High output handrail - progress pic!

I think I'd mentioned it a long time ago, but I've been working on building a custom handrail for the front of our house. It's only a couple steps up, but some of our company is getting older and less stable, and it's been long overdue. Well today was a good day for making progress, and I'm happy with it so far since it's turning out how I rehearsed - so I took a pic to share.



1. I left the poles long so that I could trim them to fit. I'm thinking that they'll be trimmed at the same angle as the handrail, then covered and connected with a chrome or polished valve cover from an inline 6. Said valve cover may also receive a lick or two of fire on it's way there, but we'll see.

2. Yes, I know I need to clean up that corner of the porch. It was a quick place to toss some stuff out of my wagon so that I could haul laundry the other morning.

Anyway - there's my "Hi-Output Handrail" and even more uneeded proof that I married the most tolerant woman on earth.

Peace,
John

Sweet John, and yes, you married a good one, but the cam lobes don't look to Hi-Output to me.
Yeah, the chrome valve cover would finish it right off. Maybe etched flames.

Mike

PS: should have used floating wrist pins.

Bewber wrote:

2. Yes, I know I need to clean up that corner of the porch. It was a quick place to toss some stuff out of my wagon so that I could haul laundry the other morning.

hmm should i bring up my f150 rather than my wagon next week?

What are the specs on the cam.

How do we really know it's high output?

Could be from an old 60's Ford 289!

Nice work John!

I still think this is incredibly badass.

Love it John!

I want to see someone slide down that rail.

The cam is just a bone stock aftermarket CHEVY 350 cam, but it was brand new in the box when I took it to the powdercoater. I believe the pistons and conrods are from a 1961 327 CHEVY. One things is for sure though - there are ZERO Ford parts on my house!

Mike OZ - Not sure what you mean on the wristpins, but I assume it'd be so that the whole assembly could move up and down a little rotating at the wristpin? I thought about that, but it wasn't possible to assemble it that way and I didn't want the weight of the assembly to live at rest against the piston skirts - so I just made it all rigid.

Ian - I'm not getting why you'd bring the truck.

Fred - I'm one step ahead of you. I made it CRYSTAL clear to the kids that it was a HANDRAIL, and NOT a swing, or part of a jungle gym - and that they better NEVER be caught hanging from it, swinging on it, sliding down it, or even touching it with any body part that's not called a hand.

Thanks guys!

John that is 1 of your best ideas ever and yes you have a remarkably patient wife.You need
to send a picture of that to Hot Rod magazine and Popular Mechanics and see if they might
put it their magazines.
JG

Bewber wrote:

there are ZERO Ford parts on my house!

Semantics! What a difference a single letter can make.... In/ On

My wife says no..... .....

cool!!!

Mike: do it anyway.

You know what they say: It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Fred Kiehl wrote:

I want to see someone slide down that rail.

Someone with hemorrhoids!

It's badass John.

Agreed that you have the most tolerant woman in the world! Also send us a picture of your wife, so the rest of us will know what a Saint looks like.

Thanks again guys.

For those who haven't seen or met my fair maiden, here's a quick pic of us earlier this year. Sorry I didn't have time to crop myself out of it for yous.



Jim, The handrail isn't really that big of a deal or a surprise if you know about my bathroom. Do a youtube search for "hot rod bathroom" and check it out.

Nice picture of you guys!!! Tell you better half we missed her at WF.

Jim - YOU NEED TO SEE HIS BATHROOM!!!!!

That is a sweet idea!! Looks great!!

Bathroom pics?

What? lol

It's on the wtf.GMlongroofbathroomforum/uberbewber.com

That's the one. Thanks Tim!

Nice hand rail John.....(thinking of putting a few odd ford parts here and there in/on your house withou you knowing next week)

Pat,

Put a huge blue ellipse on his front door......

a nice 12ft blue oval on the roof,. with the F***d sign lit up nice for christmas,.

.. and the only reason Nick stopped at 12ft, is that it would still fit under most overpasses and bridges in those small towns on the way there. As a professional driver, he would be aware of these things!

12 ft it still fit in the wagon too