I shared a few pictures of this in another thread, but figured I'd post them here. Despite not being around here a lot lately and real life keeping me tied up, my passion and interest in "making " hasn't changed.
I've had an idea for a steel table in my office for years. There is this old 10,000 gallon fuel tank we have had laying around since the days i had a commercial MX track (this was the on site water tank then). Anyways, I always thought it'd be cool to take the ends of the tank and make tables out of them. Last few years has saw a lot of time and effort into improving my old office building (a former gas station) whipped into shape. It's been both exhausting mentally physically and also a money pit financially but hey it is getting there...
In any case, here is what we started with;
It's 8ft in diameter. .250 thick steel plate. I originally wanted to make a round conference table, but as it turned out it seemed like I didn't really have enough room for that, and there was more demand for something more like a smaller work station for agents to work with customer directly at. So, I decided the next best way to use this, would be to cut it in half, put the flat edge up against the wall in the office, and then about 5 people could sit around it and face a monitor on the wall. End result was pretty close and worked pretty good even actually...
so, it began by cutting it up. I did this with a torch and used a piece of 2 inch wide 1/4in thick flat bar as a guide.
Then we had *a lot* of grinding to do to clean up the edges and make the bottom flange level all the way around. After that I welded on the same piece of flat bar to the open edge to complete the flange all the way around.
several months earlier we had one of the old fuel island canopies torn down at the office to make the parking lot easier to work around. I saved some 8 inch square tubing for a rainy day half way thinking of this project.
It sort of got repurposed for this project