Good questions! On (2) the idea is that when you're putting together the hinges, some of them work like regular hinges, and others have a little gap which pulls tight when the unit is assembled. Julie Danger has got excellent videos on this on Youtube.
Vinay On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Edward Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, > > I am putting the finishing touches on my first hexayurt for burning man, > and I have a few questions I'd like some input on. > > > 1. For silver taping the hinges - > 1. It it worth taping the inside of the yurt, or just the outside? > 2. Does the silver tape bend well? i.e. should I put one piece of > silver tape over a hinge, or place two separate pieces of silver tape > side > by side so that the hinge bends between them? > 2. Following the camp danger technique, taping the walls > together<http://www.appropedia.org/Camp_Danger_Hexayurt_Hinge_Technique#Tape_together_walls> > says > I need a gap equal to the thickness of the panels, but doesn't suggest a > means of doing this. Julie's > video<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC-T72tnYc> doesn't > give much clue either, besides saying it is easy. How do you recommend I > create this gap, given that all the panels are taped up at that point? > 3. I imagine that they can get quite bright when reflecting sunlight. > Is this a problem on the playa? Do people do anything about this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://bit.ly/gupta_arc <http://bit.ly/gupta_arc%20>- the Gupta State Failure Management Archive http://bit.ly/gupta_ark - or see it directly on Archive.org http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
