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[bradmacmt]

I’m pretty excited about this tent. IMO, the best solo, freestanding, DW tent design I’ve seen. I will definitely be an owner when a solid interior is available. And who knows, I might jump on a DCF version if available too (or instead of).

[Dan @ Durston Gear]

Thanks Brad. I’m really excited with how it turned out. We’re seeing really good results with it.

We are expecting to have the solid interior for the April batch. We’ll add that as an option to the website once it is confirmed. A DCF version will hopefully happen too, but that is further off.

[jscott]

adding the two hiking poles in challenging conditions seems to have made a good amount of difference in terms of stability with this tent. That’s a good feature!  I try not to go out in bad weather, but bad weather has a way of finding me from time to time.

“born under a bad sign;

I’ve been down since I began to crawl.

If it wasn’t for bad weather

I wouldn’t have no weather at all”.

[Dave R]

Now that I’ve set it up a few times I ended up with a few carbon fiber splinters from the pole sections. It was from the raw edge. I know the poles are from Easton so not a ding on Dan necessarily. I have multiple CF photo tripods but no CF tent poles til the X Dome. Never had this issue but tripod legs are capped or butted into a metal piece so no exposed end. So just a heads up when your hands are near the pole segment ends! I’m going to do some light sanding on the offending pole end and see if that prevents any more. My son used to work in a CF fabrication shop and said it’s not uncommon to have splintering on ends like that.

[JCH]

Maybe dip that end in some polyurethane to seal it up?  Or carefully paint a very thin layer of epoxy on the cut edge and up the outside 1/4”?

[Justin W]

I like how this tent is using a higher tenacity polyester.  I was hoping these would come to the market sometime and sooner than later.

Awhile back I was talking to somebody from Teijin and asked them if they had any plans on coating their high tenacity polyester fabrics with silicone, told them that it would be a great marriage, and that many people in the light and UL backpacking community would probably be highly interested in such a fabric.

(The polyester they’ve developed has an almost 1.6 x higher tensile strength than the regular formulation, which means it starts off on a better footing than nylon 6, and to a closer footing with nylon 6.6).  They said that they had some interest in that area, and had talked about trying this.

There are other corporations that have developed other high tenacity polyesters as well.  I’m just glad that someone is using one of them.

[Dan @ Durston Gear]

“I ended up with a few carbon fiber splinters from the pole sections. It was from the raw edge”
Sorry about this. I expect this started from when the sections were cut (e.g not perfectly cut) and then the splinter can grow from there if the edge catches. If you send us an email, we can help out with replacement sections.

“I like how this tent is using a higher tenacity polyester.”
Thanks. It is pretty neat. Pretty nice to drop roughly 20% in weight off the fabric while keeping the strength about the same as our other fabric.

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