And my pre playa RV expenses just went up to $6K about eating all profits & it’s gotta go in for ball joints in the morning to bring it up to that fine number. Fine timeing . . .
> On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Lucas González <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Sorry, the roof pieces are _not equilateral_. Just base four feet, height > four feet. Sorry! > > El 18/08/2015 06:03, "Lucas González" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> escribió: > Cardboard model. Or even paper model to start with. But definitely a > cardboard model. > > Six walls, each 4' by 4', can be done as two strips, each made of three > squares, first to second a tight hinge, second to third a loose hinge. These > are 3 panels, each cut in half to give us three squares. As you say, no > problem there. > > Six roof pieces, each an equilateral triangle with a base of 4', from two > panels (each with four cuts) which give you three roof pieces each, plus a > total of 4 "left over" "half roof-piece", right? I wonder if you'd want some > of those half roof-pieces if there's need to do some folding. > > Model just the roof? Number the pieces: R1 to R6, plus abcd for the > half-triangle leftover thingies. Try two different half-roofs, one using > leftovers and one without? Post a picture or two. Allow us to use the picture > in a wikipage which we'd call "folding six-foot" or whatever? This should > help the next million, so thank you. > > El 18/08/2015 05:06, "Rachel Schwartz-Gilbert" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> escribió: > Also, the danger method uses spaces that are 1/2 the width of the panels for > the loose hinges, I am wondering if one of my hinges need to be 1/2 the width > of a panel and the other needs to be a whole width of a panel? Then they can > fold on top of each other? I think that is how that should work... but am > still struggling a little bit with the concept of it all. > > On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 1:47:03 AM UTC-7, Rachel Schwartz-Gilbert wrote: > I am trying to build the folding camp danger model for my yurt this year > (first yurt building project here!) but all of the directions seem to be for > much larger yurts than my 6' one. > > I can easily process the directions for the wall panels but am having a > little bit of trouble conceptualizing how the roof panels will work. As of > now, I have 6 triangles for the roof (3 per each side of the roof - as per > the 6' directions) but camp danger uses 12 smaller triangles (basically > these 6 cut in half and stretched out). Can I just leave my three triangles > per side instead of cutting them in half (and then tight sealing them)? > Cutting them seems to benefit transport for the Danger technique but either > way mine wont fold up like the bigger yurts so I don't see any real benefit > in cutting the triangles in half. Basically, I am trying to figure out if my > hinges will all be loose hinges pre-playa since the "tight hinges" would be > if I cut my current triangles in half. > > I am hoping that question makes sense.... > > Thank you in advance! > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt > <http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt > <http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
