Hi - I'm putting together a design for a table/equipment mount of sorts for my home's mechanical equipment room. I'm wondering if others have anchored V-slot to the floor and if there was any recommendations. One thought that I had was to use the L-plates, one side on the table leg, the other I'd use Tapcons through to the concrete floor. Any other ideas?
Nah, I'm with you; Tapcons or RedHeads through L-brackets is the quickest and most effective way of fastening it down, particularly semi-permanently. Drilling directly through the V-Slot is perfectly possible, but doesn't seem like a best practice to me in most situations. For more permanence (or belt and braces), VHB tape or epoxy would probably also work if the concrete's clean/new enough.
Looking at brackets, I wonder if using the inside/outside corner bracket would help just a bit more with stability as it anchoring can be a touch further out. I was looking at Unistrut also for this task, but I like OpenBuilds ideas for some future expansion thoughts I had for this equipment rack, of sorts. In unistrut I saw this bracket and kind of wished something existed like it in Openbuils.
Depends what you're doing. Unistrut is significantly stronger and also has some linear motion options, just obviously not as precise as V-Slot. 3/4" square aluminum bar with holes cross-drilled through it- 3/16" centered on one side, 5mm 10mm from the edge on the other, is also an alternative to L-bracket for parallel applications. Gussets work well for perpendicular mounting.
