Make your own gear? Talk about it here!
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Charliecres
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by Charliecres Sun Jun 07, 2015 4:48 pm
Inspired by Stu's shower curtain, I cannibalised an old tent to make this end panel for my Silwing. Hopefully it'll keep off the worst of any wind-driven rain on wet, blowy nights. It weighs 40-odd grams but could be a lot lighter in swankier fabric. It goes in the Silwing stuff sac with room to spare.
Bearbonesnorm
Posts: 23945 Joined: Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:53 pmLocation: my own little world
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by Bearbonesnorm Sun Jun 07, 2015 5:23 pm
Good effort ... even colour matched*
*I apologise if it isn't colour matched, to me it does appear to be but that could just be my colour blindness. May the bridges you burn light your way
Charliecres
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by Charliecres Sun Jun 07, 2015 7:16 pm
Ta. It's not a bad match - looks better in the pic than in reality though.
FLV
Posts: 4252 Joined: Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:12 amLocation: Northern Edge of the Peak - Mostly
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by FLV Mon Jun 08, 2015 4:02 pm
Nice. I'm considering making one for my lair now...
JohnClimber
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by JohnClimber Sat Jun 13, 2015 11:02 am
Cracking idea
Just cowboyed one out of my original tarp and a clothes peg for the small end of the silwing came in at 109 grams including it's bag that I found for it.
Anyone got some "swankier" lightweight stuff laying around as I don't want to cut up my siltarp.
Charliecres
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by Charliecres Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:28 pm
Buy a metre or so of silnylon from Point North fabrics for a few quid? That should do it
JohnClimber
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by JohnClimber Sun Jun 14, 2015 6:44 pm
Cheers Charles. Just ordered a couple of meters
JohnClimber
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by JohnClimber Thu Jun 18, 2015 10:14 pm
Cheers Charles.
Just finished off the silnylon "beef curtain" for the small end of my Silwing and it weighs in at exactly 40g.
I'll try it our this long weekend up in Northumberland.
Charliecres
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by Charliecres Fri Jun 19, 2015 8:47 am
Nice one! Not used mine properly yet - the weather's been too nice.
JohnClimber
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by JohnClimber Tue Jun 23, 2015 8:41 pm
Charliecres wrote: Nice one! Not used mine properly yet - the weather's been too nice.
Same here
GregMay
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by GregMay Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:03 pm
Charliecres wrote: Nice one! Not used mine properly yet - the weather's been too nice.
Looks like we must live in a different country then. Been poor show round my way :(
