Making first miller table Options

[burrell]

I'm starting to put together material for a aluminum miller table. What i would like to do is glue the Alu together. I've talked with some of my airplane friends and they came up with methacrylate 7350 a Parsons product which is suppose to be self etching. Small amounts of this stuff is hard to come by because of short shelf life. I plan to use Jasco prep&prime(need input)on the glued surfaces regaurdless of what ever adhesive i use. 5200 may work and i've used a lot of it in a marine environment and also glued some of Jens favorite shoe soles(doesn't take much) back together with it.I'm just concerned with the Alu oxidizing and coming a part at the glue seam (not nice). I really don't want to put fasteners in the bed of the table if possible. Any in put good or bad i will appreciate. The metal is on the way and should be here next week. Ordered by phone from discountsteel.com (Fort Worth Tx) for a better price than on line. It beats spending a day driving to Tallahassee and not ending up with what i need. In put on bed surface also, bondo autmotive primer chaulk board paint ect. Later i'll need some help with the math on the spray bar but that can wait. I'm going to keep for anyone relatively neat notes and drawings on this if it turns out well.
Burrell

[burrell]

Played with the table some today. Things seem to be working out some what. Spray bar will need a lot of attention. Holes may be to small but kinda figured on that i can make them bigger. Had the by pass valve closed and quirted water all over me and our dog. She broke camp and wouldn't have anything to do with me for a while. Cman your in for a treat as you get into this project. I'm just as much in the blind as you are. I've never seen one of these other than pictures. Spray bar is to high as is. I'll put bigger holes in it but think i will still have a dripping problem. Wraped a rag around it and got water down onto the table. Adjusted the valves some and looked good. put a couple of hand full of dirt on it and it cleaned off nicely. The excess caulking at the rails needs to be cleaned better. It was causing a ripple at every piece to angle out away from the rail. May have to live with that some how. All in all happy with how its going. Didn't take pictures today but will try to get some more up soon.

[Caveman]

Played with the table some today. Things seem to be working out some what. Spray bar will need a lot of attention. Holes may be to small but kinda figured on that i can make them bigger. Had the by pass valve closed and quirted water all over me and our dog. She broke camp and wouldn't have anything to do with me for a while. Cman your in for a treat as you get into this project. I'm just as much in the blind as you are. I've never seen one of these other than pictures. Spray bar is to high as is. I'll put bigger holes in it but think i will still have a dripping problem. Wraped a rag around it and got water down onto the table. Adjusted the valves some and looked good. put a couple of hand full of dirt on it and it cleaned off nicely. The excess caulking at the rails needs to be cleaned better. It was causing a ripple at every piece to angle out away from the rail. May have to live with that some how. All in all happy with how its going. Didn't take pictures today but will try to get some more up soon.

I will probably start on mine this summer, after I get some of my chores done at the cabin. One of which is chinking it. I'll post when I start it.