I've just been tasked with setting up a new welding area at work. There are four 5x8 platen tables used in line for a 40ish foot workpiece. I would like to align and level the four tables such they can be used as one fixture/alignment surface. Anyone have any tips and tricks for getting lined up? Right now my plan is strings/wire, all the levels i can find, and a floor jack.
Seems like an obviously tedious task, but if anyone has a smarter not harder method i would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Brian V.
What did you come up with to level everything together?
ended up pulling mig wire around the perimeter with some drift pins and a little turnbuckle i found. cinched it up like a guitar string and set the four outer most corners as the highest. leveled the outer most tables and worked my way in.
Unfortunately, the alignment was short lived as dudes on sky jacks kept bumping them when they have to run wires in the overhead.
I imagine I'll have to move them again when they install the bridge crane. Till then i just get em close when i get a new set of tubes and use levels and squares to git er done. "Can't bump the center of the world."