We Modified a 10' Shipping Container Into a Bottle Storage Shack
Follow along as we modify this 10’ shipping container into a Bottle Storage Shack. In this container modification, we will be replacing the wood floor with bar grating, installing strut channels along the wall, putting a partition wall down the middle, installing Big Air 45 vents, and then inserting slotted struts horizontally to hold the bottles in place against the wall.Hope you learn something!
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In this video, we'll be modifying a 10' high cube shipping container into a bottle storage shack.
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So, we'll be removing the wood floor, replacing it with steel bar grating,
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installing strut channels along the wall, a partition wall down the center,
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and then some slotted strut, which is going to allow them to chain up their bottles
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against the strut and store them in a secure manner. Follow along.
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And so these containers here, this is a 10' container, it's not a standard ISO size, it's uh--
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10's usually come bolted together as a 20', and that's how they fit in vessel slots on boats.
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This being a new container, it's pretty easy to remove them. Sometimes on
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used containers, these could be rusted or broke or sheared off so,
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you struggle with it a little bit more but just stick with it you will get it.
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And so I'll just pull out the last few screws here and then show how this panel comes out.
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This is going to be used as a cylinder storage container.
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That's the reason why they don't want any wood or any flammables in this.
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The bar grating in here, that's going to act as our lower vent, and we're going to install higher
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vents up on both sides so the air will come from underneath and above, or if there's any
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gases in here that--if they're lighter or heavier than air, we have options of either exhausting
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out the top or the gases will flow out underneath this container.
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And so, with this bar grating here, because we have a partition wall running down the center,
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we're going to weld in some stiffeners, which is going to allow us to screw that
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partition wall down into something because it's going to be kind of hollow under here.
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And so in here, we have our center supports all welded in,
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and then we've taken some rubberized spray and hit all the tops of the channels because
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that wasn't undercoated when this existing floor was on,
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and now the elements will be landing on there, so just protect that steel a little bit better.
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And next step here is just throw the bar grating in.
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Make sure that you're coming out nice and square,
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so you're not sideways all the way because these things are cut square on both ends.
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We just threw the last one in to see where it'll end up, so it works out quite well
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in the 10' containers that we're able to use three 3' pieces and it's just under 9'.
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So the final step here to putting the flooring in is these Hilti clips. We use them
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with a-- we have to get a longer self-tapping,
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3/8" hex head driven... uh it's a quarter inch self tapping screw so.
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We do like to pre-drill just-- a lot of these, you use two self tappers to get one hole so.
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And this-this footer material here, I think it's...
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There's a 3 or 5 millimeter thick-- a lot thicker than what uh the sidewall corrugation
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which is only 1.6 mil thick. Sometimes the end walls are 2 millimeters. Interesting fact.
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Broke it!
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We're gonna go again with a 15/64s drill bit, and see if we don't break
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off the self-tapper this time. Let's go right beside.
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Nice and snug. So I'll do a couple more here,
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and then I'll let the boys get at it and finish this thing up.
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So, we're going to cut up all the strut for this job. We actually uh,
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we have an insulated 53-foot container in our yard,
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and we converted this to our cutting stations. So we built a table where we can cut our strut,
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and we got our metal cutting chop saw here and our lube, which is super important.
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So these blades here are super expensive to be cutting this uh this strut channel,
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but it does a very quick and easy and fast job of doing it, so make sure you're lubing your blade
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if you're cutting with this. We'll cut-cut these struts, and then get back to the job.
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We're gonna do a little scientific experiment here, and my hypothesis
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is that I can use this Square Tube Mount Bracket instead of our CSM Brackets,
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the black ones, and strut line this whole container for this purpose.
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The reason why I'd like to see if this works is they're a lot cheaper to manufacture;
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it's just one piece instead of two. It's thinner material, but it's strong because it has a gusset
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folded into it, and it's galvanized and cut with nitrogen, so even the cut edge won't rust.
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So yeah, I'm curious whether we can come up with a cheaper solution for the public to
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be able to strut line containers, and then once your cans are strut lined,
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you've got all these options to organize your life using our Modular Interior Systems.
