Bed frame angle, what's it made of?

[cannuck]

I've got welders,a torch and a bunch of different drills.
But I ain't got a punch for making holes! Hahaha

So now you have a good reason/excuse to buy and ironworker

 

[gearhead1]

If iron workers were cheaper, I’d have one, and I’d use the heck out that hard bedframe!

 

[ching0n]

If iron workers were cheaper, I’d have one, and I’d use the heck out that hard bedframe!

may I interest you in the cheaper oriental offerings? They'll work just as hard, until you break them.

 

[MichaelP]

And how soon will it happen?

 

[strength_and_power]

I believe the official name for bed frame steel is Chinesium.

We get a good bit of Chinese angle iron in our containers and it is the same ****. At the end of the day, I’m money ahead buying angle from a steel yard than hassling with it.

 

[cannuck]

may I interest you in the cheaper oriental offerings? They'll work just as hard, until you break them.

I got by for decades using C frames in my 20T press and a Roper-Whitney hand punch for smaller sizes. That just made me realize how badly I wanted an iron worker so last year I bought a 75 Metric ton (German made - Mubea) with literally no place to put it. So, it sat in yard at our farm until I made a deal to share space, power and tools at a shop in town (curiously in the building one of my Marvel 8s and my milling machine came from when owner retired).