Hello,
I’m wondering if anyone ever tried to convert a double wall tent into a single wall design.
It may seem like a weird project, but as I keep looking for the existing ultralight 4-man tent options (I think I’ve listed most of them, see below), and as I’m considering making my own Caffin’s style tunnel 4p tent, this idea occured to me when I found a somewhat lightweight, somewhat cheap Aliexpress option : could I hack this tent to make it single-wall, and therefore lighter ?
Of course, I’d need to think a lot about that, and that’d imply to change the fly design to add pole sleeves and find a smart way to connect the inner tent to it, etc…
The pros :
- Easier than making a tent from scratch
- Relatively cheap option
The cons :
- Would still be a lot of trouble thinking and modifying the tent
- Risk of definitely ruining a new tent
- Unsure about the potential weight gain
- Very uncertain about how it’d handle condensation
Has any of you done this before ?
Is it complete non-sense ?
Any suggestion on what (not) to do ?
Thanks !
