All I can say is that my experience of the vinyl-contact cement was very different. I did all the work up front in the expectation of having a years-long solution, only to have my hinges fail: the vinyl simply pulled loose in the heat of the Playa (some places the vinyl just casually lifted as if there was no adhesive there in at all), with a tacky substance on both surfaces that made me wonder how it could have healed at all. Out there, I patched like mad with bifi, and now I'm looking at doing the whole laborious job over again next year. Crap.
So what went wrong? I have three theories: 1) assembly problems, i.e., I put the CC on too thickly, or not thickly enough, or I didn't wait long enough for it to dry, or too long 2) the heat was just too much for it 3) because I laid the vinyl on when the panels were lying on the ground and abutting, actually folding them over the rest of the way put too much tension on the hinge. I did it fairly tight because I wanted some tension in the structure. If anybody has any information that would help me figure out which theory is correct, I'd be enormously grateful. Could others chime in with their experience? If I'm the only one with failed hinges, that pretty much disposes of theory #2. Also, did people tape over the vinyl with aluminum tape? I'm thinking that under theory #2, the shiny stuff would go a long way to keeping the heat down. Thanks, Steve Upstill On Sep 4, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Jeremy Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > I built two 6' folding stretch hexayurts this year. One was a traditional > design with camp danger bifi hinges. The other used contact cement, vinyl, > and velcro. > > The contact cement+vinyl+velcro solution definitely required more work up > front. But the pay off on the playa was huge! It went up and down so much > faster. And, it is already ready to go back up again. There is no per-use > consumeables and nothing that has to be cleaned off before the next use. > > I have a bunch of video and other details on the build process that I hope to > upload 'some day' but the short version is, DO IT! > > - jeremy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
