80/20: Base Plates Overview

Hello, and welcome to 80/20’s product highlight series. Today we’re going to take a look at base plates. These base plates are perfect for mounting casters, leveling feet, and floor mounts to any side, or end of a profile. When mounting to the side of a profile, no machining is required. However, when mounting your baseplate to the end of a profile, your bar is going to need end taps in it.

Now also, regardless of your orientation, your base plate is going to need bolt assemblies. More information on 80/20’s recommended bolt assemblies, and machining services, can be found in the 80/20 product catalog. Now in our example, we are going to install the base plate into the side of the profile, using the open T-slot. To get started we’ll finish off our preloading to the base plate with one last bolt and one last T-nut. Now when you are installing the T-nut, you’re going to want to make sure that the pilot projection is facing downwards, or away from the baseplate.

So once we have the on there, we’ll take our profile. We’ll slide our baseplate right on it. Find the location that we want, and we’ll tighten down the bolts, with our wrench. Now once we have all these tightened down, we have a strong secure connection between our base plate and our mounting profile.