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So with this Square Tube Mount, we think we can kind of pre-install
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the brackets into the strut channel prior to holding it up, and then
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hammer our self-tapping screws through the top, I guess. And because this is a bar grated floor,
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we'll be using longer self tapping screws to go through the bottom.
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So we already have all the spring nuts--all the hardware--dialed in, I'm going to pre-drill these.
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And that there, we're going through a hollow tube. So because it's a hollow tube we're
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not actually drilling right through the roof of the container, so these
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uh thread cutters or self-tappers that we put in here, nothing's penetrating the can.
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That's on there pretty good. We haven't done the bottom yet,
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so once we do that this thing will be in this container tight.
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So on the bottom here: this could have even been done prior to holding this thing up,
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but just to show you where it's going, to give you reference, uh spring nut we're going to aim for…
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We're gonna try to see if we can utilize this here, and then self-tap down through this flat bar
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and have that hold this strut in place without using the CSM brackets, so.
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A downfall to the CSM brackets is that a quarter inch thread cutters on the side here,
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those go through that bottom channel, and then if you look from the outside, you can actually kind
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of see--you can see the bolts, they go through the… they penetrate the envelope of the container.
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We now have the center end wall strut in place,
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and then the one across uh the ceiling, the lengthwise of this…
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And so these partition walls that are meant to go sideways, we're going to turn this
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lengthwise and try to install it now, so I think we've planned everything out,
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it should work well and we'll just get at her.
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And so these kits here have slotted holes
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where they get bolted into the strut channel, so you got to make sure that you put your spring nuts
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in everywhere where those holes are prior to putting this in place.
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With this partition wall kit, we like to use stover nuts. They're pretty sweet,
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they're like a nylock nut but they're just, they don't have the nylon in there. It's actually,
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the distortion of the threads in the nut cut into the bolt and that's what clamps it on there, so as
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you tighten it, it basically damages the threads of the bolt so that she's stuck on there for life.
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We've got the rest of the partition wall all bolted together to the roof strut
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and down the sides, just the floor is a little floppy yet here, so.
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We're using the last chunk of strut as a straight edge all the way down, so we get this nice and
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straight, and then we've already prepared and have that uh angle iron welded down the seam, so now we
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just have long self-tapping screws and throw them in and make sure we hit that angle iron.
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Uh, here's our base bracket that we're gonna try out down at the bottom there. It should hug the
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strut nicely and give us three places to screw down into the wood floor of shipping containers.
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So here is the finished wall. We jump on the other side, that's what we call, I don't know, the
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framed wall. So what we could do here yet uh, if you wanted, say if that was the storage side of a
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office storage combo, this now we can still spray foam insulate this two inch cavity, and then with
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these return folds we have something to screw what we typically use is the reline uh wall panels so.
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Here, just to give you an idea of these partition walls and how they work, we have
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one going crosswise in this container. This is our own container, this is what
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we use in our shop. And then we actually have a wall coming out to separate our
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fuels and inert versus the oxidizers here, so.
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We had this container, we're using the rest of it as a roll tarp door for lay
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down yard storage for our mods, so. Decided, hey this cool place, uh we want to try out our
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kind of prototypes for our partition wall kits and they seem to work great for this.
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Now all that's left to do in this container is install the two top vents
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and the horizontal slotted strut, which will retain the gas cylinder bottles.
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So we have this container all buttoned up now. Partition walls are in with the slotted strut
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on both sides of it. We got the slotted strut on the wall as well, and so these are installed
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with our two hole angle brackets and they're spring nutted on it into the side channels.
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So if it gets to site and they need the strut to be either higher or lower
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to fit shorter or taller bottles they can do that, it's super modular, and then yeah.
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If you come along here, the bottles will be stored
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inside this and they'll be able to ratchet strap, bungee cord, or
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a lot of times a steel chain to hold those in place and stop them from falling-falling.
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And then here is this uh upper vent with the bug screen, so that's a Big Air 45 vent,
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and that is going to exhaust all vapors that are lighter than air, so anything
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that is uh floating up high it's going to get rid of there, and as i said earlier,
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all of the lower vapors will exit out of this container through the metal grated floor.
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So there it is, that's a bottle storage container out of a--out of a 10 footer. If you enjoyed this
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