CarBEN EV5 Full Sized Prototype Construction - 5 Seat Electric Car From Scratch

[freebeard]

Cool. I'd love to work in an architect's office. What do you do? I ask because of the 'addition' you put on the garage.

I've had my share of emergency repair that ate the first 4 months of this year. My Lexus (/Toyota) MGR is languishing on the bench.

[NeilBlanchard]

I mainly do CAD work, and field measuring, and the like. I am not a project manager, per se, but it is a small office (5 of us) and so we all do what we can.

[CFECO]

Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard

No, I am still intending to work on CarBEN. We had to do an emergency repair of our main bathroom, and I am working full time in an architectural office. I have to expand my garage, or buy a Quonset hut, so I have room to work.

Do they still make "Quonset Huts" ? The only ones I ever see around here are from the 40's and 50's!

[freebeard]

Quonset huts are deprecated. I did a GIS on https://www.google.com/search?q=us+s...ns+and+garages and scanning the thumbnails, I see brands like ussteel, steelmaster, steelarchbuildings and lots of distributors. The technology is a single sheet of steel—corrugated, then folded, then arched. The result is rigidity that obviates the need for any framing.

My favorite:

http://www.steelmasterusa.com/find-local-buildings/steel-buildings-in-north-carolina/

Harbor Freight has a 10x20ft canopy for $149, recently on sale for $109. In '95 (20yrs ago, yikes!) I got one and replaced the six 6' legs with 10' lengths of Cyclone fence top rail. And tarped the sides. It had more space than a shipping container for less than $200.

I still have half of it (5x20) recovered in corrugated metal as a cover between my trailer and carport. I laid the corrugations lengthwise because it was easy; but it would shed rain water better if the corrugations ran the short way.

[NeilBlanchard]

I was using the term loosely - it would have metal tube arches and heavy duty rubberized fabric cover. Kinda' like this:



Edit: I found something a bit bigger:

14'Wx24'Lx10'H 12.5oz Round Deluxe Shelter

[CFECO]

Yes, I looked at many of those " Steel Arched " buildings, and if I ha the cash to spend, those would be my first choice, for a shop. We are an old Military town, and I see a few still, and worked in a modified Quonset hut for a few years, so the term is endearing to me.

[freebeard]

http://www.theshelterblog.com/curved-roof-barn-in-oregon/

In the 1940s in the Willamette Valley, there were numerous barns built with a Gothic arch. They were made of laminated 1" dimensional lumber. They were just bent and nailed. This is before glue-lam beams.

Maybe this is why I have an affinity for Gothic arches. Plus which, Shelter by Lloyd Kahn was very important to me in the 70s. Now I find that there is a Shelter Blog.

[rmay635703]

Apparently your car has T-shirts

Not selling anything - T-Shirt Forums

[CFECO]

Neil, Perhaps you could build or get something like that shelter with the plastic cover and have a bed liner company come spray bed liner over it. The Urethane ( I think thats what the material is) is Very strong, somewhat flexible, and tougher than nails. Mythbusters proved it tougher than C-4. TV...It has to be true.

[jray3]

Lexus made a working electric car out of cardboard