<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I would be very wary of a riveted solution.<br>A few years ago we had an engineer design a type of L foot attachment for a steel roof on a storage barn. He designs it to use blind stainless steel rivets, and we installed it with his supervision.<br>It didn't survive a single winter here in upstate NY. We had to remove the array, install blocking and normal L feet to secure the array the next summer.<br><br>The rivets tore through the sheet steel and many feet were no longer attached. It also caused a ground fault when conductors were abraded from metal movement.<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Glenn Burt<br>Sent from my 'smart' phone so please excuse grammar and typos.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:solarworks@gmail.com">Kirpal Khalsa</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">\u200e6/\u200e11/\u200e2015 9:14</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">RE-wrenches</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Re: [RE-wrenches] Fastening to light-guage steel framing</span><br><br></div><p dir="ltr">We never got a chance to use them but looked into them numerous times. A product called Rivstud. Essentially a rivet with a stud on top which you can mount the L foot to....worth looking into....especially if it is a big job.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 11, 2015 4:13 AM, "Chris Mason" <<a href="mailto:cometenergysystems@gmail.com">cometenergysystems@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><p dir="ltr">I'm fond of the SnapNRack metal roof base. You can use it with any suitable fastener.<br>
<a href="http://www.snapnrack.com/metal-roof-base-simplified" target="_blank">http://www.snapnrack.com/metal-roof-base-simplified</a></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 10, 2015 9:07 PM, "Davis Terrell" <<a href="mailto:davis@mckernongroup.com" target="_blank">davis@mckernongroup.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;">
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking at a roof mounted PV system on a building with light gauge steel roof frame. Only attachment that looks to be compatible out of the box is the EcoFastenSolar Quickfoot because it uses OMG XHD screws which are intended for
such an application. We have used this before and are comfortable with it, but anyone have any other products they have used successfully? I know no one here wants to give professional engineering advice (and I would not take it as such) but does anyone
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