutely like how you modified the reach over c-clamp. My question is how would you make one for a plain flat table? Magnet perhaps? Thats the only thing I can come up with right off hand. Thanks!!!
Or possibly drill and tap a hole?
thanks love learning how to create stuff
Happy to help!
I want a table like that.
It's fairly straight forward to build. Be sure to check out the the video
Love what you do keep up the great work
@Steven Gensley thanks man! 👍
Just awesome love your work and ideas.
Thank you so much!
Nice fixture table bro @Brandon Lund
@Antonio Claudio Michael thanks man!
Great work and proyect my friend!!!! Best regards from the Argentinian Patagonian!!! Se you soon!!
Thanks man! 👍
Sweat equity! For kitchen products, don't forget oven cleaner, which is great for cleaning up really critical work and inspecting welds
Great point!
Maybe wire cup on the table but I like your 6-in 1 tool idea
Thanks man! 👍
Subscribed ! This is awesome
Thanks for the sub and welcome aboard! @Dirty DiY
Great video. Well done. Thanks Brandon!
Glad you liked it!
Good video Brandon. You can keep the threads on some of those shoulder bolts for other fixtures that you want to tighten down to your workbench. You could also have stated the approximate cost for the name brand welding table clamps to give your viewers some idea of the $$ savings.
You mentioned in a response to another poster that you are looking for an Anvil but can’t find an affordable one, so how about you make one as a video project? Maybe make a small bench anvil of 25 kilos and a 50 or 100 kilogram bruiser?
Mark from Melbourne Australia
All great tips and I love the idea about building an anvil! Thank you!
God job
Thanks!
Thanks for the idea i will build one for me its a bright idea.
Thanks Rey!
Use a fine grain flap disc for bb splatter
That works well also!
Fancy mig welder that
Thanks man yah it makes setup pretty quick @dazgreen
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Thank you very much! I appreciate your sub! @_VLNT_ 🙏
Wow kudos on the vid and info
Thanks man I appreciate it!
Awesome
Thanks!
awesome
Thanks man!
Nice Brandon
Thanks Dave! 👍
Excellent video. Great ideas I can use.
Awesome! Thank you!
those shoulder bolts are expensive, I used and annular drill 5/8 and the holes are a little over size for 5/8 so I machine the perfect size and work fantastic.
They can be especially when your buying a few. That's a great tip!
great vid mr brandon . thanks for sharing
Thanks man! I appreciate your support!
They do call that a sliding suck fit.
Lol makes sense 👍🤣
Great video, I'll be making a couple of those, thanks for the tip.
On a side note. Here is a tip for you. When recording, look into the camera not your image on the phone. The eyes will point in the right place
Thanks John!
Good video bud.
Thank you Jason!
Perfect for my afternoon coffee 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Great job as usual.
Thanks Basil! I have a lot of fun making these types of videcoffee. Little off topic, Do you drink ice coffee? I'm a borderline coffee addict.
@@BrandonLund Definitely a coffee addict. Just black coffee. Steaming hot or 3 hour old cold coffee. Still drink it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙄
Hahahaha me too. Black. I used to drink hot coffee but now I only drink black ice coffee. Lately my wife has been buying 48 ounce bottles of SToK cold brew ice coffee at the grocery store. It's brewed "low and slow" for 10 hours and it's super tasty! 👌 as much as I drink I might have to reach out to them for a sponsorship lol
@@BrandonLund Do like ice coffee.
Just don't get the chance at work.
Let’s go Brandon
@Sergia Rivera last month I was featured on the cover of a national magazine and this month they are chanting my name on the internet. Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Would like to see your trailer build
I have 2 trailer build playlists. This is the latest
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nice idea. thanks
Welcome 😊