Rubber Coil Pad 6" x 48" — Friction Mat for Steel Coil Racks
Reinforced rubber, 3/8 in thick. Goes under the coil rack so it cannot slide on an aluminum deck. 7.2 lbs.
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About This Product
Aluminum deck, steel coil rack. Two hard, smooth surfaces with almost nothing between them, and a coil that wants to move every time you brake. That is the problem this pad solves. You lay it on the deck first, set the coil rack on top of it, and the rack stops skating.
The stack runs in order: pad down, coil rack on the pad, two beveled 4x4 timbers across the racks to form the cradle, then the coil, then chains and binders. Run one rack for roughly every 10,000 lb of coil weight, and a pad under every rack.
Palletized coils are a separate case. FMCSA calls for a friction mat between the pallet and the deck, and on a plastic pallet you have no choice at all. Wood on aluminum grips well enough that drivers often skip it, but plastic on aluminum slides like ice.
At 7.2 lb this pad is heavier than a plain moulded rubber mat of the same size, because it carries reinforcement inside rather than being a solid slab of rubber.
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Friction mats go under the coil racks, not between the beveled lumber and the coil. A mat squeezed under the coil itself lets it rock instead of sitting flush. A friction mat is not a tiedown: it keeps the racks from sliding, the chains hold the load, and it does not reduce the number of tiedowns FMCSA requires.
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