[Regia-NA] getelds

[yolli]

Hmmmm, our vike tent suffers from an 'accident at birth' as well.

Days ago......to be reasonably exact in 1992, the prevailing image was of a
trapezoidal structure ie; 'A' frames with three joining rails or beams
 they are strong ). But we did as the rest of Europe did ( see I like to
spread the blame ) hung the tent fabric on their frame and stretched the
fabric around the rails/beams - and by closing the doors, made quite a tight
fabric tent. When the doors were open, the door half is pulled through the
'A' frame and wrapped back around the frame upright. In this way it stays
put. The way we solved the bellying of the fabric down the side of the tent
was to put a crossbrace of rope on both sides of the tent. This crossbrace
also helps when the tent is 'boothed' and the rain doesn't puddle too much.

Actually, I can dole out the blame even further, I recall seeing tents with
external frames in Denmark in 1985.

Anyway, the trouble is that once you have a 'home', then to get the canvas
altered is a sod. You have to split the fabric down the halfway mark or at a
door end, and add some canvas into the scheme, then add fabric to the doors
at both their vertical ends and their 'hems'. I've found it better to just
to leave it be ( excuses, excuses ) and get a new improved one in due
course. The new add ons always look like after thoughts - but I guess I
shouldn't mind that the thing has 'patches'. Get real Roland, people fixed
things.

Roll.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carolyn Priest-Dorman" <capriest@cs.vassar.edu>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] getelds


Osweald wrote:

>ASK has some interesting info on Viking and getelds (or whatever the plural
>is):
>http://ask-vikingekampgruppe.dk/english17.html

It's nice that they've quantified their scheme so neatly.  That must make
it easy to crank out more of them!

Interesting that their Viking frames don't have the trapezoidal effect of
the originals--side rails and roof beam are all the same length in their
version.  And, like most people, they've made the frame an exoskeleton.  My
husband is convinced it should be an endoskeleton.

Their getelds are cute.  They're sort of like ours, but we don't have the
belled apses, and our eaves look a little different.  Also, ours are much
taller:  10 feet.


Carolyn Priest-Dorman              Þóra Sharptooth
 http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/thora.html

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if
you can't see where it keeps its brain."
                                                         -- J.K. Rowling


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