Saturday was spent wiping down the floor with wax & grease remover… The stuff left me with a small burn – ouch!…
Then I spent most of the morning figuring out how I was going to clamp the bracket to the floor. Since I am using 3M panel bonding adhesive, I recalled a review where the guy suggested using magnets. So after unsuccessfully using various welding magnets, off to Harbor Freight I went (not always have your coupons ready). I bought a couple of 150 lb lifting capacity magnets:
By themselves, no problem… I wanted to try to test with something between the magnet and bracket (for the adhesive)… So I played around a little:
You can see part of the difficulty in that it isn’t a flat surface:
Not bad, but NOT strong either…
Then I figured I would cut up the rag to loose some weight:
So after a lunch break, I played with some scrap metal after applying the adhesive between the 2 pieces which was fairly strong:
This is the adhesive gun… They suggest leaving it and removing the tip after it is dried. Should be able to use within 2 weeks after opening.
Settled on the 2 magnets on top. After applying the adhesive: (the holes are from when I removed it from the original floor. There is another hold in the middle for the cable to go through which I will have to drill out).
This is how much I used for those 2 small pieces. Luckily I still have 2 more tubes of adhesive!
Need to leave it clamped for 6 hours and after 24 hours it should be good to go!