80/20: Pivot Plate Overview

Hello, and welcome to 80/20's product highlight series. Today we're going to take a look at the pivot plates. This connector allows bars to be positioned at various angles. They're easy to install, require no machining, and are available in both fractional and metric. Now one thing you're going to want to keep in mind with the pivot plate, is that it's a stand alone part, and bolt assemblies will be required to install it. More information on 80/20's bolt assemblies can be found in the 80/20 product catalog.

Now when it comes to installing the pivot plate, the first thing you're going to want to do is preload your hardware. Preloading not only makes it easier to install your plates, but also saves time during assembly. Now to finish up, I'm going to put one last bolt and one last T-nut into this plate. Now it's important when you're using your T-nuts to have pilot projections facing downwards, or away from the plate. Get that preloaded on there, we'll take our bar, slide the plate on.

Now we'll hold that into place, and grab our other bar, and line up the center holes. Once we have those lined up, we'll take our center bolts, one by one, and feed them through. We'll get that one on there with a hex nut, we'll hand-tighten it down, and we'll do the same thing on the back. We'll get a bolt, feed it through, get a hex nut on it and hand-tighten it down as well. Now once you've got those on there, we'll go back to that plate we put on, and tighten it down the rest of the way. Once we've got that secure, the last thing we've got to do is find our desired angle we want. That looks just about right, we'll take our other wrench, and tighten down those center bolts. We'll get that in there for a secure connection.

[CarlosSebastiáMolina]

🎯 Key points for quick navigation:

00:06 *Placas pivotantes angulares*
00:35 *Pre-cargar ahorra tiempo*
01:04 *Alinear barras central*
01:33 *Apriete y ajuste*
01:59 *Conexión segura lograda*

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[iteotwawkiaiff]

Wondering if you have a hinge that functions in this same “form”? Meaning, the two beams connect the same way, with the joint/hinge between the ends rather than the lift off hinges you have that I believe are mounted to the side or top of the beams. Hopefully that makes sense? Basically...I want it to look like what you built here, only I need it to function as a hinge rather Thant tightening bolts to lock in specific position.

[LordPhobos]

Hi, I'm wondering if these pivots exist in metric 20mm size? I couldvonly find them for larger sizes, but I need smaller for my application.
Thanks!

[tylerwilliams]

Do you have a version of this that will only allow the pivot to go in one direction? i.e. instead of the piece with a curves on both corners, only one side is curved so it can pivot in that direction, and not the other. This would allow the pivot to effectively stop at 180deg, which is what I'm looking for. If not, is this something you could make? Thanks

[coreykreutz]

how stiff is that joint once it's tightened? Can it be moved by hand?

[MrJFoster]

Guessing fractional is another name for imperial, which you guys don't like because it suggests a connection to the British ruling once upon a time.