Curved steel companies may receive the same requests for quotations, but their actual products may not be of the same quality. When purchasing straight steel, you largely know what to expect. There are standardized specifications and tolerances that steel mills Read more…
Category: Circular Staircases
Tina L.
Applications, Bending, Circular Staircases
June 12, 2016
Although on a smaller scale than the devastation caused by the recent tornadoes in Oklahoma, in Greensburg, Kansas, on May 4, 2007, a tornado destroyed the Big Well Museum and Gift Shop as well as the nearby water tower. No Read more…
Kevin
Circular Staircases, Special Bending
May 22, 2016
Some steel bending projects require the equipment and expertise from what might be called different disciplines within the bender/roller world. A recent example involved a large beam stringer for a spiral staircase. It required W24x84 wide flange beams over 45′ Read more…
Gary
Circular Staircases, Special Bending, Tube Bending
March 1, 2017
During this recession, we have repeatedly heard that because of the limited amount of work available, steel fabricators, whether structural or ornamental, are bidding on work they normally would not do. For one ornamental fabricator that meant fabricating a circular Read more…
Mo
Circular Staircases, Special Bending
May 22, 2016
Recently, a miscellaneous steel fabricator came to me with a very challenging project for circular stairs. They were looking to make a curved monumental staircase using 20 x 8 x 5/8 rectangular tubes. The stair was elliptical, had a reverse Read more…
Ken
Applications, Circular Staircases
May 22, 2016
Roller/benders in the steel industry (those who specialize in curving steel) often work with miscellaneous and ornamental fabricators providing them with helical stair stringers to create circular stairs. Most often these circular staircases are rather large, suitable for a ballroom Read more…
George
Circular Staircases, Plate Rolling, Special Bending
May 22, 2016
The monumental circular staircase at the Drexel University Integrated Sciences Building were created by helical steel plate rolling of 68,000 pounds of 2 inch thick, 16 inch deep solid plate stringers. 2 x 16 steel flats were rolled to a Read more…
Dan
Bending, Circular Staircases, Special Bending
May 22, 2016
Circular staircases can wind up-right or up-left. Saying that the staircase curves in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction is ambiguous: Is it the direction as seen from the bird flying above or as seen from the worm below? Alternately Read more…
Andy
Bending, Circular Staircases, Special Bending
May 22, 2016
The beautiful staircase below was made more attractive by incorporating profile bending to create helical handrails. The profiles are comprised of ½ x 2-1/2in flat bar (top rail) and traditional handrail moulding (bottom rail) both rolled the hard way to Read more…
George
Bending, Circular Staircases, Special Bending, Tube Bending
May 22, 2016
First of all, the footwork. A narrow, tight-radius spiral staircase (the kind that comes in a kit form) challenges you to step carefully on each tread but might allow you the use of handrails on each side of the steps. Read more…
