Hey JR
Glad your cutting is going well. I had similar results cutting mine and
found it quite easy.
Regarding the canvas idea, I'm intrigued. I too saw the amazing
k-hinge/zipper yurt and was impressed. As I'm sure you discovered by
now, the panels are sturdy is some ways and very delicate in others. I
think the thing to watch out for with doing a simple hinge is preventing
the glued-on canvas from ripping off the foil face that it's attached
to. My guess is that the k-hinge was created to address the above
concern. That said, I've pre-taped my walls, and roof pieces (just in
2-panel pairs) for several years and have not ever had any tearing. On
retrospect, this may be because I've kept the pre-connected objects
small and ease to maneuver. In my experience, the slowest part of
building a hexayurt has been the roof, so any innovations that speed up
that process would be beneficial. Having all six of the wall pieces
taped together in advance might create an awkward and potentially
fragile object to move around, and in my opinion with not that much time
savings.
Keep us informed and let us know how it goes. Like I said, I'm looking
for things that will make the roof setup as easy as possible and I think
you may be on a great path for this.
Lucky
Mark Newell
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On 7/25/2010 8:51 AM, jrusoff wrote:
After all the discussion of how messy and hard it is to cut RMax, I
was pleasantly surprised yesterday when I easily cut some with a jig
saw. Not as straight as a table saw, but pretty nice just the same.
I just cut them in my driveway. After each panel I vacumed up the dust
with a shop vac, just like any other sawing operation. No big deal.
I've only done the edges of the walls, no diagonals yet. I'm sure
those will be tougher, mostly in how to support them.
To cut 30 degree edges:
Put the panel down with all the RMax logos up. That's the inside of
your yurt. Mark a straight line 5/8 of an inch in from both short
sides and one long side. Set your jigsaw to 30 degrees. I used a Riobi
oscillating jigsaw, but I suspect any jigsaw with an adjustable cut
angle would work fine. Cut along the lines. I used a fairly coarse
blade and it still produced a smooth cut. The only problem I had was
that the saw shoe on the bottom would tend to bind on the panel. If
you find that the saw resists moving forward, try lifting up a bit to
see if it just sticking to the panel.
My plan is to build an eight foot hexayurt in 3 sections, 2 roof
sections and 1 wall stack. This way the walls all fold into a 4 x8 x 6
inch stack and the 2 roof sections that fold into 2 triangles that
together form anothe 6 inch 4 x 8 stack. I'm hoping to make simple
canvas hinges 6 inches wide on alternating sides of each stack, so
they fold. I'm hoping liquid nails will hold the swath of cloth in
place. I saw a tutorial on building a full folding yurt that used "k
hinges",but those are pretty complicated. I'm hoping a simple cloth
swatch glued in place will work. I've got lots of 6 inch tape too, so
if things seem shaky I can reinforce as necessary.
My plan on the playa is to unfold the 2 roof section and tape them to
each other to make the roof. Then unfold the walls and tape the last
edge together. Then plop on the roof, jiggle things around, and tape
around the roof to walls seem. Then the "up and over" anchors.
JR
On Jul 22, 8:56 pm, Joshua Keroes<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, wanda<[email protected]> wrote:
- folding designs are not great for bman because the tape attachments
do not have the same wind resistance (?)
I don't follow but I think this similar topics have been brought up a few
times this past month alone. Try searching the
archives?http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt
- how necessary is an exhaust fan for the table saw angle-cutting?
I think all table saw exhaust ports are compatible with shop vacs. If you
have/can borrow one, just hook it up. Noisy but effective.
is there any other way to cut those angles?
I used a hand-held circular saw, four carefully positioned saw horses, a
long straightedge, and some clamps. Three things to keep in mind when using
a circular saw:
1. Take some time to find the correct saw offset that goes right down the
middle of the board. Ours was something like 4.85 inches off the median.
Running the saw's sled against a straightedge kept all the cuts smooth.
2. Make sure the halves are well supported when you near the end of the cut.
3. Keep that saw sled flat. If the board starts to bow in the middle of the
cut, stop and adjust the supports.
i have a handful of friends building hexayurts as well who might be
into it.
Work party! Building lots of Hexayurts with lots of people is better than
individual people building individual hexayurts.
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