Jeremy, thank you very much for making that video. It's absolutely exemplary - something people can really learn from, and a nice exploration of The State of the Art (you put it up *yourself* in that length of time... I'm all ears!)
Can I put it up on hexayurt.com? It's just a really beautiful example of Community Documentation. V> -- *Vinay Gupta * * hexay...@gmail.com <hexay...@gmail.com> * *http://re.silience.com* <http://re.silience.com> *Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest* UK Cell : +44 (0)7500 895568 Twitter/Skype/Gtalk: hexayurt "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Jeremy Shaw <jer...@n-heptane.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
