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Aluminum Non-Welded Series 500 Pipe Railing and Series 550 Pipe-Picket Railing are especially designed to utilize all the advantages of aluminum, where strength, durability and no-paint maintenance are key factors. Highest quality aluminum extrusions and castings are used with concealed fasteners, offering a smooth finish, making it the finest contemporary design available on the market today.
Components are easily assembled, without welding, by mechanical fasteners at intersections and by epoxy structural adhesive at splice joints. A wide range of fittings with continuous post and rails will fit practically any application.
Factory assembled railings are made to your exact specifications resulting in further on-site fabrication savings. Special curves or pipe radius can easily be fabricated to fit your job. Pipe-Picket Railing utilizes 3/4" Round Pickets located on 6" or 4-1/2" centers.
Posts and top rails are assembled to run in continuous lengths. This results in a system that is stronger than one with a cast tee and cross connections, and it provides a smooth top rail surface. Pipe rail assemblies up to 24 feet long can be shipped factory-assembled or knocked-down for reassembly.
TS-TECHNICAL SUPPORT
For continuous spans in excess of 40 feet, expansion joints should be provided. To make an expansion joint, one end of the spliced joint should not have structural adhesive applied so that it is free to move in or out of the pipe. If a joint is provided every 30 feet, the width of the gap should allow 1/8" expansion for each 40 degree F of expected temperature rise. All pipe railing splices should be made no more than 12" from the nearest post.
MATERIALS
All posts and rails shall be formed from extruded 6063-T6 aluminum of 1-1/2" Schedule 40 pipe size, except where there are formed elbows, whereby, 6063-T4 is used. All railing accessories shall be cast from ANSI 713 alloy. All fasteners used in the system shall be aluminum or stainless steel.
WORKMANSHIP
All pipe cuts shall be square and accurate for minimum joint-gap. Cuts shall be clean and free of chamfer, from deburring, nicks and burrs. Holes shall be drilled the proper size for a tight flush fit of rivets and screws. All post grouted in concrete must have one 1/4" diameter weep hole, 1/2" above post collar, in the plane of the rail.
RIGIDITY
Post spacing shall be contingent upon code requirements. All posts will be unspliced single pipe length. Lower rails shall be a single unspliced length between posts. All top rails shall be continuous whenever possible. All fasteners shall be tightened so that completed railing is rigid and completely free of play at joints and component attachments.
Series 500 Railing meets federal safety requirements as determined by an independent testing laboratory. Test results are available upon request. |