breckrider
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2008
- Messages
- 67
- Reaction score
- 8
I'm covering old trolley style tracks in a warehouse and want to use a ramset to fasten 12" wide strips of 1/8 in thick metal to the floor with a ramset. Is this possible?
fastening a strip if 1/8th" thick sheet metal to a concrete floor
- Thread starter breckrider
- Start date
Help Support House Repair Talk:
joecaption
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Jan 8, 2011
- Messages
- 2,599
- Reaction score
- 496
#1, Please post a picture so we can see what your seeing.
#2, Will it work, sort of.
#3, If these old tracks set at or just below the floor level there's a far better way to do this that will give you a flat hard surface to walk or push something over.
#2, Will it work, sort of.
#3, If these old tracks set at or just below the floor level there's a far better way to do this that will give you a flat hard surface to walk or push something over.
breckrider
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2008
- Messages
- 67
- Reaction score
- 8
I'll get pictures today
Jeff Handy
Well-Known Member
Maybe you can fill the gaps around the tracks with patching concrete?
And leave that as the final surface, or at least as a better base for the metal, so it will not settle into the voids.
And leave that as the final surface, or at least as a better base for the metal, so it will not settle into the voids.
breckrider
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2008
- Messages
- 67
- Reaction score
- 8
I've done one and did fill the gaps with patching concrete. Drilled holes then used tapcon screws but there's
got to be faster/better way to do this.
got to be faster/better way to do this.
slownsteady
Well-Known Member
When I think of trolley tracks, I see them as higher than ground level. So putting metal down would not make sense to me. I think that even an eighth inch would add to an uneven floor.
I worked in a large industrial plant for 43 years and we often had to remove railroad rail imbedded into floors. I never liked leaving the steel rail in the floors as it will comeback some day to haunt you when doing something else. Plus there is the scrap value of getting it out may just pay for a good part of the project.
We would saw cut on both sides to get a square edge, then jack hammer it out and then a new pour to finish the surface flush.
We would saw cut on both sides to get a square edge, then jack hammer it out and then a new pour to finish the surface flush.
