Welding Square Tube Bed Frame
1 square tubing 083 wall.
Welding square tube bed frame. Perlmonkey wrote just starting out with mig and i have a question about welding up a rectangular frame out of 2 square tubing. The legs consist of a vertical 48 tall welded about four inches from one end of a 36 long horizontal foot. Bed frames are an inexpensive source of steel. I ve built dozens of frames racks and stands for one customer.
Thinking that these frames would be a good construction source i bought the frames for 1 2 apiece and tried making a project the results are the potting stand and table. What exactly is the problem with welding it. It comes in square thinwall tubes of 1 5 and 1 and 3 4 angles and sheets up to 3x3 with a few spot welds here and there. I recently came into possesion of a bed frame was debating hauling it to the dump but.
A recycling center here in pittsburgh discards steel bed frames. It is also checked with a large framing square. After lightly tacking pipe clamps will pull the frame into square the welding is finished. It s spring steel of course and as such needs to be welded like a tool steel.
The tubing is 1 1 4 14 guage square tubing. I ve seen guys on youtube tacking up the entire frame using jigs and whatnot then welding the entire joint after all is tacked. The basic frame can be configured about a thousand ways with different dies to bend just about anything up to about 4. As i weld each member a diagonal measurement is made.
Click on the link below to view my latest video on stick welding square tubing.