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The information and concern is appreciated. Clearly it's more volatile than mineral spirits.

I was curious and interested in a waxed cotton sort of texture. I'm not saying this is a better...

Naphtha and mineral spirits, are both highly flammable petroleum distillates. I don't see a huge difference between the two as far as safety precautions that need to be taken. Maybe some chemist here...

Just wanted to report on a small experiment. I used paraffin and silicone 1:1 and about 5 parts Naphtha (coleman camp fuel). I shaved the parraffin into a big glass peanut butter jar. It didn't...

That's true for the solventless Liquid Silicone Rubber. The solvent based stuff might be doable?

Thanks for the input. Just wanted to leave this here. In researching this, I found one of the things the industry uses:
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I've got a couple of hypotheticals / questions I'd like to pose, if anyone would care to take whacks at em, please do.

1. I'm thinking that the angles of a typical hammock tarp should shed water...

Another thing you could try is sewing a couple of lengths of grosgrain hanging straight down at the corners, say a foot or two long, and tie those together with the shock cord. This should have the...

The second one was also with a foot box. I don't know if it will work without a high side.

On my hammock the net circles about 75% of the way around. The question would be, without a high side,...

I haven't tried it with an underquilt yet, but so long as the quilt suspension is past the edges of the net, it should allow the net to slide between the quilt and hammock.

I posted this earlier but I made a second one and it works too so I'm considering this verified™. It was posted earlier in another thread, but maybe it's worthy of it's own thread?
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Here is the video of my twist on this concept. Now someone else has to try this. I don't want it to go in my huge journal of irreproducible results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BynvxpWrNlU

I haven't had a chance to video the variation I did but I'll try to describe it.

I did this with a footbox hammock, since the footbox makes a high side. On the highside I sewed a rectangle of bug...

Amazing!

http://vimeo.com/22826209

It's spring, and a great time for planting seeds, so I figure I'd plant this seed here and see what grows :)

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1984-07-01/Fold-Yourself-a-Hammock.aspx

Awesome! Simple and light!

If we discover something new do we get to name it like those folks that discover new stars?

If so I dub this the "butt bungee."

What I did is take a rectangle of bugnet and sewed it to the high...

I keep seeing this stuff in multiple colors at JoAnn's. I'm not having any luck figuring out what it actually is. The nylon seems pretty heavy.

Any of you have some insight you can offer?

I'm 6'2" and the base material was 58". Maybe I didn't stuff myself deep enough in the foot box, but the most comfortable spot I could find was at a diagonal with the zipper right under my armpit.
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This is what came to mind:

http://youtu.be/Nbu9-oYN-UY

I gave 1022's design a try. I used a #5 zipper and find that the zipper lands right under my left shoulder. Since the zipper has zero give to it, and the nylon around it has a lot of give, the zipper...

Just curious, what is the intent behind using double layers of 1.1 instead of a single layer of say 1.9?

Is it to leave a space for pad insertion?

I don't know if this can be visualized outside of my head, but would a continual piece of shock cord fashioned into a sort of elongated figure 8 work?

Basically the same shaped net configuration...