It seems feasible that delamination in shear would be less than in peel in the same way that glue/tape bonds usually are.
Looks tasty i’d be interested in your shelter and one of your packs if they are going? i do like testing new stuff and i’m in need of a super light shelterI found where rsbtr were hiding their reduced 0.51, so 0.51 it is.
Ordered a bit extra to finish v1 which will hopefully become available cheap cheap if anyone wants a v light shelter. Also bought enough 1.5oz cuben to make another pack or three, will probably make a couple of spares if anyone fancies a pack like
View attachment 24638 View attachment 24639 with a few improvements and more monochrome colour scheme! Should be sub 350g with frame. They are designed to work for what I do, upto half a dozen long weekend/100 mile trails a year on established trails, they'll last several years with that kind of use, but not for the pct//Arctic/bushwhacking
I can't answer your question, but if you need more than 4, @paul does the stick on lineloc3s. They're very good.I'm just making a very small modification to my notch li so I don't really belong in this thread, forgive me my trespass.
BUT I'm going to add some perimeter tie outs for which @Enzo has very kindly given me some suitable weight cuben scraps. A few days ago I saw his suggestion of using D rings which also seems good. I would like to use 12mm D rings but can only find 4 on ebay, I could look harder but read on. I had planned to use 2 tie-outs per panel of the tent, so 8 in total, but now I'm thinking that 1 tie out per panel should suffice (and happily equals the number of available D rings). The panel length from pitchloc to vestibule tie out is 154cm. Do you think 1 perimeter tie out per panel is too much stress? After all, it doesn't take much stress, it's just to stop the bottom edge flapping around and catching wind in high wind. Yet two seems to be the correct number. The sil Notch has two per panel as I remember.
Ok. My sil Notch just has one each panel (4 extra pegs if all used).I think the sil is 2 per panel but the laboriousness point still stands. ok will abandon D rings.
Clare, if you would still like to go with d rings, I use the ones henge hammocks sell on eBay. I use them rather than grosgrain on cuben because I'd prefer to bond than sew onto 0.51oz that rules out grosgrain, and if you use cuben tieout I think a d ring is a sensible precaution against abrasion. YMMV.
Any particular reason that you prefer them to @paul's stick on linelocs that I linked to above? I like the circular cut of the Treadlight ones, and It looks as if you could use them as semi-circles on both sides of the fly.Or there is this simple option?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/312903665860
these perimeter tie outs will form an extremely strong reaction bond with DCF and give you a tie out you can rely on
Any particular reason that you prefer them to @paul's stick on linelocs that I linked to above? I like the circular cut of the Treadlight ones, and It looks as if you could use them as semi-circles on both sides of the fly.
IMO anything that 'melts' Seamgrip is likely to damage the DFC is they're very similar compounds...... Is there any way to ‘melt’ the seam grip off if I want to change it later? Xylene?
But I regret those grey patches now and want to take them off! Waaa! Will try putting xylene on a scrap and see what happensThey look good Clare, agree with Whiteburn, hybrid having DCF on the back I don't think you could melt the glue through that layer.
Keep looking at my 7.5 yds of 0.51.
To make the most of it I'm tempted to use a bit of it to get v1 working better and add 2 more meters and make a 2.7m square 1.5m high mid. Along the lines of an ultamid 4. I wouldn't choose to use 0.51 to make such a big shelter, but it's what I have.