Here are some more images of the surface, I've tried to edit the photos so that you can see the marks a little better. After measuring the table, all the centres are high, going to have to shim the ends up by 0.005 min, and measuring the ups and down (the marks you can see) measure about 0.02mm. You...

All welded up ready for painting. 3643EB53-4C87-4AC1-9783-46D4B895D6F8.jpeg Having pride even in the smallest of jobs :-) 2758F3EB-2C1E-47F1-BC02-24134668C9D9.jpeg BA736012-F61D-4CCB-B999-4FCFB846AFAB.jpeg They work really well, very happy how they have turned out! Yes need to paint my floor haha 78...

Love the efficiency of the 3/8 shim nuts holding up the wheel. :D I have to admit I has to work out what 3/8 was in metric as it had no meaning to me lol those nuts are 15mm (m20x2.5) thick so gives some sense of scale, they are a bit overkill lol at 600kg per wheel load capacity. Will drop a pictu...

I had to purchased castors separately, didn’t have any plates so knocked a quick drawing up for my laser cutters.. 1B0561B6-EDAB-4D77-B114-9538193913AA.jpeg Will weld a nut in the middle and then some m20 thread bar locked into that which will go up into the legs... the plan is to level the table I ...

Every serious table will have a +- .0000? . If it’s within tolerance but visible than it’s just something you have to deal with. At best you might be able to prove that some of the low spots are over tolerance, guess then they might owe you a plate or two. And to measure to that precision, you need...

Stronghand got back to me and said “it seems to be genuine”

Confidence inspiring...

Thank you for taking the time to share, clearly the table I’ve purchased is poor quality finish which is a shame. Feel like the surface is going to be hard to maintain, oh well it is what it is. Might ask a machine shop what it would cost to sort it... Stronghand / buildpro in the states hasn’t com...

Compared to our buildpro table here at the shop that does seem rough. Our finish is coarse, but no chatter or skipping. It's definitely not very flat compared to decent surface grinding as shown by the shiny high spots after stoning.. but our table definitely seemed adequately flat for a welding fi...

I also had a few QA issues with my buildpro, but mostly with the tooling. There was some shipping damage to the table, but that was another matter. I also noticed a piece of chinese newspaper in one of the tooling packs that likely made it's way in there mistakenly. I did check it to see if a chine...

I’ve emailed stronghand/buildpro with serial number to check its a genuine item. This is probably your best first move, is the table flat and did it go together as is should? It came fully built, I stripped it down as many plates where too high or looked low in relation to each other.. found loads ...

I wonder if the panels that are darker in colour have had more heat put through them.

I’ve emailed stronghand/buildpro with serial number to check its a genuine item.

Purchased a Metric version of the BuildPro Max 2550x1250 here in the uk. While setting up I noticed the surface finish looks more like a belt sander that has chatted across the surface than a precision ground surface... As I don’t live in the States so I have nothing to compare this too, other than ...

Slightly off topic but same time hopefully not too far off lol The Loctite Rust Disolver (Navel Jelly) that he uses in the videos to bring out the weld cross profiles, does anyone know if anything else will work as this stuff is not sold in the uk, it was removed because its ingredients, so struggli...

Interesting video, I always weld uphill on structual stuff but got me thinking that i mainly do rollcages and I always weld downhill on tube like in the video, welds look nice but maybe i should cut a few in half and look fusion/penetration.. Saying that the amount of rollcage tubes I see and cut ou...

Thanks guys, I bit the bullet and went ahead and ordered it so lets hope its the same :) Got a good deal in the end, got all the extra with it so fairly happy. https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7692/17067716247_f716a6c7b4_o.jpg (sorry no idea why the image has rotated, it wasn't like this on flickr lol)

Can do but last time i called 3m they where less then helpful in the uk.

From images I can see the old part number was 83 20 00 can anyone tell me if the newer unit is identical?

Im about to buy a Speedglas 9100xx FX adflo system, but there is a chap here in uk selling them about 1/4 price less then mainstream traders, my question is they have just release the "new" adflo system which has lithium batterys but my question is have they made any changes to the fan par...

BOC are rubbing there hands together as I just order a bottle of light to try out, will have a play and report back with what i can find.

As i do allot or bodywork stuff be interestion to see how it helps.

I think its always good to ask "but why" because I don't always except one persons answer, even if I know a subject well I will still ask peoples opinions because stuff isn't always set in stone, This is why I asked this (what could be taken as a simple question) and hoping for some better...

Yeah totally agree, I just thought I have 3phase in the unit so sod it may as well get the 4 roller set up, even though its more expensive for the rollers. I just don't get the adaptive bit of the machine, seems to be way too hot for everything I do, but I may be doing something wrong, I can from a ...

Yeah well I was going to go for the bigger unit also, but I thought back to how often I actually used more then 250amps, and realised never! The only annoying thing with the Kemppi Kempact RA is that if you get the 251A (Single phase machine) then it only has single rollers, where the 253A (3 phase ...

Thanks for all the info, I've ordered a bottle of BOC Light to see if it helps me on the thiner body work welding.

I noticed when searching that people talk about 25/75 mix, but I've never found any so thats why I'm asking what is best for me in what is available from BOC.

Thanks for the link I will take a read when I finish work.

Never really gave it much thought before what type of gas I use and how much difference it makes, I'm sure its been covered many times before so hopefully won't upset anyone asking. I mainly weld bodywork stuff between 0.8-1.2mm (0.032"-0.047") thickness, with 0.6mm (0.23") wire, and ...