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Post by Joey on Feb 22, 2017 7:53:14 GMT 10
A Fishing/Diving tour place in Port Lincoln built their new shop front out of about 6-8 shipping containers. It actually looks really good from the outside. I might drop in one day and see if I can get a copy of their plans. [  |
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Post by mozzie101 on Feb 22, 2017 9:31:00 GMT 10
At the moment we live in between two 20ft containers spaced 4.7 meters apart. Raised floor with insulated roof/ceiling and end walls. Very comfortable for us. We find it better than a caravan.. The biggest thing with a container is to keep water from sitting on the top of them. It tends to pool in the hollows and starts to rust. All our containers (3 ATM) have a roof over them. Good for water collection as well.
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Post by graynomad on Feb 22, 2017 20:36:38 GMT 10
grey; Did you clad directly onto the container or build a frame to clad onto giving you an air gap? There is an air gap, this pic might illustrate  Steel channels welded top and bottom, "sleepers" slid in, wedges driven in to hold the sleeper firm. Air gap maybe 20-30mm, larger of course on the "in" part of the corrugated wall. |
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Post by paranoia on Feb 22, 2017 21:47:57 GMT 10
bear; SW WA is such a wonderful part of the country. Would be a perfect place for a retreat/homestead. We did a fair bit of camping around Margret river/collie when we lived over that way and would occasionally dip further south. Had a mate with land near Denmark too, all good stuff. With enough ventilation I'm sure the green wall wouldn't be a problem.
On a side note, what sort of astro work do you do? Photos or observations?? Bit of a side hobby for me also but not so much I'm considering building an observatory...
Joey; Thanks mate. Looks a beauty! Would love to see it up close. Know if its bolted together or welded?
mozzie; Sounds fantastic. Given the raised floor I'm guessing no slab, how have you fastened them down??
grey; Love your work mate, looks good! Very simple and elegant solution. Do you have any issues with moisture pooling in the lower channel? Have you drilled holes in it?
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Post by graynomad on Feb 22, 2017 22:17:27 GMT 10
grey; Love your work mate, looks good! Very simple and elegant solution. Do you have any issues with moisture pooling in the lower channel? Have you drilled holes in it?
Yes I drilled holes and I do see water dripping from them after rain. Not 100% sure I drilled enough though, maybe I should try to determine if there is any moisture there a day or two later. Also after a while the sleepers warp in different directions which I'm not real happy about but the whole thing is supposed to be "rustic" so I can live with that  It looked real neat at the time though.   |
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Post by paranoia on Feb 22, 2017 22:29:16 GMT 10
mmmm.... Simply georgeous Grey!
Did you treat them with oil or anything?
Bit late now but if you epoxied the ends before sliding into the channel they'd be far less likely to pull up moisture. No solution is perfect I love the simplicity though.
So long as they don't jump out or rot I'd still be happy with them as they'd still do their job. Just how much warping are we talking and if you did it again would you attached them in the middle with bolts or something?
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Post by bear508 on Feb 22, 2017 22:35:00 GMT 10
Hey Paranoia,
The SW is amazing. I hope to find land within 6 months or so and to be living on it full time in a year or so.
Still learning the astro stuff. Would like to get into the photography side of things as well as observation.
Are you in WA? If you are, there is the Astrofest at Curtin Uni on March 12th. It is a good night
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Post by paranoia on Feb 22, 2017 22:54:24 GMT 10
Hey Paranoia, The SW is amazing. I hope to find land within 6 months or so and to be living on it full time in a year or so. Still learning the astro stuff. Would like to get into the photography side of things as well as observation. Are you in WA? If you are, there is the Astrofest at Curtin Uni on March 12th. It is a good night I moved to WA in 2006 for work and left in 2013. Overtime was drying up and I couldn't really afford any acres within a reasonable distance (had a place in Baldivis Central) so I sold up and bought a small acreage with a house south of Adelaide. I grew up here and land is really cheap so the move made a lot of sense.
On the astro side I've got a Skywatcher black diamond 180mm Mak-Cass on vixen equatorial and an orion 80mm carbon fibre APO on a simple pan/tilt. Have been playing with photos through eyepieces (Baader Hyperion eye pieces with Nikon adaptor) and straight SLR on focuser for a while and some telephoto also (have a sigma 150-500mm lens). Have dreamed of a large Dobsonian for years but haven't got the cash now I'm finally away from the light pollution... Can be a deep rabbit hole when you start to take photos, beware!
