In the telecommunication industry, antennas are commonly installed onto the top of water tanks. Traditionally, Nelson Studs are used for fastening the antenna mounting steel frames to the water tank since penetrations through the tank and damage to the interior lining are no good.
Have you performed any testing with either the blunt tip weld stud or the cordless weld stud to determine temperature/damage to the back side of the attaching steel? I would like if we had an alternative to Nelson for specifying fasteners.
Hi Caitlin,
Each fastener will have different steel thickness requirements to ensure there is no damage to the backside. You can find these thickness requirements in Table 8.1.4-2 on Page 46 for F-BT in the Cordless Stud Fusion Technical Manual here. Additionally, the S-BT works down to a minimum of 6 mm (1/4”) base material thickness with no backside damage and the X-BT works down to 8 mm base material thickness with no backside damage.
Regards,
Dani