Recent content by AustroTom

Thank you for your tip. I will certainly try that (although I actually did that as well). I have one more staircase to build. BTW: the same happend with building the railing frame (Inserts are glass). When welding the 1" x 2" rect. alu tubing as cap rail to the vertical posts the tube obviously...

No matter where and how i heated it wouldn't straighten so i just took the hammer to it:giggle:. Pounded them out just outside of the welds and worked like a charm. Not concerned about the dimples since it'll be completely veneered with wood anyway. Thank you for all your input though. Thomas

Wait, so what your'e saying is I should heat the "center" of the tread plate?? This will bend the plate down even more because I would "shrink" the upper layer of the plate, no?? When I heated it up yesterday (and flash cooled it), it even bent down further. Was this due to the fact that I...

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I will take pics today and post here. Maybe that'll make it easier

Hello, New here and wanted to chime in: I just tried exactly that, (I'm building some stringer satircases with 1" x 12" stringers and 1/2" tread plates). The tread plates are welded to the stringers from underneath and therefore bend down in the middle. So I tried to heat the weld line on the...