I've noticed what I take to be aluminum oxide forming here and there (mostly on non-yurt aluminum surfaces) which I casually attribute to alkaline playa dust.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:15 AM, hal muskat <[email protected]> wrote: > Most interested in feedback on mold issue. > > Robert, have you had it tested? > > > On Sep 22, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Robert Atkins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:05:15 AM UTC+2, Vinay Gupta wrote: > >> >> How was your burn? >> >> Did we learn anything interesting and worth documenting about hexayurts, >> coolers etc? >> > > It was the fourth year (I think? Possibly fifth?) for my semi-folding 6' > stretch. The wall and roof hinges are still good despite no protective foil > tape, but a big strip of the flashing I made around the door flew away at > one point. It acquired a few dings in storage, but they were all patched > easily enough with bidi. > > My only real concern is what I think is mould. There are little grainy > black patches all over the foil, with "matching" black patches where those > would fold against the adjacent wall during storage. I'm not sure how this > happened though—it's been stored in a garage in Las Vegas all its life so > far, which is a pretty dry climate. Previous to this year the only time > it's been anywhere near moisture was the sixteen spots of rain we got > on-Playa in 2012. A little wipe at one of the black patches with isopropyl > alcohol left a black sooty smudge on the kitchen paper, but so did a wipe > over a clean patch of foil, so that's kind of inconclusive. > > No respiratory complaints evident from myself or my yurtmate, should I be > worried? Is it worth trying hard to remove next year? With what? > > Cheers, Robert. > >> > -- > 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/d/optout. > > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
