how about all the things you have made out of bed frames?

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Show us what you have repurposed bed frames into. I was given twenty beds from a local hotel. They were mostly wood but on the bottom they have small frames out of square tubing with 2mm thick wall.  I built a small rolling table to hold my grinders. The frame also had some welded wire bottoms 2 inch square 1/4 inch rod.  I made the shelves from that.
Reply:I forgot the pictures.First picture as I took them off the bed wood frame.Second.  The table I made.  I welded some old casters on and used the wire mesh for shelves.  It is not finished in the picture.  As I was building it I needed some help to position the frames for welding them together so I made this jig for clamping.  I can rotate it and lock it with a set screw.  I just clamped the frames in and welded on one side and then rotated them for the other side.  I could do all the welding standing up which is a big plus for my old back. Attached Images
Reply:The jig turn the other was in the vise.  You can just see the hex head bolt to fix the shaft from turning.  Took twenty minutes and saved a lot of time.  Not clean I know but it was cold and I needed to get done.Of course I showed the jig and the table to the wife.  She thought the jig was great but then said she thought I should have put the wheels on the bottom instead of the top.  What purpose did they serve on the top.   Blonde wife of course! Attached Images
Reply:Ahaaaa, when I saw the thread Subject "how about all the things you have made out of bed frames?" I assumed it was the universal 1.5x1.5 steel angle-iron and was intrigued,  since I have a few of the angle iron style, i was looking for ideas, it seems a sin to just trash them.2 surprises in one, square tubing and grills and your jig was a bonus surprise since I Subscribe to  "Home made tools! " glad I looked.MIG, Stick, Oxy/Fuel, mostly one-off fabrication and repairsMC Road Racer'kit' Cobra2 Vista Cruisers'29 Ford AA Dualie dump   "Live-Free-Or Die"
Reply:Please don't judge me on the torch work. I didn't cut the plate for the jig!
Reply:right there is how to make corn  flakes from crap.. nice job ..i made this bush holder from an angle-style set of bedframes.. Attached Images
Reply:most of the lids are bed frames.....that stuff can be a pain to work with. you cant cut them with a sawzall....its grinder,chopsaw, or torch. they will clean the teeth of a sawzall blade in 5 seconds flat!
Reply:Respectfully, what is it?Good to hear, beforehand, '... NOT sawzall....its grinder,chopsaw, or torch.'MIG, Stick, Oxy/Fuel, mostly one-off fabrication and repairsMC Road Racer'kit' Cobra2 Vista Cruisers'29 Ford AA Dualie dump   "Live-Free-Or Die"
Reply:OMG.  I thought I was the only one who made things from bed frames. When I tell people about the stuff I made from it I get crazy looks. Anyways I just came in from the garage I was making a brackets for suitcase weights for a riding mower out of bed frames. I've also made Motorcycle dolly's, battery boxes, Small garden tractor trailers and a lot more. Anything that people use angle iron for I use bed frame, it's always free people just throw them away. The easiest way I found to cut it is a grinder and a cut off wheel or the torch.
Reply:its a very large bbq grill...my grill has a title....turn signals...and is legal for the road!
Reply:Thats cool I thought I had the biggest grill around, but you have me beat with a mobile grill.
Reply:ive  used  them for making frames to extend small    combine hoppers, and frames  for  plywood  fertilizer hoppers on  side dressers.
Reply:A couple of more projects that are mainly bed frames:http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=30126and........... Attached Images
Reply:This is a hangar I made for a long windchime / gong. Chime hangs in the middle.  No clapper on it, so it needs to be hit manually, but that was how it was designed, so that it could be hit with different things to give it a different sound.
Reply:^^ I like the touch of injector at the topSomeone needs to make an auto-darkening Predator welding helmet...complete with dreads and multiple spectra of IR vision.
Reply:Good eye.  It needed something on top, so the scrap pile had the injector and hub bolt, put them together and had a nice topper for the hangar roof.
