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Harrison Carpenter (carpenh) - BPL Premium Member
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OK "Thin like water" makes sense... I'm buying into the whole silicone strips idea now. Perhaps I will experiment with the elastic webbing at a different time. :-) |
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Old school Except for lacking a flashlight, the no-electronics system looks like that my Boy Scout troop practiced way back in the day. Survival of the fittest, communing with nature, all that stuff... |
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"Diluted" how? James, when you say "highly diluted," what do you mean? Did you use a specific ratio of silicone:spirits? Or would you recommend eyeballing it? (Like, "make it thinner than olive oil... |
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OK... Alright then. If I am to go with the silicone stripes option, then 1) how wide should the stripes be, and 2) how necessary would it be to also coat my pad's underside? |
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Re: Bear in mind, this is only an idea, not a plan. I knew when I posted it many people would think it's insanity. But I've read/heard many complaints about the silicone-stripes arrangement. It... |
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Yes OK, I think I get it now! And I think I also understand why you say the tethers/webbing lines would need to be 20". As elastic as they are, they can only stretch so much. My pad is 2.5" t... |
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Agreed The proof will be "in the doing." It looks to me like we have the same ideas, really... and I probably haven't been clear about mine. (This might be because I'm not sure of exactl... |
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Hmmmm It occurred to me that sewing the loop into the floor made sense-- even though I always use a groundsheet, the grommet does seem antithetical... I see using an elastic webbing for a sewn-in loop... |
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Grommet/elastic cord on a silnylon floor? I got an idea this morning, when I was thinking of a way to secure my sleeping pad to my tent's silnylon floor: 1) secure a metal grommet into the floor at the tent's midpoint; 2) tie... |
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Disrupting the thread, but... My town's humidity, as of this moment? 20%. Melbourne (according to Weather.com)? 68%. :-) Thanks again. |
All Reader Reviews by Harrison Carpenter
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TarpTent Notch This is more of an initial test report. After sealing my Notch's seams, and doing several test-pitches in my backyard, I took it out into Colorado's Indian Peaks Wilderness Area for an overnig... |
