| Using a professional hand held power drill, you can now easily drill through structural steel beams, making it easy to attach brackets, bolts and other components.
A hand held circular saw with a ferrous metal cutting saw blade can cut through LSB as easily as cutting through timber. Using a carbide tipped hole saw, you can cut holes in LSB's flat web to run services through. This can be done after the beams have been installed so you can pass services through LSB exactly where you need to. You just don't have that flexibility on site with hot rolled structural steel beams. Self-drilling, self-tapping screws are the most versatile fastener for connecting brackets and other components to LSB on site. Teks® screws that are suitable include the Buildex® Teks Hexagon Head no Seal; Buildex Teks Wafer Head; Buildex Super Teks Series 500 Hex Head no Seal; Buildex Wing Teks Countersunk Ribbed Head; and Buildex Countersunk Teks. Blind rivets can also be used to connect brackets to LSB. With a professional pneumatic nail gun, you can also nail timber and other building products to LSB up to 2 mm in gauge. |
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