Sources for free steel

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Stuart

You are right on track, old bed frame stock is something that should never go to the dump if you do any welding at all. If you cut the rivets you can reduce the storage space for a couple of old bed frames to almost nothing.

Stuff welds great, now as to want projects have I used it for, fuel can rack on one of the trucks, auxiliary steps.

Now of course there is the question of using the correct period steel for the age of your truck. The old bed frames 1930's to 1960's are true angle iron cold rolled with a sharp corner. Some time in the 1970's the started to go over to stuff that is bent and cut from flat sheet stock so that it has a radius edge.

Cheers Phil