If I were to use CC and vinyl, I'd be following Tom's instructions at http://yostwerks.com/
I know he's only talking about vinyl to vinyl, but his instructions a very clear. I've built one of his kayaks and had no problems. Although I've have no other experience in using CC, I'd personally stick to using H-66. On Thursday, 5 September 2013 07:54:49 UTC+1, Steve Upstill (Swifty) wrote: > > 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 <jer...@n-heptane.com<javascript:>> > 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 hexayurt+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to hexa...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > 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 hexayurt+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to hexayurt@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
