Else hurricane track3/19/2023 Elongating the holes will only work if all the panel lips on both sides are sheared off, which I actually considered as one option, but doing so, if I ever have a storm that hits and cause damages, those panels will cause the insurance coverage to be voided because it no longer meet hurricane codes.Ĭlick to expand.There are storm panel header/track design that is "acceptable" for hurricane protection. I can make the holes elongated, but all it will allow me to do is to install one panel and no more, because if one panel is installed off laterally, the next one that overlaps part of it will have to follow that same lateral offset, and the more panel you put on, it will have to creep. Thin because if thick it will cause the panels to protrude, and big because you don't want the nuts to be close to the diameter of the holes you are tightening down.Įlongated the holes would not work at all because if panel holes are elongated and made to fit over stud spacings that are a little off, which is the case I have - someone installed 6" stud spacing tracks on a system fitted with panels with 6.25" holes, it's a no go. Using nuts on the other side to tighten them down would work if it's really thin and big nuts. Here are some pictures of a premade studded angle.Ĭlick to expand.The truss head bolt would work except the bolt will spin as you tighten the wing nuts over the panels. I am going to buy my own 3x3 aluminum angle, and attach the studs at the spacing of 6.25". I need to make a studded angle to fit my existing headers and panels. Which leads to why I need to make my own bottom studded angles. This is probably done to make it virtually impossible to buy headers to fit existing panels, or buy panels to fit existing angles, or buy angles to fit both. Some thinks why not just enlarge the hole sizes? No you can't, because the storm panels overlap each other, so any lateral shift cause a larger hole will shift the panel and mess up the overlapping. If your panels have 6" holes, it will not fit onto a studded track of 6.5" spacing. What's more important, the studs are spaced either at 6" on center, 6.25" on center or 6.5" on center. The bottom L angle with the studs, yes, those change too, sometimes they are 2x2 angles, sometimes 3x3, sometimes 2x3 or 3x2. Obviously, a 2.25" corrugated panel will not slide under and into a 2" h header. For some strange reasons, it is VERY difficult to find matching parts to these panels and tracks because they kept changing the dimensions.
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