Metal Emergency Staircase Handrail Build | JIMBO'S GARAGE

[Music] welcome Jimbo's garage good afternoon everyone and welcome back to Jimbo's garage on today's video we're gonna be building a handrail for an emergency exit staircase outside of a commercial building we're gonna be using some 2x2 some 1 by 2s and three-quarter inch square tube oh nine three thickness which is a little less than a for an eighth of an inch let's get started today's video all right so I meant to say oh nine five ninety five thousands for that for the material thickness there so we're just cutting everything we need to length or at least as many pieces as I need for this first part of the build right here and now once I got the pieces cut to get over to the burger king you know when you cut them with the cut-off saw it develops a sharp edge on there and it's nice to be able to D breuer everything makes for good fabrication and then I'm not cutting the pickets right here you can see that I've got them stacked in there four wide I've tried to use as many as you know four wide and four tall it's just too many at a time this seems to work the best and so that's the way I do it the most efficient way right here for me anyway has cut a lot four at a time once I got everything cut there's many pieces I need it's time to start fabricating the first of the two five foot panels here and we're gonna be operating off the Everlast power MTS 2:52 STI this is a fairly new machine right here I've got it accompanied with the 400 series water cooler this thing offers standard MIG synergic MIG spool gun capability AC DC and AC DC pulse standard stick and also 6010 capability well it's a very complicated looking screen but once you get used to it you just set you worked with the mode you're working that in this case this is standard Meg we've set it at eighteen and a half volts I'm running about 225 inches a minute here to start with we'll see how that works and the first thing is to start assembly in the first part of the frame now you can see I'm using my a corner vice right here now this is something that I've used for a long time works really well as a matter of fact I'd like to get like four of them so I can just build the whole frame at one time and just go right around and well living together that might be something that I may be doing in the near future here you can see I just do one corner at a time and have to prop everything up with one by material to be sure everything is nice and square but anyways it is what it is I'll work my way around this thing and just getting everything tacked right now I'm not welding anything out I've been doing this a lot lately just tacking everything into position before I weld everything all the way through and you can see that that 1 by 2 is the top rail and it's on a 45 more about that here a little bit later on alright so here's the pickets and I'm just spacing those out you know I get a lot of people ask me you know how do you space those pickets out and how do you not come with a real audience eyes at the end of the panel well you know I just lay these things out and and you know space them out as best as I can and then when I get to the last 3 or 4 I double checking the measurements and I can a space mount accordingly sometimes you know they're off a quarter inch at a time or you know the last three but that's something that you'll really never really see unless I pointed it out to you that you can see that they all look fairly uniform right there you know these small pieces of blocks of wood I hang on to I use them for this purpose right here you know it works out really good I got tons of the different drops of a material and works out really good alright so I got everything all tacked into place right here and now it's time to go ahead and start welding these things out and you know sorry about the camera I've got an autofocus camera now usually shut that autofocus off but you know I forgot to do it in this case right here but yeah it'll be okay a little tool belt that I've been working with lately you know for a little tip cleaner and a pair light side cutters and some layout tools been working pretty good for me always cleaned out the end of the nozzle you know I'm welding everything out you can see I got this porosity right there the reason is is I ran out of gas and I knew something was happening that it just the wells started getting really ugly and there it was completely out of gas got the bottle changed up and back in business and here we go this is just a bottom plate right here that that I'm welding on this is that's gonna anchor to that to the surface of the concrete so it's gonna hold this thing in place and now once I got all that done and you know just weld everything all the way around and got it in oh well it out you can see that so far so good everything is coming along here really nice you know you might be able to see those yellow sleeves that I that I'm wearing right there you know III have sleeved for welding but you know I saw these on the internet and they said they're at Kevlar and you know here being in Southern California you know it's awfully hot now I'm always trying to look for something that's a little bit more comfortable a little bit more lightweight but I got to tell you I tried him out for the first time here on this and I don't think I'm gonna be using again they're kind of like a a one time shot type of deal there were only six bucks and after this project I was working on they they were pretty much worn out and pretty much super dirty I got everything all well Mountain and I've just taken the grinder and grinding all the wells nice and smooth now you know I like to do that I get a lot of people say what why do you do that you know you you you sacrifice the strength of the well by by grinding it nice and smooth but you know what I've never had any issues with it and you know I like grinding everything smooth the outside wells especially it just makes for a good-looking project and you know you get some paint on it it just looks like it's a nicer project so that's the reason why I do that right here so we're starting on the second part of this elf frame you know both sections are about five feet long right here and you can see I've got the first section they're all leveled out and anchored to my welding table and this is the second section and I'm gonna build this in place right here I just wanted to be sure that everything was gonna line up perfectly and fit real good and I wanted everything nice and level I know I'm