Dry and comfortable in the sleeping bag, you hear the first raindrops hit the rain fly. Lead to sleep. You are woken up when the wind starts, and start pages in your tent, like a flag flapping in the wind shake. That is, if limited to soil moisture. They feel the windward side of the wall of the store and discovered a small tear. Through the crack, a steady stream of water flows along the inner wall and accumulates in the soil. Unless the rain lets up soon, you know youfor a night of cleaning and draining. If your tent is dry, you know, you have to do a repair.

To repair or to repair or clean

Our discussion here is patching a tent, but limited to repairing seams, hooks or frame. Any discussion of the patching material must begin with a discussion on the substance itself, as not all material is worthy of repair. Tent fabric if nylon, cloth or vinyl, are susceptible to a variety of diseases that weaken the tissue to the point where aRepair not be maintained. If you created a field repair with a patch, the tension is the initial crack easily transferred to the tissues around the plot. If the surrounding tissue then tears, has wasted their time trying to repair. Before attempting to review to ensure the train tent in the tissue around the tear to make sure it is not broken.

Surface Preparation

If you find that the substance of his shop is quite good in terms of bringing a patch, is the next stepprepare to be patched to the area. Both nylon and canvas, and vinyl is often reinforced, and tears often leave ragged, frayed edges. Use scissors to cut the frayed area, if necessary, cut the tissue intact until all the frayed edges are gone. Patch sticking, so clean around the damaged area with denatured alcohol to clean the treatment of tissue and dirt. Clean both sides of the fabric. When starting the store vinyl, surface scratches lightlyto increase with adhesive paper fine sand adhesion.

Make the review of

The best material for a patch of fabric that matches your tent, use: a fabric canvas patch, a patch of nylon and nylon for a patch of vinyl chloride. Cut the patch twice longer than the length of the crack, and at least several inches wide on each side of the crack. Cut the patch in an oval, square corners because they tend to peel when the store is flexed. It is important that the patch is big enough.The patches do not mean) on the edge of the sidewalk because the material leans more to the point where a thick (patch) meets the reduced thickness (the fabric. The failure to stop there, make sure the edge the patch is far enough from the damage that the load is reduced sufficiently.

Paste the patch

Cola is the best way to apply a patch, because if you use the glue, the fabric will not fight and does not expire for repair. The best adhesive patch is used to fulfilltissue reliably in all conditions (heat, cold, humidity, packaging, etc..) Rubber cement is often promoted for repairs to the store, but you can avoid it, is not responsible very well under extreme conditions. Contact cement with good performance, but a little stiff. The glue that is recommended by rental companies tent Barge Rubber Cement is made of Quabaug Corporation. It can be purchased at Ace Hardware and most home improvement stores. Rubber cement barge remains flexible in almost all conditions Storeis likely to encounter, and for long periods.

Paint the glue on the back of the patch, and the surrounding area for damage. Give the adhesive solvent for a few seconds to get out of flash, then press the patch to the cloth. Make sure the edges of the patch are well attached. To make sure the patch is applied, the material support and hammer down the pavement with a rubber mallet or a solid with a roll or sheet roll. For best results, review the damage caused byboth sides of the fabric.

Allow the adhesive time to cure before packaging the store for storage too. In making the repair, place some of its supplies of repair in a plastic bag and a bag with your tent, you never know how far from home you need are in the near future to start a patch.

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