Hi Guys
I sewed up a post curing tent. It's a round sausage made out of vinyl using a 4"
muffin fan to keep it inflated and a zipper to get to your stuff. I forget the
exact dimensions but the aluminium tubes ate 10 feet long so it's close to
that.BTW a YKK Zipper leaks very little pressure compared to Velcro. Inside I
have a 1500 watt articulating heater and a small fan to keep the air inside from
stratifying. I used a pyrometer or two from my hot air balloons to keep track
of the temps as well as a digital probe style. We just drape some bubble wrap
over the top to insulate a little better. Works great. I only have one pic.
of it:
http://www.europaowners.org/main.php?g2_itemId=27251
Here we have two thin wall aluminium tubes holding it opened as we were using it
in the winter to keep new layups warm after we shut down the heat. All our post
curing was done at Waynes home with no tubes. A small square of Duct tape
closes the holes for the tubes. It stores in a bag smaller than a shopping bag.
If anyone is interested I also sewed up a 10' wide by 20" long and 9 foot high
tent that lives resident in my Tin hangar in NY. The sides are Velcroed in place
and can easily be removed to turn it into a hangar (top stays put 9' off the
ground). Wew have heat from our home made heat exchanger and air conditioning.
Also is a sewn up was our paint booth. It rolls up to a big Q-tip when not being
used. It has filtered air coming through a huge filter sewn to one side:
http://www.europaowners.org/main.php?g2_itemId=27216
The pics only show it 10 feet long, but I can add extra to make it large enough
to paint the fuse and glider wings. The idea is the large 30" fan is blowing
in fresh air through the filter that is close to the size of the wall. The air
is going very slow. Then I have an attic fan in the door with a furnace filter
in it. The 30" overcomes the attic naf and pressurizes the tent. I have to be
careful, we need to put a restrictor over some of the intaqke side of the 30"
fan or it will make the tent so hard it will fail. I should really sew up a
"horses ass" relief valve, just a 8" tube with a rubber band holding it closed.
It hangs fro two 10' tubes and once inflated can easily support 50 or more
pounds
hanging from the tubes.
Ron Parigoris
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