HazMatt-SKO
Senior Member
Just had the opportunity to chat with my neighbor from down in the tony, 50 amp end of the park. He's a retired welder.
The kind of welder that worked in commissioning nuclear power plants, so you know he's no slouch with a stick (or a MIG, TIG, wire, or purt near any other sort of welding there may be)!
I have been thinking of buying or renting a stick welder. Tho the last time I fused metal was an embarrassingly long time ago, in HS Metal Shop. My seams always looked suspiciously like an iron rabbit had just relieved itself...
Anyhoo, told him of my intent to put up an @ 8' X 20' roof deck, using square stock tube steel.
He rejoined with telling me about his stockpile of angle iron, and the rust reasons for why that'd be a better option.
Soooooo... Which would be the preferred material of choice? All of one or the other, or maybe a combination of the two?
I'm envisioning square for the pillars & posts, bare minimum, the studs mounted onto the ribs: at, or just above, the rain gutter.
And while my deck will be resting on the 2 transverse rails running the roofs' length, it's to be shimmed up several inches with square stock between them & the deck's underside.
Planning on removable rail posts that can be slipped into receiver collars on the pillars' top end (just above deck height), when not in transit.
[Not pertinent to the primary question, but to then connect them with running rails of turnbuckled rope/cable (better option for weight), or solid angle iron rails that can be fabricated to slip on (" " " strength). Feel free to chime in on that too, please!]
To minimize the the strain on my admittedly way limited welding skills, I reckon that the deck underlayment could then be constructed of pre-tapped angle iron, and then mostly bolted together in situ, with lock washers & LOTSA Lok-Tite on the threads.
The kind of welder that worked in commissioning nuclear power plants, so you know he's no slouch with a stick (or a MIG, TIG, wire, or purt near any other sort of welding there may be)!
I have been thinking of buying or renting a stick welder. Tho the last time I fused metal was an embarrassingly long time ago, in HS Metal Shop. My seams always looked suspiciously like an iron rabbit had just relieved itself...
Anyhoo, told him of my intent to put up an @ 8' X 20' roof deck, using square stock tube steel.
He rejoined with telling me about his stockpile of angle iron, and the rust reasons for why that'd be a better option.
Soooooo... Which would be the preferred material of choice? All of one or the other, or maybe a combination of the two?
I'm envisioning square for the pillars & posts, bare minimum, the studs mounted onto the ribs: at, or just above, the rain gutter.
And while my deck will be resting on the 2 transverse rails running the roofs' length, it's to be shimmed up several inches with square stock between them & the deck's underside.
Planning on removable rail posts that can be slipped into receiver collars on the pillars' top end (just above deck height), when not in transit.
[Not pertinent to the primary question, but to then connect them with running rails of turnbuckled rope/cable (better option for weight), or solid angle iron rails that can be fabricated to slip on (" " " strength). Feel free to chime in on that too, please!]
To minimize the the strain on my admittedly way limited welding skills, I reckon that the deck underlayment could then be constructed of pre-tapped angle iron, and then mostly bolted together in situ, with lock washers & LOTSA Lok-Tite on the threads.
