Apparently today is 'someday'. I have uploaded a brief video I shot on the playa showing off my vinyl+velcro hexayurt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1MiKiIaf9Q Although not mentioned in the video, I completely forgot to attach the velcro on the roof peak. So the top of the roof isn't being held together by anything at all. But, despite that it was still very sturdy. I never felt like it was in any danger of going anywhere. I think that is because I beveled the edges and strapped it down tight with the racket straps. The straps+bevel cause the thing to stay up nicely via compression. I feel like there is no chance that the velcro would come undone by itself. It required significant force to undo it on purpose in the direction it is designed to come apart. All the tension put on it by the yurt is trying to pull it apart sideways, which is much harder. I used 6" wide strips of vinyl with copious amounts of contact cement. The cement did soften a bit. I'll bring barge glue this time in case I have to do any touchups. I have other videos of the construction process somewhere. Perhaps they will also appear on another someday. - jeremy On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jer...@n-heptane.com> 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+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/d/optout.
