5bar alloy flooring?

[dogwood]

After my last post about dodgy steel,
I have just been looking on Parker steel site.

I've got a question about alloy flooring.
I used 2mm 5251 alloy plate.
On Parkers steel they are showing 2mm 5bar tread 5754 alloy plate

Assuming the 5bar tread is raised up.
Does anyone know if this is 2mm plus the tread thickness
or 2mm including the tread?
Also what is the difference between 5251 and 5754?

Cheers David

[londonsean69]

After my last post about dodgy steel,
I have just been looking on Parker steel site.

I've got a question about alloy flooring.
I used 2mm 5251 alloy plate.
On Parkers steel they are showing 2mm 5bar tread 5754 alloy plate

Assuming the 5bar tread is raised up.
Does anyone know if this is 2mm plus the tread thickness
or 2mm including the tread?
Also what is the difference between 5251 and 5754?

Cheers David
Give me 5 mins, and I will pop out the back and measure the sheet I have

Done:D

2mm without the bar (ie on the flat bits)
Approx 3.2mm with the bars

So 2mm PLUS the tread

Hope that helps

[dogwood]

Cheers Sean.
That's what I was hoping.



David

[AshG]

may i ask how you plan to get 8X4 sheets back to france? :D

[dogwood]

Don't even start with me.........:eek:
Bloody Parkers gave me all that....:mad:

see my post dodgy steel....:D


David

Incase you wondered, this is how
I did it last time....
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p212/muddypaws4x4/Picture052.jpg

[AshG]

i see you and raise you this

http://www.haynesroadster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/riot%20small/riot01.JPG

[flyerncle]

David, I think the numbers refer to hardness ie 5000 is half hard (may be wrong ):D

[londonsean69]

Let me google that for you:D

http://tinyurl.com/yjz55k4

Second result - Roymech - a very very handy site for many engineering related questions, bolt sizes and pitches etc.

[gingea1pom]

i see you and raise you this

http://www.haynesroadster.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/riot%20small/riot01.JPG

My offering

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee46/gingea1pom/random/LRTRL2.jpg

[HandyAndy]

i didn,t take a photo but i,ve recently had over 200mtrs of box erw steel inside my van , picked up in batches, cut into 3mtrs lengths carrying 40 lengths a time :eek: :D & its all for Roadster builds

andy
i,ll take the camera next time:)

[georgenewman1]

hi, im pretty sure that the thickness of the bars is ontop of the plate, so the plate will still measure 2mm, plus the pattern. would 5 bar plate be sufficient for the floor however ans with the bar pattern it will be verry difficult to get a seal around the edges of the pannel and also not giving full contace could reduce the strength too, :)

[fabbyglass]

Not ideal stuff to use but if you must then lay your chassis on it, mark out where the tubes run then whizz any bumps off with a whizzy so the plate sits flat on the chassis...the floor adds stiffness to the chassis so no good unless it makes full contact really. Would have thought normal ali sheet would be easier and a lot cheaper unless you have got it for nowt that is.

[Talonmotorsport]

The 5 raised bars of the tread plate are easily ground or sanded away flat around the edges with a fibre sanding disk in a grinder, word of warning here wear a mask as inhaled ally dust has been proved to cause....erm what was it.......oh bugger ........oh yeah alzheimers.

[londonsean69]

Would have thought normal ali sheet would be easier and a lot cheaper unless you have got it for nowt that is.

Yeah, but I think the 5 Bar looks nicer;) And a shed load of scratches/dings won't show up half as much as they would on a plain ally floor.