Forgive me but this is a pet peeve of mine.
Several members here and in other forums have commented about how unprofessional/inconvenient/stupid is that several manufactures sell tents that are not seam sealed.
Inconvenient I understand, but unprofessional/stupid I do not agree with.
In one forum a comment was "less than honest" and I felt free to translate that into dishonest…
Yet I was the only one to object having folk like Henry Shires (TT) , Ron Moak(SMD) , Glen Siebel (GG), Stephensons, Tin Man (AGG)Ron Bell (MLD) amongst others, called "less than honest".
It has already being pointed out that with silnylon,Epic and several PTFE (Todd-Tex) shelters, to seam seal them you need to set every one up, seal it and then let it dry for at least 24 hours, 48 plus is better. This needs to be done (obviously) indoor. That would need to be a much larger warehouse than the production line itself. And note that I am talking about Chinese wages, too bad if you like your shelter made in the US or UK …
Now imagine what would happen at the factory/s that produce Black Diamond shelters if they indeed employed people to do that.
A production run in China for one of their shelters should be around 300 at a time. (provably 100 for the Bibler versions ?)
How do you set up , seal, let dry that many shelters (indoor) and keep the costs down ?
Somehow I suspect that doing 100 or so tents in Seattle could be also rather expensive, more than most would want to pay.
Franco
