Handrail Stanchions???

@Bob Delbridge posted:

What do you use for handrail stanchions?

PSC

Aircraft cotter pins come in sizes you want.  I forget the AN number, but I use them on my wood tank cars.

You might try ship model supplies - 3/8" is pretty long.  Threaded posts are my preference, and since Henry Pearce left us, nobody makes them.

Thanks guys. Martin, I couldn't find anything longer than the PSC P/N I mentioned.  I did find 2 cotter pins but they were just a bit too big to use.

Rummaging thru my parts boxes I found a piece of metal strip that's .030" wide and .010" thick, also found a piece of .062" diameter tubing.  I can bend the strip around the handrail, then insert it into the tubing and insert it into the boiler.  It's not as pretty as the short, cast stanchions but with enough paint slapped on them they should look the part.

That metal strip may have come from an old wood boxcar kit a bought a few years back, glad I kept it.