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| So many of us are automobile enthusiasts passionate about automobiles and we think and dream of power & machines all the time. Most of us drive cars everyday but many won’t be able to tell the difference between one engine component to another. We hardly open the hood of the car to see & study the marvel that’s called the engine, to get a detailed glimpse of what lies beneath these wonderful machines that carry us great distances all the time. So why can’t we do something that will showcase this marvelous piece of human engineering called the car engine? Yeah sounds great but how do we convert these wonderful thoughts to actions? Where do you find such an engine and how do we display it? Engines are oily full of grease, how do we display these engineering marvels that people can appreciate?   So came by the thought “Hey why don’t we create a dining table engine with an engine that has a turbo charger, NoS and the works et al? Why can’t people touch & feel the engine that’s clean polished and shiny and the heart, the most important part of the automobile, that people can appreciate? Why do engines have to be dusty, greasy and black?” We will change that- And so was born the concept of the Baloch M1300 Turbo dining table. We needed to finish it such that it is really attractive and when someone sits on this dining table, remove the thought of an oily greasy and dusty engine. While the thought sounded nice there were many questions we needed to answer - So the task one was to find an engine. Where will we find one? While we always drive cars and bikes one never thought of creating a concept table that can be fabricated so as to showcase its engineering beauty. How do we fabricate it? Who will do it for us? Would we be able to deliver a well finished product? How we went about addressing these challenges, step one was to find a used engine. Where else but in the local flea market we went hunting for one, finally after a diligent search we found one that was junked for many years but with most of the components intact!!! The Engine before finishing (Work in progress)   Semi-finished Engine Table   Step two - was to fabricate the legs that will hold the weight of the engine and strong enough made of fabricated solid steel. We actually found a small fabrication shed that had a lathe machine and Anwar who knew to operate it. Hey Anwar will you help us build the table? Could you help us put the steel table legs together? We will do the design for the compression pipes but would you be able to fabricate them? No the engine does not have to start thankfully but needs to be “finished” perfectly. He instantly said yes we can do this. So we had the engine, and the turbo purchased from another flea market and the NoS cylinder from yet another source. And of course the main legs on which this would all stand also had to be just right! The next challenge was to get all these components fitted as though they are part of one engine and finally fit into an “Engine Dining Table” Turbo, NoS, Alternator everything that one could effectively display. Yes we got the assembly right with a bit of struggle and all the parts integrated perfectly well. Hardly a week from our busy schedules and the installed piece was ready. So we got the High speed fuel injection jets, the NoS kit and the fabricated exhausts. The next challenge-Finishing it to perfection! The right chrome finish, the right orange peel finish for the turbo, exhausts etc etc. And so embarked the real journey-dismantle the ugly piece, find the best painter, find the best chroming unit find the best “stickering” guy and above a good glass to complete the fabulous item. Not very sure, we dismantled the unfinished table and sent out the parts for finishing. One by one - what colour but a bright German red for the engine and on top the engine casing had to be red and silver… was a difficult job to get the silver stripes, then the chroming and the desired level of finish as we had envisaged in the beginning. It took a good 2-3 weeks to get these items painted, polished shined and chromed and finally to get them assembled back on the now masterpiece in the making… Lastly the most important part, final item was the 4 pillars on which the table glass would fit such that they look one with the engine provide a full view of the engine and also perfectly be able to hold the glass top. After a lot of deliberations and one or two failed and not so very elegant designs, we ended up with 2 wasteful fabrications to hold the glass. But finally the 3rd attempt to get the right design gave the desired effect such that the four extensions merged completely as though they were an integral part of the engine. The Finished Table BALOCH M1300 TURBO  Photo Gallery of the finished table:     There was the glass etching to be done. So we got the “BALOCH” logo etched beautifully on either side of the top of the table glass to complete the garnishing of the concept table. That completes the story of the concept table “BALOCH”.  Table Concept & Design: Lochan Varagappa Edit: Wrong URL (www.facebook.com/balochgearknob) Fabrication: Anwar Photography: Ravi Ramappa Article written by: Hemant Khandeparkar |
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Originally Posted by FlyingSpur
(Post 3367215)
Doesn't Top Gear have a table made from an engine block? Can be seen when they do the news. I've always wanted Auto-parts furniture. |
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Originally Posted by adg_andy
(Post 3367143)
Any info on the costs? |
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Originally Posted by Octane_Power
(Post 3367188)
The picture doesn't do justice to the actual size of the table, looks quite small here; but since it is a dining table what are its dimensions? And how much does it cost? |
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Originally Posted by YaeJay
(Post 3672210)
Sits on my table as a paper weight. |
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Originally Posted by greenhorn
(Post 3672601)
Recently I've seen engine blocks being used as stands for glass table tops |
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