Channing McCorriston, The Container Guy, will show you how to install Secondary Containment Pans in two different 20’ Open Side Shipping Containers for the purpose of Hazardous Material (HAZMAT) Storage.
This step-by-step container modification will take you along as we install containment pans and vents in two 20ft one-time use (like new) sea containers. We will then repaint and install the vinyl decal to complete the mod.
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Hi I'm Channing McCorriston the container
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guy we've received a customer order for
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two 20-foot new specialty containers as
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hazardous materials storage units also
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known as hazmat after landing a deal on
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national television in 2011 where his
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team pitched their idea of modifying
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shipping containers he went on to start
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his own business
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since then he's completed thousands of
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container modifications for clients in
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every major industry
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now he wants to teach you everything he
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knows about container modifications and
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accessories
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channing mccorriston is the container
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guy
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what we mean by specialty containers is
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it seems to be modified but this comes
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pre-modified this way from the factory
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in china so this specific unit is called
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a four side door 20-foot one-time use
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container so it has four individual
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container doors on the side with posts
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or columns between them the next
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container will give you guys a quick
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peek shortly here it's a full open side
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20 foot so the entire side opens up and
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allows full access you can get you know
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up to 18 foot lift inside of that door
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for every hazardous material storage
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modification there's always a ton of
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questions that we need to ask the
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customer what are they storing that
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affects the material selection of the
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containment pans and potentially the
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coating so can we get away with
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galvanized or galvalume or do we have to
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go to mild steel well that's sandblasted
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then coat it the coating that's
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capable of containment or immersion of
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the product that's
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requiring the secondary containment what
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is the maximum number of liters or u.s
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gallons being stored inside the
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container there's kind of two options
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that jurisdictions require
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one being 110 containment of the total
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volume and
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stored inside the container or 110 of
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the largest drum or 25 of the total
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volume being stored there's
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ventilation requirements because of
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what's being stored inside of here so
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how many air exchanges per hour is
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uh
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does the product need to be stored in
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climate control area so do we need to
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insulate and heat the space then if
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we're having to heat it then potentially
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is it an explosive chemical do we need
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explosion-proof electrical
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explosion-proof heaters that often gets
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very very expensive so your cheapest
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option is to go with a passive
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ventilated non-insulated hazardous
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material storage building but that only
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works if the chemical can freeze so for
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this specific modification it's going to
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be a lube room it's all oils that don't
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freeze so it's just a dry container
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being non-insulated and then additional
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ventilation so we'll be providing
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eight vents in this container four high
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and four low
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the containers will also be painted to
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the customers spec then we'll finish off
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by installing six inch galvalume
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containment pans with painted black
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steel bar grading
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so here's the outside of the container
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i'll just crack one of these doors give
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you guys an idea what they look like
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all the doors have lock boxes on which
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is kind of nice just a single handle
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which gives you lots of leverage nice
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and easy to open
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and
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the opening dimension
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47 and a half inches so just slightly
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under four feet not the best if you have
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a four foot pellet but great if it's a
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42 inch pallet going through the doors
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this here is the full open side 20 foot
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container it's four doors the two center
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doors are hinged to the outside door
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which allows the doors to accordion
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outwards
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[Music]
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so here we're just putting the
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containment pan sections together this
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here is the end portion of the
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containment pans so this will be against
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the end wall of the container or towards
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the container doors so we have the
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corners all welded up it's a good idea
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to perform a leak test either with dye
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or once the entire pans are finished up
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to fill them with water and make sure
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nothing's leaking the bare metal that's
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ground from welding we want to make sure
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we touch that up with a zinc spray
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it's the customer's responsibility to
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gather the sds sheets and often inside
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of them the manufacturer of the
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product being stored inside the
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container will suggest a
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suitable
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material for containment
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and immersion so containment often means
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two weeks of storage without deforming
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the coating or the material that it's
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being stored in immersion meaning that's
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the jug that it pretty much can come in
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from the factory and be stored in there
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for its life so here we have the first
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of our pans all welded up our ridge caps
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are installed and we also have our side
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gussets in the pan as well those stop
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the sides from folding in so where the
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two pans meet it's like an i-beam once
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the two come together where that it
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needs additional support
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we've selected galvalume as the material
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which can contain or stand immersion of
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the lubes really got to ask the customer
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how much material are you putting in
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there and make sure that we have either
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110 containment or 25 containment of the
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total volume or 110
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of the largest cylinder
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this one we've chosen six inches of
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depth that provides us 2 000 liters or
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530 us gallons we'll be able to store
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about 90 percent of that inside the
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container it's often wise to label your
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total capacity
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on the side of your container somewhere
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so the people that are operating and
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using this hazmat building know their
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limit you already own a container you
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just need secondary containment we do
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have the ability to pre-manufacture and
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ship out and deliver what's neat about
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this system is that we can just stack
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the pans
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with the bar grating ship it out to a
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customer that already has a container
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and they can easily
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connect the three pans with the bulkhead
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fittings install the draining healthy
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clip it down
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it's a pretty simple procedure each
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containment pan is compartmentalized so
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if there's a small spill in one area the
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spill will be contained within one
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compartment and enough volume is there
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then it will eventually start spilling
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over from compartment to compartment
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sideways or lengthwise so this is for a
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20-foot shipping container there are
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three 76-inch long pants that will be
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connected together inside the container
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and once it's all welded up we'll be
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installing them in the container with
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bar grading on top
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[Music]
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here we have the three sections of the
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pan laid out on the ground once they're
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in the container we'll connect each
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section
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with a bulkhead fitting so we like the
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banjo brand made in usa
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we can trust the quality of it you got
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to be careful you use the right gasket
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that's suitable for the material that's
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being stored inside the container
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another thing to note they are a
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left-hand thread once we put them in we
