Welding Square Tube Bed Frame

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Welding square tube bed frame.

Rule 1 of welding thin wall steel tube its gonna warp. 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. I ve seen guys on youtube tacking up the entire frame using jigs and whatnot then welding the entire joint after all is tacked. Http youtu be 7ihgydkkhd0 in this video i am going to be demonstrating stic.

It is also checked with a large framing square. It s spring steel of course and as such needs to be welded like a tool steel. Perlmonkey wrote just starting out with mig and i have a question about welding up a rectangular frame out of 2 square tubing. Bed frames are an inexpensive source of steel.

What exactly is the problem with welding it. Click on the link below to view my latest video on stick welding square tubing. The legs consist of a vertical 48 tall welded about four inches from one end of a 36 long horizontal foot. I ve built dozens of frames racks and stands for one customer.

The basic frame can be configured about a thousand ways with different dies to bend just about anything up to about 4. The average frame has 40 welds all one inch long. As i weld each member a diagonal measurement is made. The tubing is 1 1 4 14 guage square tubing.

I recently came into possesion of a bed frame was debating hauling it to the dump but.