Metal Railing Fabrication and Installation

actual railing for the railing the first parts I want to start with is actually the posts themselves and so the first step is to figure out the the angle that the post would be sitting so all I took was a tee bevel and I've attached a magnetic small little level to it once I found the actual true center of the upright of it I then found out the angle to be what it needed to be using a protractor and then I started cutting things away using a diamond blade with my chops off for the metal for the actual materials that I used it was the O six five wall thickness which is basically an eighth of an inch thick when it comes to steel the post M cells were two by two the top of the railing was a 2 by 1 and then the H individual little slats if you will they were running down horizontally we're 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch material now due to the nature of the railing where it kind of angles and pivots different directions I knew that it wasn't realistic for me to build on my garage and then try to assemble it and make it work in my house so my best execution was to install the post upright first make sure they're nice and straight and then tack welding each individual piece into its secure place it allowed for me to make sure that everything did move and everything lined up exactly where I needed to be I used a welding blanket below my surface that I was working at to make sure the little splatter and sparks didn't catch my house on fire and didn't damage all the hard work that were already put in once everything's secured me my wife took everything off brought her to my garage and then I finished everything off with good strong welding beads in the garage once all the welding and grinding was done I was ready to start degreasing I'd greased it with the acetone to make sure that none of the oils and greases interfere with the finishing color that we're gonna put on it now originally my plan was to powder coat these railings and honestly it was just way too expensive to do so so I decided to give it more of a DIY approach and being metal I decided to kind of treat it like a car and what a car would withstand his durability so I first put down an automotive self-etching primer it's a primer that would put down on the bare metal of the car before paint goes on it once the primer was on I was ready to start putting the paint and for the paint again I stuck on the automotive side and I used a rust-oleum automotive matte black finish paint they advertised this stuff for…