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Steel Surface
Plate Precision Epoxy Products
You will not find a top NASCAR team in any division performing chassis set-up work without being on either an epoxy or a steel surface floor plate. That is because the engineers in NASCAR are well aware that the many tools used in chassis set-up from scales to caster-camber gauges to alignment tools and every other tool, gauge, laser or gadget in between can not be used properly unless you are working on a perfect surface. Think about it, four scales, under four corners of the car or truck will not give you accurate information unless the four scales are in perfect relation to each other or sitting on a perfect surface. This holds true with all your other set-up tools. In order to achieve results you can trust to be accurate time and time again; you must be doing your chassis set-up work on a perfect surface.
How accurate are our Epoxy Surface Plates ? The Epoxy Surface Plate is
the most accurate Set-Up Floor Plate available for use in the Motorsports
Industry. Precision Epoxy has pioneered the epoxy floor plate revolution
creating a surface so perfect it is now being used extensively in Aerospace
Research Facilities around the country as a test bed to float air bearing
equipped The Steel Surface Plate has been the
standard of the Motorsports Industry for set-up work since that first jig table had its legs removed and was laid on the floor so that a car could be rolled
on and off and the first steel floor plate was born. Since
that time fabricators have been trying to improve on this idea to try and make
the use of a steel plate more reliable. The Steel Plate Mounting Platform is constructed by forming out the desired area and making multiple pours of our Floor Plate Epoxy to level the concrete substrate as needed. Each pour is made at a thickness of ¼ inch and a rate of 6.4 square feet per gallon. The number of pours needed is determined by how far off the concrete substrate is and how much epoxy material it requires to level. The finished epoxy mounting base yields a surface that is level to 0.003 inch or better and will have a compressive strength of 17,500 psi. Once the epoxy mounting platform is completed your steel plate is positioned on top and your ramp skirts are installed. Your new Steel Floor Plate will have accuracy and reliability like never before and will maintain its accuracy without constant adjustments. The cost for a professional installation starts at $20.00 per square foot per ¼ inch pour and for a do-it-yourself installation starting at $15.00 per square foot per ¼ inch pour. Substrate preparation, location of job-site, size of project, additional pours to level substrates more than ¼ inch off, travel and/or freight cost, special equipment needed, unusual factors associated with project, etc all contribute to the pricing of professional applications. The Steel Plate Mounting Platform can obviously be installed as apart of a new steel plate installation project. The Steel Plate Mounting Platform can also be installed as an upgrade to an existing steel surface plate already in use. This simply requires moving the existing steel plate aside, installing the epoxy mounting base and replacing the steel plate to its original location. The steel plate can also be anchored in place as needed by drilling through epoxy mounting base into concrete substrate, installing anchor bolts and/or hardware and securing. This will eliminate thinner steel plates from curling or straighten older plates that may have been twisted or bent out of plane. No one is more committed or has taken surface plates to such an art form as Precision Epoxy. Steel Plate Mounting Platform Installation
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robotic space craft. Here at the Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking Test
Bed Facility located at Georgia Tech’s School of Aerospace Engineering in
Atlanta, Georgia, the epoxy floor plate from Precision Epoxy is a vital
component in the laboratory. The main obstacle hindering progress in this area
has been the difficulty of testing any new rendezvous and docking ideas in a
realistic environment. Simulating weightlessness on earth is not an easy
proposition. Panagiotis Tsiotras, a professor in the School of Aerospace
Engineering, recently received an award from the U.S. Air Force Office for
Scientific Research (AFOSR) via the Defense University Research Instrumentation
Program (DURIP) to construct such a test facility at the Georgia Institute of
Technology. The new test
ARD facility includes a five-degree-of-freedom spacecraft platform free-floating
on a 13 x 14 foot flat epoxy floor plate. The specifications for the floor where
very tight: It should be flat within 0.0005 inches and horizontal within a few
milliradians. Precision Epoxy exceeded these specifications allowing for zero
drift as the spacecraft platform floats on a very thin film of air (about 70 to
80 microns), and is equipped with a large collection of sensors and actuators:
rate gyros, gas thrusters, reaction wheels, control moment gyros, a
magnetometer, a Sun sensor and charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras. The ability
to choose from this diverse collection of sensors and actuators will allow great
flexibility in performing realistic experiments under a variety of conditions as
encountered by a specific application. This new type of facility is becoming
common among United
States Academic Institutions and corporate Aero Space Research Facilities, and it will enable unprecedented, realistic
testing of new rendezvous and docking control algorithms and hardware.
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We developed the Epoxy
Surface Plate because
there was a need for a set-up plate with even greater accuracy and reliability
as the technological aspects of racing evolved. If you are still using or
are still convinced that a steel surface plate is the way to go or your budget
forces you to share the duties of fabrication work and set-up work on the same
steel floor plate, we have good news for you. Precision Epoxy has developed the
Steel Plate Mounting Platform for your floor. The epoxy mounting platform
can be of any size or shape desired and after installation, provides a perfect
floor surface on which your steel plate lies. The steel plate can now be much
thinner, less costly and provide greater accuracy and reliability
because it is supported underneath by 100% of its
surface area. This means you eliminate the need for adjustable jack bolts to
level a steel plate that sits on uneven concrete floors. It also eliminates the
drawbacks and constant manpower to keep a normal steel floor plate level from flexing
or sagging under its own weight.
steel plate can be made up of
several smaller sections rather than one large single piece. The steel will not
warp, sag or flex out of level.
