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Most people seem to recommend stainless steel for racks, but I'd probably need to up my MIG game to get decent welds. Contamination being easier, and my welder living amongst spiders in a shed.
I've been MIGing a fair bit of stainless recently making trelliseseseses for the garden. I'm not enjoying it. I like TIGing stainless, but given that the last two trelliseseseses had over 30 joints to weld, I'd still be doing it if I'd used TIG.
Depends on the loads you want to carry on the rack, but I would've thought 10mm mild steel would be fine. Personally I'd use 4130 or T45, but that's because I'm daft.
Brommers
@Scrabble
I want a little project, I own a mig welder and want a rack like this:
What steel would folks recommend? The easiest to mig weld is mild steel, but will 10mm tubes of this be strong enough? Will they bend too easy?
Most people seem to recommend stainless steel for racks, but I'd probably need to up my MIG game to get decent welds. Contamination being easier, and my welder living amongst spiders in a shed.
Any advice?