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What are fish plates?

I've seen a lot of discussion about them but not sure what they are?

Are they simply flat reinforcing plates bolted/welded to chassis etc? Any pics would be most welcomed.

Cheers.

Fish plate is the term for a plate that joins two bars together. We used to use fish plates to join (big) copper bus bar together when I worked making switchboards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishplate

As such there wouldn't be a single use for fish plates on a fourby. I do not know what the most common use would be.

I don't know about welding, I have never seen a fish plate that wasn't bolted but I don't know if that's technically part of the definition.

Fish plates, sometimes referred to as fitch plates, are plates used to attach the subframe rails of a tray or body to a truck chassis.

See pages 7 (text) and 8 (diagrams) of this:

http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/ ... b_06_j.pdf

Athol wrote:Fish plates, sometimes referred to as fitch plates, are plates used to attach the subframe rails of a tray or body to a truck chassis.

See pages 7 (text) and 8 (diagrams) of this:

http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/ ... b_06_j.pdf

Athol comes up with the goods... yet again

They are laser cut steel plates cut to the shape of a fish. Some heavy christians weld them to their chassis to help prove their faith - they are typically seen as more 'hardcore' than a fish sticker.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2040/236 ... 0f10dd.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_plate ??

A fish plate is a Greek pottery vessel used by western, Hellenistic Greeks during the Fourth Century B.C. Although invented in Fifth-Century B.C. Athens, most of the corpus of surviving fish plates originate in South Italy, where Fourth-Century B.C. Greek settlers, called "Italiotes," manufactured them

mmmmm Fish Plate...



I find this a good read for a small vehicle perspective

http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/ ... _sec_2.pdf

chimpboy wrote:Fish plate is the term for a plate that joins two bars together. We used to use fish plates to join (big) copper bus bar together when I worked making switchboards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishplate

As such there wouldn't be a single use for fish plates on a fourby. I do not know what the most common use would be.

I don't know about welding, I have never seen a fish plate that wasn't bolted but I don't know if that's technically part of the definition.

Who did you make Busbars for?

Cheers

Struth wrote:

chimpboy wrote:Fish plate is the term for a plate that joins two bars together. We used to use fish plates to join (big) copper bus bar together when I worked making switchboards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishplate

As such there wouldn't be a single use for fish plates on a fourby. I do not know what the most common use would be.

I don't know about welding, I have never seen a fish plate that wasn't bolted but I don't know if that's technically part of the definition.

Who did you make Busbars for?

Cheers

I worked for a company called Universal Motor Kontrol in Dandenong. It was a while ago now though!

chimpboy wrote:

Struth wrote:

chimpboy wrote:Fish plate is the term for a plate that joins two bars together. We used to use fish plates to join (big) copper bus bar together when I worked making switchboards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishplate

As such there wouldn't be a single use for fish plates on a fourby. I do not know what the most common use would be.

I don't know about welding, I have never seen a fish plate that wasn't bolted but I don't know if that's technically part of the definition.

Who did you make Busbars for?

Cheers

I worked for a company called Universal Motor Kontrol in Dandenong. It was a while ago now though!

I did three years with Klockner Moeller in the early 90s making their B-Bars, did Murrin Murrin and Ashanti Gold Mine boards, both with 6000 amp systems.

Had about a 1 week stint at UMK in the 95/96ish period.

Small world sometimes.

Cheers