I am a frame builder AMA

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Brommers in reply to @Scrabble

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.

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MCamb in reply to @Brommers

Where would t45 sit on the Reynolds product scale..?

To put it another way, if you used heat treated 4130 would it be similar to t45 or is one superior? Or is it a little more complicated than that

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PhilDAS in reply to @MCamb

T45 is stainless I thought.
Not sure the same kind of alloy as Reynolds 953/931

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