{"id":454,"date":"2013-04-19T03:35:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-04-19T03:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T11:35:33","slug":"building-materials-04-19-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/building-materials-04-19-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Materials &#8211; 04-19-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking into how to build and then connect the top floor structures up on the Playa WITHOUT welding. While we may need to weld up there, I really don&#8217;t want to make it a central part of our experience. I would prefer to assemble everything with simple hand tools. With that in mind, I am thinking about using angle iron for the base and standard pipe sizes along with the correct &#8216;fittings&#8217; for everything that attaches to the base.<\/p>\n<p>The basic idea is that we build everything in sections. We connect those sections together using the appropriate fitting. These fittings screw on which make assembly\/disassembly much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Example of fittings options (I love this video for its unabashed marketing hype \ud83d\ude09 Jump to minute 3:00 for the good stuff.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kee Klamp Pipe Railing vs. Fabricated Pipe Railing\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/02GdsQTKBXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Example of steel pipe used for the upper rings and railings (16 gauge may be too thin and we may need to use 14 or even 12)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discountsteel.com\/items\/Electric_Welded_ERW_Round_Steel_Tube.cfm?item_id=201&#038;size_no=61&#038;pieceLength=full&#038;itemComments=&#038;qty=1\" title=\"Steel Pipe\" target=\"_blank\">Steel Pipe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>And just because life is often complicated, we will need to create a base for the second floor. The truck currently has a box structure but that is not strong enough to hold 50 dancing revelers.<\/p>\n<p>Example of angle steel to be used for the base of the second floor to hold the wood floor slats and to reinforce the entire structure<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.discountsteel.com\/items\/A36_Hot_Rolled_Steel_Equal_Leg_Angle.cfm?item_id=183&#038;size_no=5&#038;pieceLength=full&#038;itemComments=&#038;qty=1\" title=\"Angle Steel\" target=\"_blank\">Angle Steel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking into how to build and then connect the top floor structures up on the Playa WITHOUT welding. While we may need to weld up there, I really don&#8217;t want to make it a central part of our experience. I would prefer to assemble everything with simple hand tools. With that in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/building-materials-04-19-13\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-builders","category-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unaverz.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}