First practice putting up your tent! If you arrive at the camp, you will not build your own tent. This is not an embarrassment. Being familiar with your own tent can help you avoid being overwhelmed by emergencies. Improper building of a tent can easily cause damage to the tent.
Try to keep the tent dry and put the tent away! After you finish your outdoor trip, remember to hang the tent up and dry. If the tent is a bit dirty, gently scrub it with cold water! Do not use chemical lotion, or scrub vigorously, which will destroy the waterproof membrane on the surface of the cloth and reduce the waterproof effect of the tent. The moldy tent can damage the water resistance of the tent. In case of mildew, use a sponge to gently scrub the mold.
When camping in the wild:
Choose a flat campsite and remove the protrusions from the camp site as much as possible. This will avoid the discomfort of your back when you sleep, or you can avoid the puncture of the tent.
Prepare additional cloth, the cloth down under the tent, in the tent inside or outside, but on the outside can not only make tents to keep clean, also can avoid the ground stone or branches to cloth tents itself. Don't put your shoes in when you enter the tent. Sunlight intensity of ultraviolet radiation can destroy the tent fabric, if there is no redundant shade can cover the tent camps, it is recommended that you set up pairs will cover the sun, avoid direct sunlight to the tent.
Make sure your tent is well ventilated! Because when we go to sleep at night, the body of the tents of the khan gas and out will increase air humidity, assuming that within four people sleeping in a tent, a night time can be accumulated up to 1 liter of water, if there is no good ventilated sex tents, it must get up in the morning for four sleeping and sleeping MATS are all wet.
Before you take the tent, make sure there's nothing left in it. When the column is removed, it is removed from the center and the ends are removed so that the elastic core of the elastic rope can be maintained. When collecting, do not use the same way to fold inside account and rain cloth, this will speed up the crease part of the fabric damage, it is better to fold in different ways each time.
Remove mildew and prolong life: there are small cross marks on the fabric of musty and/or tent, indicating that the tent is mouldy. Mold can only grow and multiply in a dark, moist, and warm environment (dirt provides nutrients). The fungus actually passes through the polyurethane coating of the tent fabric, then grows between the fabric and the coating, and eventually destroys the fabric. This damage cannot be redeemed, but as immediate action, can prevent mould to grow further, to prevent greater damage if tents started mildewy, will put it up, with warm soapy water and sponge to scrub clean, then dry with a clean sponge. Wash with a half cup of Lysol solution and hot water. Let the solution stay on the surface of the fabric and let it dry. Then, mix a cup of salt, a cup of concentrated lemon juice and hot water, rub the solution into the visible mold and let it dry. In this way, the mold can be prevented from growing and musty, but the mold can't be removed. The damage caused by mildew is not covered by the warranty. These methods are provided only to prolong the life of the tent when it is mildewed.
Maintenance of ledger
The main use of the tent pole is to support the tent and shelter from the rain. Therefore, the rod requires good toughness, high elasticity and should not be broken. The distinction between good and bad is mainly reflected in this.
Normally you can choose aluminum rod, many people choose aluminum rod because subjective think aluminum rod will be lighter than the drill rod, the actual general aluminum rod and similar with the glass rod weight, some even heavier than drill rod, and fiberglass rod actual support features also slightly higher than the ordinary aluminum rod. But he has one of the most important weaknesses of long - term use, and in low temperature is easy to crack, lose the original elasticity, and sometimes break! However, it is important to note that this low temperature will only occur at -20, so the glass pole tent will usually be delivered with an aluminum tube in case of emergency!
The pole is divided into yellow pole and black rod, among which black rod is the most common one, but the quality of the yellow rod is much better and more expensive, and there are many mountain accounts with yellow pole.
Aluminum bar is a variety of different, besides the brand, material, the origin and the thickness of the different specifications, it is difficult to find out! However, most of the common poles are Korean air aluminum rods with a base cost, and this quality aluminum bar also has a fatal defect, which is easy to change.
Aluminum rod quality in general is bad, but really good aluminium pole, general single piece of aluminum rod hands are not easy to bend, it is easy to bend, fine workmanship, the appearance of smooth, compact interface, painted light falls off not easily, have qualitative feeling, and in every section of the rod head with the words engraved with the brand, lightweight, high elasticity, general 4 meters long 8 mm aluminum rod can nest in a circle and constantly! And after a long time of bending after release, can rebound to straight! Only such aluminum rod can reach the level of pole support.
The number of the other pole is also key, in general the more pole is more stable, the performance of resistance to wind and snow collapsing the higher, so the general mountain tents will choose to adopt 5 rod even more to support! While travelling in choosing a tent, at the same price, can choose only two aluminum rod camping tents, and give up three root carbon fiber rod of plateau, but don't know in the wind and hold characteristics on three root carbon fiber rod plateau is one hundred and fifty percent higher than the former, it is a serious mistake.
In general, aluminum rod is strong, why would collapse, I estimate is a set of interfaces is still not fully into began to bend aluminum tube, as a result, local stress too much bending direction.
The repair process of aluminum rod is summarized as follows:
Polish the sharp section of the section so as not to damage the tent cloth and repair the tape.
Rotate the aluminum rod, make the damage place and the account lever bend the direction perpendicular, that is, the general ledger is bent up and down, the above is the maximum force, should be in the right and left.
Use the strongest adhesive tape you can carry around the socket and the break point.
Here are some tips:
When supporting a tent, it is necessary to fasten the bar interface before starting to bend.
It's ok not to watch a tent, and the debris from the aluminum boom is very sharp, and if it goes down like an eye or a throat, it must be very serious.
If possible, try to carry equipment such as tape, spare fastener, etc. If it is to cold dangerous areas, tent must have redundant space, that is, if there is a 4 people team, carry tents should satisfy 6 people space, and ensure that at least can cope with any tent must be damaged, otherwise once the damaged beyond repair, there will always be life threatening.
Tent reception:
Must be equipped with outdoor camping tent is, as you all know, tent fabric mainly have PU coating and silicon coating, and the vast majority of tents line joints are used for bonding waterproof strip, to achieve the goal of waterproof.
Because the tent USES the waterproof tape, then the folding storage, will make the waterproof adhesive strip bending and the pressure, it is easy to cause the rubber strip to fall off.
However, due to the large size of the tent, under normal conditions, it is impossible to suspend the tent for storage. What should we pay attention to when we receive the tent?
1. In addition to cleaning the dust and fixtures after the use of the tent, the water on both sides of the fabric should be wiped away, and then folded and stored after being completely dried. This is very important. If it is not completely dry, it is easy to make the fabric mildew and adhesion. Impact tent service life!
2. After the tent is completely dry and folded, try not to put the other items on the tent, so as to avoid the permanent fatigue caused by the bending of the waterproof tape.
3, regular or irregular tents out dries (avoid) direct sun along while, folding storage, again after rearranging the advantage is that can prevent tent fabric mildew and adhesion, can make tent press bending of waterproof strip won't produce permanent fatigue, extending the service life of the whole tent.
4. After the tent is cleaned, it is not desirable to use the original bag for compression storage.