Rams Horn on hand rail pipe?

JB Weld.

You did say easiest.....

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You can buy that piece as a pre-made fitting from suppliers of ornamental castings. But I believe it's called a "lamb's tongue".

I have done numerous hanrail returns on pipe rail, some of them between flights of stairs and simple ones at the foot of stairs. The down and dirty way is to get some material bent up by a shop that specializes in bending then splice your return on to the rail. Unless you have some pretty fancy bending equipment you will not get a quality bend that will withstand the inspection of peoples' hands every day. I have seen quality bends done with sand filled pipe, a large torch and a very heavy table with a com-a-long. You are using galvanized so that is not an option. When you splice the return on it is much easier to do if you use a short insert inside the connection. Randy

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Maybe they have a weld-in piece for your application.

Hope this helps

Thanks Randy and others. I vaguely remembered seeing something like this somewhere once. We have at least one local steel supplier whose major business is fencing of various types based on gal pipe.

Been there, done that on much smaller gal and I know that it isn't easy at all. You really have to know "color/color".

Good tip, thanks.

Now to go "shopping"

A lambs tongue is a way of ending a flat bar railing. Never seen one in pipe. Never heard of a rams horn- but I guess its some sort of bent pipe that ends the railing.

If you want to buy parts to fit pipe, the main supplier for these parts is RB Wagner- they sell to all the smaller distributors, like King, Jansen, and Classic Iron. They make pretty much everything for pipe, in all kinds of metals and sizes, and will do custom anything you can think of.

If you want ornamental iron components, here are a couple of more companies that stock and sell lots of it.

Its really not that hard to bend a lot of this stuff yourself, with a hossfeld bender- which, tooled up, runs from $700 to maybe $2000, but can be used to bend all kinds of stuff besides just pipe.