Great Dou! (I love wikis.) I'm just building a few models (from 14cm x 28 cm panels, 3 mm thick, and all shiny) for a computer party here in Tenerife. Let me see if I can stay awake long enough to build all I want to build.
Lucas 2011/7/19 dou <[email protected]> > Great news, Lorin! Let us know how it goes. You must be more skilled than I > am, it took me several hours to bisect, tape, and hinge up half of a > hexayurt by myself. > > Lucas, I had already added the link to the instructions from the H13 page, > but you're right, it's better to inline them at the wiki page. I took a stab > at doing that. Everyone should feel free to contribute to the H13 > instructions I added to > http://www.appropedia.org/Hexayurt_H13#Alternate_design. > > -dou > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Lorin Basche <[email protected]>wrote: > >> So I'm almost done with construction. I chose to connect all the wall >> panels together, and yea the block is a bit large, but nothing >> unmanageable. I can still carry it by myself which is all that matters >> for me =P I finished one of the roof pieces last night by myself in a >> matter of 2 hours in my living room, with really only enough floor >> space for one 4x8 attached to one triangle piece at a time and just >> folded it on itself every time I finished a hinge. Worked like a >> charm. I'm finishing the prefab today and I'll take some pictures when >> I move it outside to see how everything fits, and I'll take more when >> I have my camp mates come over for our test build before the Burn. I >> definitely second andrea's question about tape anchors though. What is >> the best pattern to drape the tape anchors over the yurt in >> combination with a rope halo? >> >> On Jul 18, 11:55 pm, Lucas González <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Documaniac mode = "on" >> > >> > Dou, can I put your instructions on the wiki at appropedia? >> > It would be easier to refer to it, add further details and improvements >> > (Andrea's), and maybe someone will add video (hint, hint). >> > >> > If allowed, I'd have to find the instructions themselves, but that's >> another >> > matter. >> > And of course I don't know when exactly I'd be able to do the >> "wikification" >> > - hopefully soonish. >> > >> > Lucas >> > >> > 2011/7/19 andreas <[email protected]> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > Vinay's post brings up a question for me... I *had* been planning to >> do >> > > up-and-over tape anchors with the folding H13. >> > > How would you do it otherwise? Just a rope halo? Because I'm not >> sure how >> > > that would work on the H13 design. >> > >> > > I'd been planning to do an "x", basically, with tape anchors and then >> do >> > > another "strap" over the peak of the gable. >> > > Happy to hear other input though, as I just kinda made that up. :) >> > >> > > Also, re: the instructions dou wrote up.... on assembly, rather than >> flip >> > > it over, we assembled it with the outside out. Just tape-patched the >> short >> > > side of the two full panels to each other, then pushed them inward to >> make >> > > an a frame, then had one person crawl inside and do a few other >> strategic >> > > tape patches and that made the whole thing solid for us to lift onto >> the >> > > base. >> > > I figured when we do it "for real"... before lifting onto the base >> we'd run >> > > the 6" over to do a full seam down the middle, and also do an X to >> make the >> > > tape anchors. >> > >> > > Thoughts? >> > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > > "hexayurt" group. >> > > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/hQaDyh0UIUoJ. >> > >> > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > [email protected]. >> > > For more options, visit this group at >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "hexayurt" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