Reply:throttle cable bracket for a mercedes diesel I dropped into my beat-up chevy truck.http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...d.php?t=241922
Reply:Looks good......see you have the same "keyhole" feature on yours.Any emission testing issues with substituting that diesel?
Reply:I'd like to see more of the Mercedes diesel conversion. Maybe a new thread?Miller Thunderbolt AC/DC (Sold)Miller Dialarc 250HFMiller MM251Miller MM200 (Sold)Miller MM130Miller Spot WelderVictor O/A rigMiller Spoolmatic 1 (Sold)
Reply:Would love to see a thread on the diesel conversion also.Miller millermatic 251Miller aircrafter 330st, wp201961 Lincoln SA200Ellis 1600 bandsawLogan 820 latheSouth Bend 13"Bridgeport M Head
Reply:Here's a few things I've done with bed frames:http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=26494&page=2 (starting with post #42)http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=28376http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=27771And of course another thread on the topic:http://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=24677MM200 w/Spoolmatic 1Syncrowave 180SDBobcat 225G Plus - LP/NGMUTT Suitcase WirefeederWC-1S/Spoolmatic 1HF-251D-1PakMaster 100XL '68 Red Face Code #6633 projectStar Jet 21-110Save Second Base!
Reply:here is my plasma cart i built today now i need to build a new welder a cart
Reply:What type of steel are they made of ? I cut one with a chopsaw & weird sparks were flying ..not like really american steel..beats be~~~~
Reply:I would suspect that they are made from re-rolled railroad tracks.  There's a couple companies that buy up old tracks and shear them down and roll them into angle and flat pieces.  For someone buying large quantities of angle, its the cheapest stuff you can get but its mechanical properties vary.  Some (well probably most) of it is really hard but every once in a while you'll hit a soft section.Miller 250x & Lincoln V205-TSmith Oxy-Prop torch
Reply:no picture but my first project on my old welder was a firewood rack to sit inside the screen room... about 5' wide by 15" deep and 3' tallHere's onehttp://weldingweb.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=25459
Reply:now is my time to post a few photos..First welding project ever is the stand for my firebrick forgeThen came a couple of workbenchesThen a highly modified hand-truck for my gas welding bottlesand recently, a rack for short stockwill put my new welder cart in the next post Attached ImagesMillerMatic 252, HTP 221 w/cooler, Hypertherm PM45, Lincoln IdealArc 250 AC/DC"I'd like to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible"
Reply:Here is the cart I made a couple weeks ago.  Mostly bed frame angle, some 1" square tube, and some re-purposed sheet metal Attached ImagesMillerMatic 252, HTP 221 w/cooler, Hypertherm PM45, Lincoln IdealArc 250 AC/DC"I'd like to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible"
Reply:Frieed, I like that cart, good job.Working on cars and bikes is my hobby, learning to weld the pieces together is my quest.
Reply:reinforced the shock towers on a VW baja bug beamTire rack on my car hauler I built from a Motorhome chasis
Reply:how about an arched arbor Attached Images
Reply:Nice work, all of them - very creative!Birddog, let's see a better shot of that kart you haev in the top pictures.  Cool car hauler, btw ... might need a rack for the kart on it.
Reply:Started as an abandoned yard cart, very little exists of the original frame, I built the rest.  The car` hauler bed was built using mostly used pallet racking pieces.Century Quick Fix  wire welder, Century Infanite Disc Stick welder, Lincoln Pro-Mig 175, Oxy Acetaline torches.
Reply:Birddog1148 just curious but what track is that?safety last
Reply:Still looks like a fun little hot rod .... I think you should restore it, and show it off.  Even better, make a small bed over the top of the engine, or even a small trailer, and use it at the track for a pit vehicle.
Reply:Midway Speedway In crooksville oh.  I divorce the kids mom today, the cart goes with them.  Thinking of getting rid of the late Model.  Moving to sandusky, my  start woodsbuggy racing.Century Quick Fix  wire welder, Century Infanite Disc Stick welder, Lincoln Pro-Mig 175, Oxy Acetaline torches.