supermans red kryptonite was nothing but a cheap plot device after all

I got hard, I go home.

and tug tug tug

nearing completion of my second song, something for the old catfight label

fug it's hot.

about 39 here.

[quote=Meatplow;17006282]and tug tug tug

nearing completion of my second song, something for the old catfight label[/quote]
Woot! Let me know when you're done, I'm keen to see.

I've decided to build a home-studio out of shipping containers. Who's good with metal work?

[QUOTE=I_WEAR_RED_PANTS;17006293]fug it's hot.

about 39 here.[/QUOTE]

humidity is ****ing atrocious here

It's nice in the city. About 32, but not too humid.

[QUOTE=Aaron;17006339]Woot! Let me know when you're done, I'm keen to see.

I've decided to build a home-studio out of shipping containers. Who's good with metal work?[/QUOTE]

im good with leatherwork if its any help

Haha, are you?

I think I need an engineer for this project.

no not really.

i could steal you a shipping container with mah astra though

[url]http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zq0znmzgchn[/url] (better quality, less compressed)
[url]http://www.myspace.com/cripplescrossinghighways[/url]

hooray a new song (chunkhs), give me a critique and all that

I want 2, even 3, shipping containers. Or 5.

ill just chuck em in the back of the astra

You'd wanna pad the hell out of the inside of the shipping containers to avoid nasty metallic resonance.

nah we want gr1m as **** metallic sounds

ill engineer it!

the question is:

will you wear a train drivers hat?

The idea is buying two 40-footers [40'x8'x8.2'] and place them side-by-side, weld them together, and then rip out the wall between so its one big box. Then it's a 40'x16' room with 8.2' ceilings. Once that's done I want to separate the end as a tracking room [10x'16'], using the metal that was removed.

I'll put down timber floors, walls and roof, as well as some sound traps [auralex foam for 40% of the roofing]. I think, to save space, it'd be better to reinforce the whole thing externally. Once it's all done I want to redo the entry with a hardwood door. Raise the whole thing up 4' on stilts. Then I'll put in air-con once the wiring is sorted.

End result is a closed space that is all-but soundproof with two internal rooms, 10'x16' and 30'x16', that will be temperature controlled. What you think horseman/MX?

[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/264jdxg.jpg[/IMG]

Tech Specs for a standard 40':
Length: 12.19m
Width: 2.50m
Height: 2.90m
Tare Weight: 4,180kg

it's a brilliant idea

aaron get on msn

If you can do it, and it works, you'll have something pretty cool.

That'll be an expensive undertaking though, and you'd probably need to put the plans through the council and so on.

I've been doing a bit of research. Can pick up the shipping containers for about $3,500 - $4,000 second hand from Port Botany, and it's about $400 to get them shipped within the greater Sydney Metro area. So approximately $8k for the boxes and shipping. But I've seem them a lot cheaper from private sellers trying to make room, some even at $250 each.

Council plans I'm not sure about. You don't need to notify them of having them on sites, but them being modified...

Not so much 'cause of the containers, but because you're building a pretty full-on structure. I doubt they'd have issues with it though, probably just need the plans approved.

Yeah. Will be epic if I get to do it.

make them so they look normal from the outside so no one knows whats in there

You could live in a shipping container like the hacker chick in that X-Files episode.

[QUOTE=Aaron;17007173]The idea is buying two 40-footers [40'x8'x8.2'] and place them side-by-side, weld them together, and then rip out the wall between so its one big box. Then it's a 40'x16' room with 8.2' ceilings. Once that's done I want to separate the end as a tracking room [10x'16'], using the metal that was removed.

I'll put down timber floors, walls and roof, as well as some sound traps [auralex foam for 40% of the roofing]. I think, to save space, it'd be better to reinforce the whole thing externally. Once it's all done I want to redo the entry with a hardwood door. Raise the whole thing up 4' on stilts. Then I'll put in air-con once the wiring is sorted.

End result is a closed space that is all-but soundproof with two internal rooms, 10'x16' and 30'x16', that will be temperature controlled. What you think horseman/MX?

[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/264jdxg.jpg[/IMG]

Tech Specs for a standard 40':
Length: 12.19m
Width: 2.50m
Height: 2.90m
Tare Weight: 4,180kg[/QUOTE]

yeah thatll work...i think maybe you wont need that much reinforcing on the outside, if youre gunna put in a wall inside you can use that to strengthen it and then maybe maybe just a post kinda thing along the seam just for a bit of strength
if youre serious ill have a bit of a look sometime at a plan but you will have to get it properly checked out and stuff

So I'm on the right track? My main concern is the weld joint that'll be running the length of it. Do you think slab or stilts?

i dunno it depends how thick the roof is, but a fair weld should be strong enough. run a beam down the inside underneath the seam will be fairly strong as well.

its gunna be a fair bit of labour oxycutting and welding it together...theres some dollars in that unless you have a heaps nice boilermaker mate or something

I'd recommend brick stilt footings with I-beam joists. That'll be the support structure, the containers will merely sit on it.
Don't rely on that middle weld joint to hold any structural integrity, because it wont.

I think anything you do will need council approval, because it sounds like a pretty serious structure. Plus, if you want to record in something, you'd want to avoid anything with parallel walls, as they can introduce nasty reverberations - but this can easily be avoided with a few angled plywood panels underneath any insulation.
I've got a spare shipping container in my backyard that you can have if you want, but it's currently full of dead refugees - so you'll need to give us a hand to get rid of them if you want it.