Roof Handles

She has handles!

Saturday was spent finding a new talent...well maybe "talent" is a strong word.

Take two!... Saturday was spent discovering another thing that I needed to learn.

The car has a few areas that had been removed from its original state.

One one them where the handrails that are on the top of the copula.

They were cut off. I can only assume that it was done to make it harder for unwanted visitors on the top of the car while it was in storage.

So along with the ladder rungs and ladder rails, the top hand rails will need to go back on.

The weekend was spent doing part of that and learning how to bend 3/4" round stock.

These are the anchor points of what was the hand rails.

I ground them flat to give a better surface to weld the new rails to.

Then the fun began

It started with finding this awesome deal on a bender...29.95!!!

SOLD!

I started with a templet. later I would find an easier way.

Then the first bend!

It lined up GREAT!

I had to fit a small riser support at the corner.

#'s 2,3 and 4 went way faster.

I actually bent all three of the remaining corners then welded them at the same time.

It saved these old legs a lot of ups and downs 

I laid the rail over the mounting locations and marked the actual rail it self. No more templet.

Next was cutting the raiser height on the remaining three.

 #2

#3

1 , 2, 3 and 4!

Grind-ed to look nice and primed

Next... The ladders