Never been to any clubs or events but I used to spend a lot of time on iceinspace - www.iceinspace.com.au/ Good people over there.
Good luck with the land hunt mate.
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Post by mozzie101 on Feb 23, 2017 7:55:17 GMT 10
bear; SW WA is such a wonderful part of the country. Would be a perfect place for a retreat/homestead. We did a fair bit of camping around Margret river/collie when we lived over that way and would occasionally dip further south. Had a mate with land near Denmark too, all good stuff. With enough ventilation I'm sure the green wall wouldn't be a problem.
On a side note, what sort of astro work do you do? Photos or observations?? Bit of a side hobby for me also but not so much I'm considering building an observatory...
Joey; Thanks mate. Looks a beauty! Would love to see it up close. Know if its bolted together or welded?
mozzie; Sounds fantastic. Given the raised floor I'm guessing no slab, how have you fastened them down??
grey; Love your work mate, looks good! Very simple and elegant solution. Do you have any issues with moisture pooling in the lower channel? Have you drilled holes in it?
I made it like you would with an out door deck. Gal pipes concreted into the ground. Treated joists and treated 20mm form ply for the floor. Worked well for us. |
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Post by Joey on Feb 23, 2017 8:00:06 GMT 10
Dunno, just grabbed that off google
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Post by graynomad on Feb 23, 2017 21:59:58 GMT 10
mmmm.... Simply georgeous Grey! Did you treat them with oil or anything? Bit late now but if you epoxied the ends before sliding into the channel they'd be far less likely to pull up moisture. No solution is perfect I love the simplicity though. So long as they don't jump out or rot I'd still be happy with them as they'd still do their job. Just how much warping are we talking and if you did it again would you attached them in the middle with bolts or something? Worst case is maybe 1" difference between neighbouring planks, where one warped in and the other out. I did originally plan to use 3 or 4 horizontal plates and coach screw the planks to them, dunno why I changed my mind except maybe that was just too much work. We did plan to spray with linseed oil, once again too much work at the time but that can be done any time I suppose. Another thing is that there is a lot of shrinkage, expect 3% if I remember correctly. Doesn't sound like much but it adds up a lot over a few meters. I've had to insert narrow planks in the gaps and will do more soon as I'm sure the wood has settled now. The walls that are not part of a container have horizontal planks, for example  These shrank about 30mm in just a few weeks.  When I made the wall the plank was flush with the steel beam. In our case none of this really matters, but don't plan on having a hermetic seal |
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Post by bear508 on Feb 23, 2017 22:43:17 GMT 10
Hey Paranoia,
Sounds like you have quite a nice set up astro wise. Mine is a Meade Schmidt Cassegrain LXD-55 8" diameter. Meade tripod and mount. Still learning the alignment side of things. Have manually found Jupiter and seen the red spot with it from my backyard in Perth!! Should be awesome out on my bush block once I find it. I actually just came in from watch the ISS fly over!! Was pretty cool. have seen 2 space shuttles fly over too. I agree with you a nice big dobsonian would be fantastic
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Post by spatial on Feb 24, 2017 10:48:26 GMT 10
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Post by graynomad on Mar 1, 2017 12:14:05 GMT 10
Hey Paranoia, Sounds like you have quite a nice set up astro wise. Mine is a Meade Schmidt Cassegrain LXD-55 8" diameter. Meade tripod and mount. Still learning the alignment side of things. Have manually found Jupiter and seen the red spot with it from my backyard in Perth!! Should be awesome out on my bush block once I find it. I actually just came in from watch the ISS fly over!! Was pretty cool. have seen 2 space shuttles fly over too. I agree with you a nice big dobsonian would be fantastic I'd love to get back into astronomy, maybe one day. Those Meades seem to be a good starting point, and nice and portable as well. |
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Post by doomsdayprepper4570 on Mar 25, 2017 7:04:01 GMT 10
I have plans for 8 x 40 foot double story shipping container house. C-purlins and tophat roof on top of the structure mounted on adjustable hot dipped gal legs.
You are best to use steel floored containers as the wooden floored ones do have a lot of chemical exposure and contamination.
Once you have the containers mounted and welded in position the addition of windows and doors will stop condensation issues and will ventilate
the structure the same as any house. For me the big bonus is termite proofing!
You can paint the outsides or insulate and screw corry to the building for a more "acceptable" look.
Dunno if I will get it done before I am buggered, lol.
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