Stainless rail

[Guest]

I want to buy a stainless steel rail for mounting ontop of my wheelhouse roof (on a rlm 27) to mount my radar reflector and gps arial,rail needs to be standard 25mm dia x 1200mm long but about 300/400mm high .
Can I buy it from a chandlery or will I have to have it made?

RLM MIKE

 

[hlb]

Probably cheaper to get it made anyway. Have a ring round sheet metal workers or fabricators in the yellow pages. (Little ones) Furtherest away from the sea the better. Must have special stainless for the sea though. Not the cheap crappy stuff. Just ask. Some one will put you on to the right guy.

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Haydn

 

[tr7v8]

Mike,

a lot of specialised food processor manufacturers are capable of this.
The only one that I know of is Cobra Engineering in Wisbech.
Most food manufacturing kit is built using very good quality stainless
to very high standards.

Regards

Jim
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[trev]

Be very careful if buying from non-marine vender - very difficult to find marine grade stainless away from the water.
Windward Marine do a stainless range of handrails from 1 ft up to 4ft long at 22mm dia which may be adaptable for your purpose.
They aren't too expensive either.
Try them on 0845 1300 710 or website www.windward-marine.com

Trev

 

[cfrew]

Go to the Marine Directory

http://www.ybw-directory.com/directory/home.html

look under Deck Hardware (Stanchions, guardrails) and it will list all the companies that offer this product.

or alternatively

do a keyword search for your county or town and it will allow you to search through all your local marine businesses.

best of luck

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[jfm]

Agree, it's much cheaper to avoid marine fabricators.

You need to use 316 stainless. That wont rust much. You need to decide how pukka a job you need. Frexample, you can buy 316 tube, bend it yourself in a pipe bender, and weld feet on using s/s welding rods in your 110amp home arc welder. Will be ok, not pukka

A local (non marine) fabricator should be able to do it with batter (argon) welding

If you want a top pukka job you need to have it electropolished when all welded up. That's the only way to get the "chrome smooth" finish that is on most boat pulpits etc. This is the point at which it costs much more £££

 

[Freebee]

If you do decide to fabriacate yourself don't use any cutting tools, files, angle grinders wheels or wire brushes that have previously been used on ordinary steel because they shed tiny particles that will rust and ruin the finish!