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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Starplate Connectors, wood or PVC struts
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:01:32 -0800



http://www.shelters-to-go.com/

http://hickorytech.net/~jbusby/house.html (fish houses, connectors for quick assembly, disassembly)

http://net-prophet.net/subs/subs/subs4.htm (six-inch square pipe structure)

http://64.233.161.104/custom?q=cache:SngD57wH4MIJ:www.awc.org/technical/GWD2001.pdf+temporary+building+wood+connectors&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
(tremendous amount of data on design, building a wide variety of structures)

http://www.bamboocraft.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-547.html (bamboo or other stick-connectors)

http://www.cardboardschool.co.uk/content/Litreview.pdf 9cardboard and Sonotube structures)

http://64.233.161.104/custom?q=cache:aS5nk6QjfR4J:www.cardboardschool.co.uk/content/Litreview.pdf+temporary+building+wood+connectors&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/wolfe76.html (lattice wall temporary structures---yurts. This is a commercial variety---no great trouble to make your own lattice and tension-band components. Make a model to see hou easy it is)

http://www.shelter-systems.com/lighthouse-manual.html (very good yurt construction manual)

http://www.doingfreedom.com/gen/0600/nca.yurt.html (more on yurt construction---from a commercial, not DIY standpoint, but good pictures)

http://www.itto.or.jp/live/Live_Server/103/tfu.2001.01(08-10).e.pdf (Philipines F-House for emergency, quick-assemble, quick-disassemble housing)

http://www.nf-2000.org/secure/Fair/S1058.htm (use of round, small-diameter poles cut from your woodlot---somewhere on the web, I once copied to a now dead hard-drive, how to make and use a molded plastic connector for bundled very small diameter limbs used as a substitute for a single pole. Still looking)

http://summerville-novascotia.com/PalletShed/ (temporary structures built from cheap or free wooden pallets)

http://www.strombergschickens.com/starplate_building_system/starplate_self_scaf.htm (Stromberg's Starplates---use 2X2, 2X3, 2X4's---control size of geodesic by length of wood elements---up to ten feet each)

http://www.strombergschickens.com/starplate_building_system/starplate_self_scaf.htm (Use Starplate geodesic as removable shoring to make a rectangular structure.)

http://64.233.161.104/custom?q=cache:QUGmxIit-jgJ:www.gardendome.com/q_n_a2.html+starplates&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 (variants on Starplate designk mostly using PVC pipe struts---cheap, but not my favorite material for structure---not as rigid as wood, and harder to attach a cover---attaching a double-membrane cover is way too much trouble and expense.
http://www.alabamahydroponics.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-72.html (A forum query and some links I didn't follow up on starplate structures)

http://www.domegroup.org/archives/DomeHomeDigest0599Feb2000

http://www.strongtie.com (more on stamped somewhat-universal wood-strut connectors)






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