Tyre racks are handy to handle your tyre storage. They seem simple to make, with just a few steel tubing welded together. Hence, most customers direct their attention to the price only.
Whenever a cheaper price becomes the only yardstick of a decision, then quality and efficiency will lag far behind.
To select a reliable and trustworthy tyre racks supplier here are 5 tips. No matter if you need tyre racking for car tyres or truck tyres, keep the points in mind so as to avoid unnecessary troubles.
Steel—toughness of tyre racks
If not required especially, the plate code of steel is Q235 or mild steel. They’re commonly used to build furniture, billboards, pallet racks, and tyre racks.
If your potential supplier uses Q235 steel, you’re good to go.
Dimension
Dimensions will reveal the expertise and attitude of your supplier.
Tyre racks are pretty easy to make if you’re quite tolerant with differences in dimensions. More importantly, you should get prepared for racks that can’t stack upon each other, or a twisted rack tower that’s dangerous.
At Eamons Industries, the tolerance of dimensions is limited to ±2mm.
Take our most sold tyre racks for truck tyres for example, the dimension is L2240xW1000xH1350mm. The acceptable dimension should be within the range of
2238mm-2242mm in length
998mm-1002mm in width
1348-1352mm in height
Anything outside the range above is not acceptable at Eamons. We respect the measures of our products, just like we value our customers.
Welding—soul of tyre racks
Welding plays a key role in the quality of all racks, not only because welding determines the toughness of a tyre rack, but because welding is the soul of racks.
For tyre racks with bad welds, they’re not only ugly in look. They also pose a risk to the safety of your workers. They may cause the built tyre rack tower to collapse and hurt your workers.
The best tyre rack must carry full welding around each joining part of tubing.
It’s particularly true with the most popular tyre rack for car tyre storage. All four openings around the sockets have to be fully welded. So the racks won’t break during stacking.
We learnt this valuable lesson in 2014. When we started our own racking business in 2016, full welding became our basic requirement.
Painting
Tyre racks’ painting refers to power coating. The progress is like spraying fine powder over shot-blasted racks, sending them into an oven at around 180 ℃. The melted powder then coats the racks up.
The normal coating should be no less than 50μm in thickness. Anything thinner will reveal the balck shade of steel, from which you can tell that the painting is pretty bad.
Avoid the painting like below.
Use this picture as a standard to inspect the tyre racking you’ve received.
Packaging
Packaging is the least important of all tips, but if you want to receive well-protected tyre racks, ask for palletized packaging and wrap them up with film.
Summary
Tyre racks are not easy to produce as they may seem.
You will have to keep your eyes on tons of details to guarantee they’re beautifully coated, compatible with each other, stackable, nestable and portable.
EAMONS has 10 years of experience in tyre racking. We aspire to provide the best racking for your safety and trust.
Contact us today for a price quote.
