Black Pipe Staircase Handrail

hey youtube today I'm making some handrail for the staircase going down to my basement and I'm gonna make that out of black pipe so today I've got some black pipe I've got inch and a quarter black pipe that is basically ends up the outside diameter that ends up being an inch and five-eighths so it ends up being pretty good size about the right size for your hand for a handrail so I needed 13 feet I need to be 13 feet to go from the top to the bottom and they only sold 10 foot sticks of this pipe so what I've done is I really want when you put your hand on this and you go down the staircase I want it to be smooth all the way down I don't want to have a bunch of fittings you know in there going over the brackets on the walls and and threading the two pieces of pipe together that you hit your hand on so I just want to be smooth all the way down so I'm going to on this main section right here that you put your hand on I'm going to weld the pipe to it and what I did for the main section is I've cut to six and a half foot pieces I've welded those together so I've got one 13 foot piece so basically what it is I just chamfered the two edges of the pipe butted them together I got them all lined up here shim them so everything was all nice and straight and then I just I just welded that together I'm not a welder I've got a I've got a MIG welder that I've had for many years but I just I pretty much just build that up and try to cover up all my flaws and imperfections and get it built up high enough that I can just grind it back down and make it look like the pipe so I've got it all ground down right now and it's pretty well smooth about smooth as I'm going to get it so it's probably not going to be very noticeable when you when you paint it it probably will be not too noticeable to the eye but when you your hand down and go down the handrail you're in you're gonna feel it you're gonna know it's been welded so I've got my 13 foot piece of Maine pipe here and then I just threaded inch-and-a-quarter caps on the end so it's got the fittings on the the very end to look like the black pipe and then what I'm going to use on to attach it to the wall I'm going to use one-inch pipe and one-inch pipe flanges to go to the wall and then I'm just going to take those I'm just gonna weld them to the bottom some some we're not using any fittings in this main section so let me put those together I'll show you what I mean so this is what I have to hang it on the wall this is a one inch pipe flange this is a 1 inch street elbow so it's a got a female thread on one side and a male thread on the other side and then I took a four inch nipple I cut it in half and threaded it in here and where it's cut off here this is where we're gonna weld that to the the top of the handrail we've got four of these we're going to weld them on there and this is how we'll mount the handrail or attach the handrail to the wall with these pipe flanges so the pipe line does that mount to the wall when I weld those on to the handrail I wanted to be all nice and straight just like they would be on the wall so I needed to mount them to something that's flat straight not twisted and so I tried laying a board out it's hard to find one that went ahead a little twist in it that is perfectly straight so what I've come up with is just using the door to the pole barn so this board here is long enough and it's straight and it's not twisted so I've went ahead and I've mounted two of the pipe line this on there I've got two more to mount up and then once I get them on there I'll go ahead and we'll go ahead start tacking the handrail down to all of these brackets and then once they're all good and tacked we'll go ahead take this off and put it on the sawhorses and finish welding it out [Music] [Music] [Music] well it's the next day I got everything ground or welded and kind of ground down it's pretty smooth roughly if smooth around each one of the welds on here and today I'm going to just kind of sand this all down just try to make it just a little bit smoother before we paint it now I don't have a sanding disc when I'm flapper looking discs for angle grinder so all I have is a palm sander so I got 80 grit paper on here I'm just going to kind of run this around see if I can smooth this out a little bit more and then we're gonna get this painted up [Music] [Music] so I'm about all ready to paint this so before I paint it I want to degrease it make sure there's no oils left and any of these fittings are on the pipe and I don't know what the proper thing to do is but what I have is I've just got some mineral spirits and I've taken this rag soaked it in mineral spirits and I'm just gonna wipe everything really good and then this mineral spirits evaporates really quickly so it will not take long for the mineral spirits to evaporate off the pipe I'm hoping that any of the oils and dirt will end up inside of this rag and then yeah here in a few minutes we'll spray-paint it you know put probably three coats on I'm going to put a flat black enamel on it I think I've got some rust-oleum that's what I've been using on everything so far I don't know if it's the best stuff in the world but that's what I got I think out here in this hot Sun that this black paint will dry pretty quick [Applause] [Music] hoping by the end the day to have this thing mounted maybe that's a little ambitious maybe I should let it sit a little bit well it's been a few minutes so we're gonna go ahead and apply a second coat probably do this one more time and then we're going to get this rolled so that we can get any spots on the bottom that we missed right now just that first coat on it it looks pretty good it's I'm really kind of surprised and how well it actually looks it looks it looks pretty good I [Music] almost forgot that I needed to paint some screws to screw it to the wall so these are some number 14 wood screws I think these work out really good in those one inch pipe flanges we're gonna put a few coats on these just worried about getting the heads and inside the Phillips so everything that shows is black we'll do a few coats on these two all right I got three coats on it so now I'm just going to roll it up and we're going to go ahead and put three coats along the bottom in a few places that we couldn't quite get and we'll be done hang so after the paint dried that evening we went ahead brought the handrail back to the house and we got our all mounted up so I think it looks pretty good here on the long the staircase to the basement it ended up taking probably three nights after work I'd say and then one day few hours just to get it painted up turned out pretty good pretty happy with the results you can't really tell where it's welded really by looking at it but it's welded right in this section right in here but you can feel it when you rub your hands down the rail you can feel it you can tell where it is but overall it's not noticeable so that's the main thing I'll pretty happy with the results so this is my version of a black pipe handrail thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Country View Acres

Views: 34,719

Rating: 4.8980894 out of 5

Keywords: Log, Home, Cabin, Rustic, wrought, iron, black, pipe, handrail, hand rail, stair, staircase, weld, welded, diy, railing

Id: KkIVzUCiTeo

Length: 10min 12sec (612 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 26 2018