The Shop > Our Shop

Concrete machine bench?

<< < (7/8) > >>

John Hill:
The concrete casting man came around to the house today to look at the job so this project is moving along!  He has gone away to work out a price for me.

If we do go ahead this will be a single casting of about 1 tonne weight and will be on four levelling feet.  Reinforcing will be by steel mesh.

Swarfing:
Have you thought about using vermiculite concrete? it can absorb vibration more than ordinary concrete. Soak it first though and make a slurry of the cement before adding it. My suggestion would be to use it as a bottom layer with ordinary concrete on top.

i used to do specialist flooring may years ago and an alternative to heavy concrete was a resin mixed with crushed tuffa rock and silica sand. This made for a very strong light weight flooring.

Just some ideas?

John Hill:

--- Quote from: Swarfing on July 06, 2011, 06:32:35 PM ---Have you thought about using vermiculite concrete?
--- End quote ---

I think mass is what is required for this job. :scratch:

Swarfing:
John the idea was to us it as a vibration absorption layer, not for the whole thing  :thumbup:

John Hill:

--- Quote from: Swarfing on July 06, 2011, 07:47:46 PM ---John the idea was to us it as a vibration absorption layer, not for the whole thing  :thumbup:

--- End quote ---

Aha! I see what you mean. :thumbup:

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version