How can a permanent patch Torn curtain
Dry and comfortable in a sleeping bag, you hear the first drops of rain hit the fly. Go back to sleep. You wake up when the wind increases, and the walls of your tent starts to move like a flag in the wind. Then you notice the soil moist. Believe that the windward side of the wall tent and discovered a small tear. Between the tears, a steady stream of water that collects along the inner wall and the soil. Unless the rain soon let you know that you are in aNight combing and spinning. When the curtain to dry, you know, you need to do a repair.
To repair or not repair
Our discussion here is limited to the correction of a tent, but as the repair of seals, washers, or frames. Any discussion of patches of fabric should begin a discussion on the substance itself, it's worth, because all the tissue repair. Tent, or nylon, canvas or vinyl, is sensitive to a variety of diseases that weaken the fabric to the point where a repairnot. If you have a repair area with a patch, the tension that caused the original failure is simply to transfer the tissue around the patch. If the surrounding tissue and tears, you've wasted your time to repair. Before trying to patch a tent to ensure train to the tissue around the break to make sure that does not break.
Surface Preparation
If you find that your tent is in good enough condition to maintain a patch, is the next step,Prepare the area to be patched. Nylon fabric, canvas and vinyl is sometimes reinforced with fibers, tears and frayed often leave jagged edges. Use scissors to cut the frayed area, if necessary, cut the fabric until all the edges are left frayed. You can add the patch, in order to clean around the damaged area with denatured alcohol to any treatment of hazardous waste and dirt. Clean both sides of the fabric. When the vinyl tent, scratching the surface around the break with a little 'fine sandpaper to improve adhesion of the adhesive.
Making the patch
The best material for a patch of fabric that adjusts to use the tent, a patch to the cloth fabric, nylon plate nylon, and a patch for vinyl chloride. Cut the patch two times longer than the length of the crack, and at least a few inches wide on each side of the slit. Cut the patch in an oval shape, as the square corners tend to peel when the tent is flexed. It 'important that the patch is big enough. PatchesThat do not, on the edge of the plate, because the substance at a point where a great thickness (stamp) take less thick (cloth) folded up. To avoid mistakes, to make sure that the edge of the pavement damage is sufficient that the load is reduced sufficiently.
Add patch
Glue is the best way to fix a patch, because if you use the glue, the fabric does not fray and does not expire for the repair. The best glue to repair the defect is to keep one, the substancereliable in all conditions (heat, cold, humidity, packaging, etc..) latex cement is often presented to the attempts to repair, but you can avoid it, do not adhere very well in extreme conditions. Contact cement works well, but can be a bit 'steep. The glue from the owners of the tent is recommended as Barge Rubber Cement, made by Quabaug Company. Can be purchased at Ace Hardware and most home improvement stores. Barge Rubber Cement is in almost all conditions you can demonstrate the flexibilitySession and for long periods.
Paint the glue on the back of the plate and the area of injury. Enter the adhesive solvent for a few seconds in flash, and then press the patch onto the fabric. Be sure that the edges of the patch are blocked. To ensure that the patch is connected to the fabric from under the hammer and punch to the solid support with a rubber mallet or a rolling pin or material with a roll of veneer. For best results, patch the damage on both sides of theTissues.
Wait for the glue to cure before packing the tent for storage too. While performing the repair, the site of part of the repair supplies packaged in a plastic bag and your tent, you never know, because you will need to tear the house the next time a patch.