afraid if I build this panel separately and put it together it may not line up perfectly like like I was hoping for so you know a lot of clamps get everything a lot of shims get everything right where it needs to be and and once I got everything tacked I knew it was moving the up the frame itself I just went ahead and welded everything out on that part so I knew it wasn't gonna be moving and then here's the top reeled you can see there's that 45 that I was earlier on in the first panel I slipped the top rail here and it was a perfect fit I went ahead and got everything welded here all the way around and and I will be grinding that down a little bit later and it's gonna look like it was all one piece so that does the reason why I did that once I got the frame and the upper handrail and part of the rail welded on you can see I'm having to do everything to get all kinds of different positions I'm actually on top of the welding table right here for this but years ago all done it's time to put the pickets in and this was a little bit of work right here you know this is not preferable but it took me a little time to get figured out what I was doing right here but you know a little help with a mag square held everything in place and the spacers I got everything where it needed to be tacked it on the bottom and once I got all done on the bottom went to the top and got them spaced and tacked in as well you know a lot of work took a lot of time to do this but you know it was only five feet long so it wasn't a really big deal if it was 20 or 30 feet long probably would have killed me but you know four five feet not a big deal knowing that everything is gonna fit perfectly and and that was a I was a good choice and just again just grinding down the outside part of the welds getting everything grounded down here's that corner joint just get everything cleaned up really nice and you know made it look like it was one solid piece by the time it was all done you know now it's time to move on to the most difficult part of the thing at least for me I've never really done anything like this before this is uh this is the part of the the hand-rolled that that the steps wrong so that is an angle and to make everything fit right you know I had made this template and I was referring to this this template to build this thing and you can see I've got to set up on a welding table all on an angle you know and cut the I cut the pick it's on a certain degrees and and tried to get everything nice and perfect and I gotta say I was a little bit nervous because you know you spend a lot of time building this thing and putting it together and you get it out there to the jobsite and it doesn't fit you know the whole thing is scrapped so this is the first time I'd done something like this and I was just got really hoping that that it was going to turn out really good you know constantly you can see keeping everything nice and level is a key to to making sure everything is gonna fit down the road so I'm just working my way down right here and you know getting everything all welded in place once I got all the pickets tacked into place I got right down to the very end right here and now it's time to start putting the flat part of the handrail we're back on the level part of the sidewalk now you can see I've got all these diagrams on my welding table trying to get all the angles just right checking everything that I was so worried about this thing not fitting right after I've got all this time invested in it so anyways I'm just finishing everything up my hand right here you can see that I'm willing the the bottom post right here and then well in those angles back into place getting the posts on you know everything is fitting absolutely perfect so that's a good sign when everything you just cut everything and lay it into place and everything you know fits perfectly that that's a good sign that something's going right anyway well everything here I'm just going ahead and finishing up all the welds right here we're gonna get all those ground down in a little bit but once I got that frame all down and welded in it was time to get the last of the pickets in right here and I think there was four pickets or five pickets right here at the very end and you know spacing was a little bit of a problem here you know everything was at four inches on center up to this point and then in order to make it look right and I had to tighten it up to about three and a quarter inches but you know it again all in all you really can't tell by looking at it and you know it turned out pretty good so everything's all tacked together right now and now I'm just going along and it's time to get everything welded this is quite a process and you can see that you know I go along here and in Weld you know the front and the side and I do the best I can to to you know go all the way around and I get about I get about halfway around and then turn the thing around and get the other half but anyway it takes a little bit of time to get it done but I was able to to get it done and move along here pretty quickly alright so we're just finishing up the the pickets on this section right here you know that was a lot of welding both sides all the way around top and bottom but be able to get it done and then the final stage is here just the grinding the outer edges nice and smooth again this is just something that I like to do you know it just looks a lot better the finished product when you grind the welds down and get some paint on it looks like it's all one big piece right there so I like doing that so we're able to get that get it all done and there it is you know both pieces are complete this is two sections I will be installing welding them together on site we'll get some some prime and some paint on this thing and get it out to the job site and get them installed well there it is everything is complete and everything went in absolutely perfect I couldn't be more pleased on on how all of this came together it looks absolutely perfect everything fit the way it's supposed to fit and it was very satisfying to me that that it worked like that that was the first time that I've done something like that and you know it turned out pretty good so anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this video thanks for watching don't forget to rate comment subscribe for more video say a next time on Jimbo's garage

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Length: 12min 59sec (779 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 19 2018