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I eagerly opened this thread hoping for some advice on how to break wind at night without the neighbours hearing.

Consider me dissapointed...

Quote: Originally posted by rexgrant on 29/8/2008This is what you need if it happens to you again

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Clingons
Regards
Rex.

Quote: Originally posted by rombacca on 29/8/2008

I eagerly opened this thread hoping for some advice on how to break wind at night without the neighbours hearing.

Consider me dissapointed...

Thanks for that Rex,

We have returned to camping after a break (due to children) and I assumed it was me (used to non synthetic guys in the distant past which were affected by wet and dry etc.) due to it being just two guys going, the others being sound. I like the idea of the clingons as an emergency measure. I was able to easily fix the guys back due to the way they came off and they did not have any effect on the rest of the tent.

You are quite right of course we were experiencing extreme weather for the time of year, more like their usual October/November weather, and the tent is not designed to take such a prolonged bashing. The thing that amazed me was how stable it was without the guys with us only finding out they had gone by looking, there being no difference in tent movement before or after they had gone.

Once again thank you for taking the trouble to reply with some very valuable information.

Cheers

Quote: Originally posted by Sam Coleridge on 29/8/2008

Quote: Originally posted by rexgrant on 29/8/2008This is what you need if it happens to you again ClingonsRegards

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Rex.

Rex, any mileage in adding extra guys in the centre of overly flappy tent panels ?

... though the problem of course it that you can't have guys inside the tent if the wind direction changes.

I'm thinking of it mainly to stop the fabric pushing on the table on one side of my tent, and the larder unit on the other. Otherwise, apart from putting everything in the middle of the tent, my only option is to attach foam pipe lagging to the edges of things.

Quote: Originally posted by Sam Coleridge on 28/8/2008

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My Khyam is relatively under-guyed at the back - to the point of bagginess and the bedroom was a refuge ... it was the corner knee joint facing the wind that broke first.

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excellent diagram :)

just checking as in 'is it plugged in' .. did you have the bedroom joints the right way round ??

i am sure you did and apologies for suggesting you might not have...  but it has been known

looking for the posts about it i am reminded that you know about stresses and strains so it is a daft question!  sorry!

and anyway you said it was a corner knee joint that went first.

i'll get me coat.

there but for fortune

we swore our tented moved a couple of inches at least, last time we camped.

The joints seem a bit fickle as ours have been pushed all ways and survived (crossing all fingers and toes tempting fate!).

more pics of our tent here. They were mostly put up to show my son what the tent he was borrowing looked like!

ps, i am not surprised you got disheartened :(

I got thrown out of my own tent for breaking wind once.

The last laugh is the person who threw me out has now bought my old tent!!