well pretty much nothing will be touching the surface and it will have about 1 inch of water on top of it all of the time.. eventually the oil will come off right and start rusting?? unless im wrong..
recently i was thinkin of weldable primer? the same stuff that some steel companies paint ibeam with and u can weld on it.. or thats not conductive???
candy apple red metal flake is little bit too much bling haha and i dont even think metal flake paint will be conductive??
I wouldn't think any type of paint, at least the kind we could afford, would be able to withstand the extreme temperatures of hot welding slag/boogers raining down upon it.
As for the weldable primer, I would think that primer is for protection only and it would burn off as soon as it reached 2000+ degrees F.
I don't understand why your table has to hold water...could you not drill a few holes in it to drain the water? Is this an outside table?
Oil will eventually rise out of metal, but you could always reapply it to the table.
Our aircraft work stands had a "static grounding point". It was just a few rows of brazing rod overlay on the steel stand that were ground to bare metal after paint. It was to give you an electrically conductive point (that wouldn't rust outdoors) to "ground yourself" on before work commenced.
Maybe something like that would work?
Make steel table, run a grid pattern of brazed beads across it, paint normally, grind over the raised bronze/brass beads so water/parts ares electrically grounded to the steel surface, but the actual steel surface is protected and won't rust?
Seems like it would be reasonably cheap and not take too long to build. I like the stainless idea, but unless you get some old restaurant kitchen equipment - Stainless aint cheap!
I'm just making a wild-ass guess because in all honesty, I can't really visualize this setup from the description.
The paint shop where I used to work had conductive paint on the mix room floor to avoid static-induced fires/explosions. But, I doubt you can afford it! Also, I don't know that it would hold up very well in your application.
You might look for something for use in ESD or paint room applications.
i am planning on making my water table out of galvanized steel. the frame and grate will be plain steel and the water container will be 16ga galv steel.
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