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also get a chemical resistant caulking
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just to go over the threads
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as we tighten everything together and
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just add in security
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[Music]
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so the bulkhead fittings here
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slide through your hole
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insert gasket
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left-handed thread
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[Music]
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we pulled the two uh 20-foot hazmat
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units into our shop
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you just watch the bar grading get
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installed they'll just give you a little
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bit of a
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peek at these hilti clips here so these
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are meant for bar grading they hold down
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the marketing there and the head of the
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screw is actually recessed
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below the surface level of the bar
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grating so if you're handling pallets
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in and out of the container you're not
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going to shear the head of the
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self tapper great clips purpose built
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for bar grading the right thing to use
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and they're also removable there's ever
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a spill inside this and
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one of the panel sections or multiple
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need to be cleaned out
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you can unscrew the
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hex head here
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remove the hilti clips move a section of
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bar grading and then the back truck can
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get in here and suck out any of the
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spills and clean up the pans
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so in this container yet we still have
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to install our vents we'll cut the holes
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out before we paint and then install the
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vents afterwards given it's a hazmat
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storage container
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we like to install
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half the vents up high and half down low
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in case some papers are heavier than air
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and some are lighter it's always
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intake and you're exhausting all vapors
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so yeah in here we're gonna have
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four vents high on the
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side wall and then the door side we're
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gonna do four lows so reason we like to
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put them high on this wall is if pallets
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are coming in and they're four or five
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feet tall uh
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no chance of them hitting the vent and
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damaging it so you get them up high out
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of the way on this end and then in the
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door end where the door is always open
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when they're uh moving pallets in and
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out there's no risk of a pallet hitting
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the vent and squashing so here's the
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outside of the container the door side
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so we'll be putting the
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vents it's pretty much as low as we can
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go with them so we'll be putting the
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vents low
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on the doors on this side and then high
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on the other side so here we have them
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marked out
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ready to cut these are already cut out
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and ready to go so uh we'll just be
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taping that off so when we paint we're
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not over spraying on the interior of the
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can
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and give it a shot of paint and then i
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guess yeah we can check back in on this
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container once it's all painted
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[Music]
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the containers are back now from paint
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uh they're done to the collar that the
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customer has specked
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we've also installed the vents so we
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have the lower vents on the door side of
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the container
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and then
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coming around to the back
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we have the four vents installed up high
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so this will provide good cross flow
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passive ventilation
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so let's give a final tour of this can
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we'll crack the doors and swing
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this one here is the full open side so
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it's got the
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two doors that
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hinge and kind of accordion
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here's the inside of the vents here yeah
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they are pretty much flush
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with the inside of the door so as the
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door closes it's not really gonna
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collide with anything that's stored
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inside the container and the vents on
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the back side of this unit here
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they're up high kind of higher than what
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the totes that are being stored inside
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this container final look at the
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containment pans here
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i got the hilt eclipse and bar grading
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we've rounded the edge here just for
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safety so someone doesn't cut or hurt
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themselves
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so here on on both sides of this
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container there's uh there's actually
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hooks here there's supposed to be a rope
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on these doors
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it was missing or potentially the
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factory forgot to put it on so i'll get
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the guys before we ship it out to add
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the rope on the lock rod that connects
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to this hook and that just for safety
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reasons stops this door from catching
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wind and swinging out and potentially
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you know it's a danger they're heavy
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door and it could hurt someone so that's
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that's super important to have that
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there so while we're at it we might as
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well give you a final tour of the four
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side door hazmat unit we do have the
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stock container vents this one had eight
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of them on this one side but these
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things only breathe as much as the size
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of a nickel so they're definitely not
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for hazardous material ventilation you
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want to add these bigger 45 vents
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yeah so just those there you know it
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looks like hey yeah there's a vent there
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but like especially if there's a used
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container those can get gummed up full
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of dirt and they're actually just
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useless anyway so it's more these are
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meant to depressurize the container so
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if you know what heat creates pressure
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in the container it'll relieve that but
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it's not meant to circulate the air
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through the can
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so i trap a couple doors
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yeah there's four doors it's all
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same same deal same containment pads bar
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grading healthy clips so this one again
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ready for service customer can on this
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partition off the walls and we could
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separate the types of chemicals that are
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going in here
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air would still flow underneath the
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containment pounds and i don't think
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they're planning on doing that you know
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if it was an option we could build that
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for the customer and even partition off
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the containment pounds so there's
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different chemicals in different spaces
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when you're closing any container door
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or the cargo doors that have two doors
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you always close your left and then your
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right there's either a lock box or just
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usually a piece of flat bar that
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it's always on the right door and it
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keeps the two closed but as far as your
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lock box is concerned this is the
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factory lock box that would be done in
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china
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we have
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our own lock box that
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it's a bolt-on version but yeah
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obviously when they're done in the
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factory that's the best so with this the
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only accessory that we would sell with
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it would be the uh the block lock so
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it's an
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80 millimeter or two and three eighths
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lock
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so yeah that block lock is the one you
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want it's got the the drop pin shackle
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if you try to use like a regular um
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padlock a lot of times you get you get
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the lock in there and you can actually
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twist and to close the lock so or if you
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get one that's too long if you're able
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to quit twist and close the padlock but
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then you have the lock exposed and it's
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just super simple to cut one of the
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sides so
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proper lock for these lock box is the
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shackle the 80 millimeter shackle log
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[Music]
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we're just doing the finishing touches
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on these containers we're gonna
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put our decal our logo which is our
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stamp of approval
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[Music]
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HAZMAT Secondary Containment Modification in 20' Open Side Shipping Containers
