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.

Welding square tube bed frame.

The legs consist of a vertical 48 tall welded about four inches from one end of a 36 long horizontal foot. Click on the link below to view my latest video on stick welding square tubing. After lightly tacking pipe clamps will pull the frame into square the welding is finished. The tubing is 1 1 4 14 guage square tubing.

It is also checked with a large framing square. What exactly is the problem with welding it. It s spring steel of course and as such needs to be welded like a tool steel. 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 built dozens of frames racks and stands for one customer. 1 square tubing 083 wall. I ve seen guys on youtube tacking up the entire frame using jigs and whatnot then welding the entire joint after all is tacked. Bed frames are an inexpensive source of steel.

Rule 1 of welding thin wall steel tube its gonna warp. As i weld each member a diagonal measurement is made. The average frame has 40 welds all one inch long. The basic frame can be configured about a thousand ways with different dies to bend just about anything up to about 4.

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