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03/8/2010 at 12:17pm
Location: Hampshire
Outfit: Jack Wolfskin Tundra 3RT & Frame Tent
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Hi all new member here, have reviewed my other tent but wanted to share this little old Polish cotton frame tent with you:
It's a Polnam - the label says "Czestachowa Garibaldiego 3" but when you google this it turns out to be an address area of the town of Czestachowa. There's another label underneath with an icon of the number "1" inside a rounded off triangle.
My brother just bought it on ebay on a whim, that we can fix and use it. He's left it with me to pitch, assess and decide what to do with it.
It's heavy cotton rather than bell tent type canvas. Feels a little heavier than Outwell "lakes" polycotton but being probably, 25 years older or more, I can't see it being poly anything
It's in very good overall condition, with a tiny little hole, low down on the sidewall and a hole in the front corner.
The roof's faded and has a small repair, the mesh window plastic covers are cracked and there's no system to cover them to keep the light out.
It's very sturdy but has unusual adjustable thick aluminium poles and in theory can be adjusted for width and height, although the canvas seems shaped to the smallest settings and I didn't want to tear it by forcing it.
Here's a few more pics:
Overview:
Inner pitched:
So having searched around UKCS and read a lot of posts about cotton/canvas/polycotton/frame tents/old tents etc I have so far done the following things:
1. Soaked it with the hose and allowed to dry:
It beads water in places (high up on the sides) and goes dark in other places (low down on the sides and on the front door.
Guessing the beading indicates it's been treated or reproofed? but the darkening indicates wetting through and proofing reduced due to being touched a lot in use?
As you see in the pics we have no grass so had to weight it down rather than stake it when it was wet I moved the weights in to try and pull and stretch it down a little bit.
2. Wet it again the next day and went inside, no leaks! yay! But the big roof panels bowl up and hold a lot of water, it doesnt come through but to clear it I had to push up from inside and obviously it leaked all down my arm as I was pushing these ponds off the roof.
I guess the frame is not right? roof not tight enough? Apex not high enough? leg angles wrong? (splayed slightly to follow the seams) or is it just not tight enough without the stakes?
SO what now.
I like this as a test bed project, we can always use it as a dayroom or awning or chuck our pop ups in it, if it turns out it's not campable but I really like it's retro eastern block anticool vibe and so does my bruv and for £17.50 each into it we could even use it as a pattern to remake it in new materials or test out proofing products on it it.
Hope you like it any advice or info really very welcome. this is a great site and I hope to chat to lots of you in the future.
Best regards,
Davey
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