The angle melts more easily than 60xx filler rod and may pull away from the bead. I switched to bolted joints so I don't know if a higher strength (lower melting) rod would help.
jsw
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Angle iron
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Noted. It wasn't the process of welding that caught me up. That semed to go well. It was the extreme embrittlement around the cooled weld. Snapped like plaster.
-- Jeff R.
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I have had good luck with Mig welding. But do not use bed frame angle iron for things that have much stress.
Around here the Goodwill and Salvation Army stores do not have cheap bedframes.
Dan
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I visited my local steel distributor yesterday. New structual steel is now $1.16 per pound if you buy mill length 20'. Stuff from thier scrap bin is .53 per pound.
Best Regards Tom.
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A couple of years ago I paid 20 cents per pound at a South Dakota yard I visit when driving through there, up from 15 cents a pound a few years before that. 3 months ago I bought a few hundred pounds at 30 cents per pound.
Here are some pictures of some 15-cent-per-pound chrome-plated-drops bins and rust-plated-drops bins in 2002, all of which are long gone, replaced by other stuff & now twice the price: