Welding Square Tube Bed Frame

The average frame has 40 welds all one inch long.

Welding square tube bed frame.

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. A recycling center here in pittsburgh discards steel bed frames. It s spring steel of course and as such needs to be welded like a tool steel. I ve built dozens of frames racks and stands for one customer.

I ve seen guys on youtube tacking up the entire frame using jigs and whatnot then welding the entire joint after all is tacked. 1 square tubing 083 wall. The legs consist of a vertical 48 tall welded about four inches from one end of a 36 long horizontal foot. What exactly is the problem with welding it.

It is also checked with a large framing square. As i weld each member a diagonal measurement is made. Perlmonkey wrote just starting out with mig and i have a question about welding up a rectangular frame out of 2 square tubing. I recently came into possesion of a bed frame was debating hauling it to the dump but.

Http youtu be 7ihgydkkhd0 in this video i am going to be demonstrating stic. After lightly tacking pipe clamps will pull the frame into square the welding is finished. Click on the link below to view my latest video on stick welding square tubing. The tubing is 1 1 4 14 guage square tubing.

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.