Most in here know that's bull feces, but still, I thought I'd document the 2 chips that I've gotten in my PEI 4 tile over the three years that it's been installed and in regular use.
Today, my son had an FA20 block in an engine stand and the head off a bolt holding it broke, and it went down hard to the tile floor. Dinged a couple of corners on the block itself....and put a small chip in the tile floor. That's about a 200+# block, and it hit on the flywheel, hard enough to tweak the fortunately shot crankshaft. Take a look at the pics to see the "damage".
The next pics are a very slightly larger chip that occurred when the lift was lowered with a fairly large bolt lying on the floor under the arm. The lift had a 2800# car on it, so we'll assume the weight of that arm was somewhere around 8-900#, as it was the front arm of a front engine car.
You can see that my tile is not thru-color, which I knew when I installed it, but at $0.69/sf on closeout, I didn't mind. Loads of other objects have been dropped on this floor with zero damage. The only other chip, of very similar size and one I previously documented here, occurred when I dropped an 80# magnetic drill to the floor from 8 feet, off an overhead beam that I was drilling.
So 3 small chips in 3 years. I'll take it. Porcelain floors in a shop aren't cheap, but gotdamm they're nice to work on, and they're as tough as it comes.
Today, my son had an FA20 block in an engine stand and the head off a bolt holding it broke, and it went down hard to the tile floor. Dinged a couple of corners on the block itself....and put a small chip in the tile floor. That's about a 200+# block, and it hit on the flywheel, hard enough to tweak the fortunately shot crankshaft. Take a look at the pics to see the "damage".
The next pics are a very slightly larger chip that occurred when the lift was lowered with a fairly large bolt lying on the floor under the arm. The lift had a 2800# car on it, so we'll assume the weight of that arm was somewhere around 8-900#, as it was the front arm of a front engine car.
You can see that my tile is not thru-color, which I knew when I installed it, but at $0.69/sf on closeout, I didn't mind. Loads of other objects have been dropped on this floor with zero damage. The only other chip, of very similar size and one I previously documented here, occurred when I dropped an 80# magnetic drill to the floor from 8 feet, off an overhead beam that I was drilling.
So 3 small chips in 3 years. I'll take it. Porcelain floors in a shop aren't cheap, but gotdamm they're nice to work on, and they're as tough as it comes.
