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29/12/2008 at 8:05pm
Location: Wirral
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I repaired a 2 inch L shaped tear in our tent with tenacious tape. You will find it in most outdoor shops. I used the rounded patches on my tent but you can also buy a 2 inch wide strip for longer tears. Tenacious tape is clear and ready glued. you just apply it to the tear and the repair is almost invisible. I put a patch on both the inside and outside of the tear. Our tent came with repair patches but the tenacious tape makes a much bettter job I think.
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29/12/2008 at 10:06pm
Location: swansea
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I 'll second Tenacious tape, I did a roof repair with it and its been perfect, been well tested in our so called summer. Tenacious tape is about £5 a strip and worth every penny. Not worth fiddling with glue tbh, its very easy to use, like sticking on a plaster.
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30/12/2008 at 12:36pm
Location: Hayle Cornwall
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Would certainly go with the others and recommend tenacious tape. We tore the roof seam on our Monty6 right in the corner pulling the pole sleave out at the same time so we had to do a 3 sided repair. We used tenacious tape both inside and out and it has done the job very well considering it is also a stress point.
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30/12/2008 at 2:24pm
Location: staffordshire
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HI
I agree with everyone else tenacious tape we had a rip in the door of the tent repaired it using the tenacious tape, did the job well!!!
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30/12/2008 at 7:15pm
Location: Near the Admirals Head
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Quote: Originally posted by shandy boy on 30/12/2008
Thanks everyone I will try the tenacious tape.
Let us know how it goes, please. Never tried the product, as my wife used to make tents, so tends to sew the repair (in a similar style as Freebird discribed - a piece of material on both sides) and then we re-seal using Fabsil
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30/12/2008 at 8:31pm
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I just patch my old tunnel awning with bits of even older awning using loctite clear adhesive.
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11/1/2009 at 7:54pm
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Thanks everyone 
Just a quick update, fixed my tent this afternoon using Tenacious tape. Marvelous stuff so simple to use, can hardly tell it has been repaired. Thanks for the advice. Will keep the tape in our bag in case of future emergencies.
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