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My 25 year old nylon tent was great until I lent it out. It was returned dirty (and probably wet) and I put it away for the winter unknowingly. When I opened it the following year, I tried to kill the odor with soap and water, then lysol and water. Then my troubles started. The fly and floor turned milky white, as the coating lost its bond. Then it started peeling, and continues to do so. Can I save it? Is there something to recoat it with, and is there a way to get the current waterproofing off.
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{S taps Twenty-five years sounds like a great tent. Let her go. Sounds like she is really suffering. Steve, the DsrtTravlr
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> My 25 year old nylon tent was great until I lent it out. It was > returned dirty (and probably wet) and I put it away for the winter > unknowingly. When I opened it the following year, I tried to kill the > odor with soap and water, then lysol and water. Then my troubles > started. The fly and floor turned milky white, as the coating lost its > bond. Then it started peeling, and continues to do so. Can I save it? > Is there something to recoat it with, and is there a way to get the > current waterproofing off.
Treat the job at hand like a house-painting job. Take a soft bristle brush and carefully brush or peel off as much of the old waterproof coating as you can. Rewaterproof the inside of the tent floor and the underside of the tent fly with Kenyon Recoat. Apply a heavy duty spraying of Nikwax Watershed to the outer side of the tent fly. Redo all of the exposed seams with Seam Grip. Give the dried seams a light dusting of talcum powder to remove the tackiness before attempting to fold the tent. All told, the job will take a few hours work spread over as much as a week. But if you’ve done it correctly and the material in the tent is still strong and viable, your tent is now probably more waterproof than when you purchased it. — Cheers, Paul Weiss Backwater Trails: http://www.netaccess.on.ca/~cpweiss/BWT/BWT.html Personal Home Page: http://www.netaccess.on.ca/~cpweiss/ Quote:"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." "Does anal retentive have a hyphen?"
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