I sourced my box walls from a company that supplies panels for refrigerated lorries. They CNC cut panels and window/door cut outs. Total cost of 4 walls for a 4.2mx2.2m box was about $6k. I mounted these in an aluminium frame designed for HVAC plant retrofit installation units made by an...
I started tracking, but stopped when the numbers got big and scary!! I have a log of all the "hardware" but not the "consumables". Given I'm building all the internal structure from home made vacuum formed composites these do add up. I think that using a commercial purchase price as an...
Too early to tell for me. I'm working on the basis that the container lock mount and sockets are designed for direct interface and many more miles of use than mine will ever experience.
I have 8mm rubber on the ladder design subframe under my box. The container lock corner mounts on the box stand proud (low) by 8mm so the hard mounting points are in direct contact metal to metal.
In the UK fully a fully restored 404 doka hardtop, beautifully done, sold for something like 35k in the last 12 months. It had been on the market for around 3 years though. I think it's the kind of thing where there is very little demand at a premium level, but when a collector wants one they...
It is fantastic that you are doing this. From a country with no natural spaces left, where everything, wild included, has been shaped by human intervention, it's great to see some (ironic I know) human intervention to help restore the older natural state. Well done.