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Learn how to build a spiral staircase with tips and techniques such as choosing material, welding the stairs and pickets, and attaching the hand rail.
There are 15 videos in this series:
Learn the materials needed to build a spiral staircase in your own home in this free DIY video.
Learn about sizing and choosing steps when building a spiral staircase in your own home in this free DIY video.
Learn how to weld pickets when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to make the center pole when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to set the center pole when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to weld steps to the center pole when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to bend the hand rail when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to attach the hand rail when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to weld a picket to a rail when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Tips on grinding when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to heat the pole when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to take down the staircase when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to build a top platform when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn how to attach the platform when building a spiral staircase in this free DIY video.
Learn the importance of using useful tools such as computers in building spiral staircases in this free DIY video.
Spiral steel staircases are extremely space efficient and sturdy, allowing people to climb to a higher floor by spiraling in a tight radius. Making one of these staircases requires some considerable skill in steel fabrication. This process involves cutting and molding the metal and using it to create a structure. Welding is also an important aspect to steel fabrication and can be used to build these spiral staircases.
In this free video series, Wendell Moon, fabrication and welding expert, demonstrates some key components of building a spiral staircase including: choosing material shape, size, and gauge, attaching the stairs, pickets, hand rail, and platform.
Wendell Moon Weldon Moon hase been welding for thirty one years. He started in the oil fields in eastern Utah as a welder’s helper and quickly decided that welding was the profession that he wanted to pursue. He soon bought a portable rig and worked hard to get certified to weld for the Shell Oil Company. He spent a lot of hours welding and enrolled in college classes at the local extension college to obtain additional training in stick welding. He certified for Shell near the end of the year in 1975. In 1976 he obtained employment as a subcontractor for Reese’s Metal Works and later with Flare Industries in Coalville, UT working the new oil fields of the Overthrust Belt in Utah and Wyoming. He certified in pipe welding for companies such as Quasar, Amoco, Mt. Fuel, Chevron, and others many times over the next thirteen years and welded on pipelines, refineries, collection systems, tank batteries and oil rigs. In 1988 he started building for Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp. in Salt Lake City. He now runs American Eagle Welding in Salt Lake City.dkdk
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