hot rod Pfaff 1245 stand

[W-Cummins]

Well I hatted my crappy "K" leg stand that came with my machine :o :o So I had to make a new one! The old stand was wobbly and when I tried to attach casters to it, it just bent the bottom.  So anyway here are a few pictures of the new stand and its construction.

Cutting out the leg base



machining the adjustment slots


The legs


The table mounts


Welding


Base hanging from the painting "tree"


William...

[Mojo]

Wow........ You could park your car on that thing. I don't think you will have to worry about table wobble anymore.........:)

Awesome job on the fabrication work. Nice clean welds too. Maybe you should consider doing Fabrication work versus upholstery work.

Great job. Be sure and post pic's when its all done and the machine is mounted on it.

Chris

[BigJohn]

     lets see a power hacksaw, plasma cutter, milling machine, mig welder, and spray equipment, just your average upholstery shops equipment!

     Wow what an excellent job, wish I had that talent and equipment.

                                        Big John

[slodat]

     lets see a power hacksaw, plasma cutter, milling machine, mig welder, and spray equipment, just your average upholstery shops equipment!

     Wow what an excellent job, wish I had that talent and equipment.

                                        Big John

I have all of those tools in my upholstery shop. I do auto upholstery and use the fab tools and wood shop tools (table saw that doubles as router table, etc) in my upholstery work. Most of the time making/modifying/restoring/repairing the part being upholstered.

[fragged8]

Quality piece of work there.

I have the tools in my workshop but no time to use them :-(

i bought a new Tig Welder/plasma cutter last year and have only used it once.

this sewing thing really gets in the way.

Rich

[W-Cummins]

Wow........ You could park your car on that thing. I don't think you will have to worry about table wobble anymore.........:)

Awesome job on the fabrication work. Nice clean welds too. Maybe you should consider doing Fabrication work versus upholstery work.

Great job. Be sure and post pic's when its all done and the machine is mounted on it.

Chris

I admit it is a slight overkill  ;D  other than the casters it would support one end of my 1 ton dulley.   :)
Dose any one pay for fabrication work these days??  I'm not sure one can make a living doing that anymore , and I'm sure that no one would pay what it would cost to have one of these stands made.  I had the materials here and my time is only worth 5 cents per hr or I would not have it either

anyway
here are the rest of the pix!

I got some nice swivel locking casters with wheel brakes rated @ 150lbs each.  With their small size and the off set cut into the legs the stand has a nice low stance.



I used  hammered paint on it, it seems to hold up well.



I also salvaged the foot rest and treadle controls from the old stand and welded/bolted them on








William....

[Mojo]

That came out real nice William. That table will be around 100 years after your gone. :)

My brother owns a business and does custom fabrication work. He had to branch out and start doing other things as well to make a living. He just couldn't bring in enough fab work so he added some other services to the mix.

Chris

[BigJohn]

William:
     What no servo motor?

[Gregg @ Keystone Sewing]

William:
     What no servo motor?

Yeah, what gives?  And I thought you were cheating when you used a standard stock bottom cross brace with standard Canadian foot pedal and lugs.  I thought these tricked out custom legs and braces were supposed to be completely legit. 

Otherwise, not a bad job overall, and I feel compelled to point out what you could have done since I can't do it myself! 

[bobbin]

Baby, I wish you were nearby! 

I have struggled to get a local welder to fashion some pretty simple brackets that would support roll down shades on our deck... they're not that tough, but that's prolly why they seem to fall through the cracks and get "forgotten".  I know how that goes, sometimes the easiest sewing repairs get put off again and again for just that reason.  ;)

And I've wanted some brackets made that will marry the standard K legs on my machines to the left side bench extensions.  I hate the wimpy, telescoping leg I've had to accept.  It's a pain to vacuum around and I have to collapse it to to move my machines.  I move them around a lot, too. 

Beautiful work; I've always wanted to learn how to weld.  "Sewing" with metal seems every bit as creative as sewing with fabric!

[Gregg @ Keystone Sewing]

Baby, I wish you were nearby! 

I have struggled to get a local welder to fashion some pretty simple brackets that would support roll down shades on our deck... they're not that tough, but that's prolly why they seem to fall through the cracks and get "forgotten".  I know how that goes, sometimes the easiest sewing repairs get put off again and again for just that reason.  ;)

And I've wanted some brackets made that will marry the standard K legs on my machines to the left side bench extensions.  I hate the wimpy, telescoping leg I've had to accept.  It's a pain to vacuum around and I have to collapse it to to move my machines.  I move them around a lot, too. 

Beautiful work; I've always wanted to learn how to weld.  "Sewing" with metal seems every bit as creative as sewing with fabric!

Me too; we have three different welding systems at my job, and I can't use any of them.  The guys I work with are self taught, and can do what they need to do, but I REALLY want to learn formally, and to be honest, in a way that seems safe to me.