This is the start of another, bigger project for me. I have the opportunity to fabricate the steel components for the substructure of a continuous 52′ long, and approximately 12′ tall display wall for a commercial project in Minneapolis. The first portion of the project is the fabrication of 17 steel posts, with hight and depth adjusters, to receive the high gloss finished display shelves. Here are some pictures of starting the process!
Here is the stack of material to start the new project.
Cutting all the flat stock and square tubing for a start.
A lot of grinding of edges and corners on my belt grinder.
Drilling all the holes for tapping on my little mill drill. These plates will work as depth adjusters in the end.
Counter sinking all the holes before tapping.
I orderes a single point tapping bit because I wanted to try tapping on my mill drill for the first time. Tapping 140 holes by hand seemed way to much like a chore!
I slowed down the speed to the lowest setting and fed the tapping bit in nice and easy.
Then reversed, and let the bit work itself out of the material. It worked like a charm! This is the way I will cut thread in the future!
Drilling the holes for the flange nuts into the base plates.
Creating a little flange to receive the nuts.
Grinding the flange nuts to fit the recessed area in the base plates.
Grinding off the Zink finish for welding.
Here is a flange nut in place ready for welding.
The other side.
All nuts TIG welded in place.
I made a little jig ro hold the bolt in place for the hight adjusters, or leveler legs.
After cutting all the plates, I MIG welded them to the bolt heads.
Here are all the components done and ready to be used for the next steps. But I have to prepare all the posts first!
