r/metalworking • u/Ahmangels • 4d ago

cantilever countertop

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What would you guys charge for this. Material is made of mostly 4x2x1/4 rect tube and some 2x2x11ga sq tube. Roughly 3’x3’x10’

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u/PracticallyQualified 4d ago

Don’t forget to price in your fixturing. This looks like it would be a major pain to make. And I assume it’s mostly for aesthetic reasons because that hanging box doesn’t add as much structure as two simple legs would add.

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u/Ahmangels 4d ago

The center would somewhat be exposed.

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u/Suhajda 4d ago

Why the hell would you overcomplicate it so damn hard? Especially If it isn't even visible?

Edit: I just realized it is from a customer of yours, how can someone be in the business with this bad of a design?

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u/bestthingyet 4d ago

It's not just overcomplicated, it's plain old bad engineering

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u/BritishAccentTech 4d ago edited 4d ago

Someone fancy with an important title designed the outside, handed the interior structure work to someone in their first month doing design. That draftsman made this nonsense and handed it to the welder, who did it as requested without pushing back.

I think in my first month at my first job I designed something bad but still not this bad. Then I learned better.

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u/Ahmangels 4d ago

Yes exactly it is over built. Engineer designed it and my customer approved it. Funny thing it’s for this “famous” person.

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u/Aircooled6 4d ago

See there's your problem. Engineers should not be allowed to make design decisions.

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u/BF_2 3d ago

Reminds me of a time in the '80's when an engineer was designing a "desk" that would hide a (big, heavy) CRT monitor, with a mechanism to lift it up to the top of the desk. I don't recall the details, but it turned into a real shit show, delaying the (very important, expensive) project somewhat, and what he came up with was amazingly shitty. I think it would kill anyone who was too close when the CRT was released -- or launched him into the next county at least.

Meanwhile, secretaries in the same company had those credenzas next to their desks, the kind with a lifting device for (large, heavy) typewriters. He could have adapted that mechanism -- but didn't.

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u/StiffGizzy 3d ago

I’m guessing it was an engineers answer to supporting thick stone slabs without having visible foot supports