Backboard

[laketime]

A job I just bid specified an aluminum backboard for the main panel and ct cabinet. Anybody ever do this before?

 

[cpal]

No!
where is the location?

 

[laketime]

On the outside of a wooden building for a railroad company. Looks like a cleaning station for employees, showers and such

 

[nakulak]

we did some work at a gas plant and they wanted everything mounted on an aluminum backboard - got some 3/16 (I forget the mil gauge size) sheet from a local steel/alum furniture shop

 

[laketime]

I priced out a piece 60"x60" and it was $500. I just don't know why anybody would do that.

 

[ohmhead]

Well thats kinda high for a 60 "x 60" sheet if it was 1/4 thick ?

Do you have a metal fab shop in your town we get our boxes & gutters made at a shop here local and a 48 "x 48'X 24" ' deep box only cost 800 bucks and thats with welded seams and cover with lock and a UL sticker .

ID shop around try a metal fab shop .
MERRY XMAS

 

[MarkyMarkNC]

Hoffman, Austin, and probably all of the enclosure manufacturers should have aluminum backboards that you can buy through your supply house. They are kinda pricey, but should be less than that 60" x 60" you were quoted.