Old Bed Frame Projects!!!

[nadogail]

I have made it a point to buy no new steel, sometimes i buy secondary steel from a recycling yard.

Bed Frames, Pallet Beams and old steel pipe are the basic materials of my creations.

 

[BFBOB]

For my contribution to this topic, see my post The Junk Trailer in this forum. Some years ago, but the trailer is still going strong.

 

[DGersic]

Rolling base for my bandsaw.

 

[PugetDude]

Rolling base for my bandsaw.

Bet it was fun drilling all those holes...

 

[DGersic]

Bet it was fun drilling all those holes...

Was no big deal. Small drill press, decent inexpensive bit, little bit of oil. Done.

 

[Walkers]

I make a trip to the scrap bin out of them. Absolute junk to work with. They do make nice bad frame rails though.

 

[Paco Pena]

I played around with an old frame and made a couple shop knives. Held an edge better than I thought it would.

Paco

 

[Riverrat]

This is what bed frames are good for.

 

[jjrbus]

Bed frame use to be so easy to come by, no longer! This is for the rear of my Roadtrek RV to mount my Honda EU2200 generator quiet box. I had to buy the larger angle and square tubing. I have a design change and need to redo the mounting area. For drilling I buy the double ended 1/8" cobalt drill bits in a 10 pack from Amazon and drill all pilot holes with them. I use cobalt for almost all drilling. Can't imagine not using cobalt. American made bed frames used to be made from scrapped railroad tracks. No idea what they use now.

 

[mark-NJ]

All this talk about how difficult it is to drill bedframes, the answer is pretty simple: Don't use 118 drillbits. Use 135. They cut like butter.

 

[fireball 440]

I’ve tried to cut a section of RR track and failed miserably, but the bedframes cut much easier. Fixed up an old dogsled type sleigh to pull around with the snowmobile, and a few other brackets and things.

 

[WillyBoy]

I've put together a few small projects with the stuff. It mig welds pretty well.
As others have mentioned, I made a lovely toothless band saw blade out of a good one.

 

[imagineer]

Whereas I didn't "build" with an old bed frame, I did drill some holes in one to install an underbed gun safe. Whatever Chineseium alloy was used was for the rails was very difficult to drill through.

If I have to do another similar project, I'll disassemble the frame and use a plasma cutter to make any needed holes.

 

[Riverrat]

I use bed frames for numerous projects. I get the frames and other steel at the local landfill in the metal recycling area. Free is always in my budget! When I need to drill the bed frames I start with an 1/8 inch cobalt pilot drill bit. Use plenty of cutting oil and slow rpm. When going up in hole size use a bit that is the size of the web of the the final drill size. When using a large drill bit slow the rpm. Use plenty of cutting oil and sharp drill bits.

 

[GarageHobbyist]

This is what will be my welding cart. Bed frame angle and a grill grate.

 

[The Cobbler]

one of my bed rail upcomming projects will be building an outdoor propane tank storage cage for the spare propane tank for the lift truck @ the volunteer warehouse. I've got my eyes open for wire mesh or expanded metal ( cheap ) for the project