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Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Se=F1or_Popcorn on July 7, 2007, 1:59 pm
RicodJour wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>> "Seņor Popcorn-Coconut"> wrote
>>>> Sure why not, and my design calls for two of them.
>>>> You, yourself, might even be inspired by it enough to attempt one of your
>>>> own.
>>>> I expect mine to be clean and contemporary, with a good amount of glass
>>>> and balance other materials, like wood, metal and stone, and with the
>>>> finished "containers" hardly showing, and/or while transcending their
>>>> original intent.
>>> Rico will remember this.
>>> A few years ago I bought some of them cheap stamped out metal brackets for
>>> making sawhorses quickly.
>>> I jammmed some 2x4's in em and nailed one across the top but it was real
>>> flimsy.
>>> So I ran a slew of nails through the brackets into the 2x4's hoping to make
>>> them stronger.
>>> Only marginally.
>>> Anyway, I did this and I did that and I did this again, boards, brackets,
>>> screws, nails and bolts were flying until I had a pair of $50 sawhorses.
>>> I went the long way around.
>>> I tried to save a buck but it cost me $50.
>>> shipping container = sawhorse brackets
>>> They both seem cheap upfront, because they are.
>>> And neither are anywhere close to doing the required job.
>> Your example seems to dovetail poorly, but, point taken at any rate, and
>> maybe I'll be doomed to find out for myself. :)
>>
>> But I do know there're many more people and architects experimenting
>> with shipping containers since I first proposed it about 4 years ago.
>> They are "just raw material".
>
> Since _you_ first proposed it?
<rolls eyes> Since I first proposed it for myself here.
> I had instructors in college talking
> about them. This was not recently.
> Are you somewhere on this list?
> http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbayhome.htm
Bops Rico on the head with banana cream pie.
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