"Tom Bloom" wrote in message
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I'd like to build porch railings as a first ornamental iron project. King
Archetectural Metals has a great selection of materials. I'm looking for
suggestions on what material type is a good choice for this project.

For example, should 1 " posts be solid or square tubing? If I use tubing,
the choices are 16 ga (O&P), 14 ga (P&O) and 11 ga plain hot rolled. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Tom



For 1 inch I would use the 11ga hot rolled. For 1/2 I would use solid.

The thin walled tubing is for the junk they sell at Home Depot etc.

The thin stuff looks like it would be found on a trailer somewhere.

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Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.