That is practically no space at all in the Outback! I happen to drive one myself and you have been a big inspiration as I think this will get the wife to car camp with me 'hanging style'. Keep up the pics and updates, very much appreciated.
That is practically no space at all in the Outback! I happen to drive one myself and you have been a big inspiration as I think this will get the wife to car camp with me 'hanging style'. Keep up the pics and updates, very much appreciated.
yeah it fits in there great. At interlocken fest a couple of weeks ago, I fit struts for 2 domes in my car along with all my other gear & my buddies gear. we still had plenty of room, I was even able to still use my rear-view mirror.
Pardon my confusing but I've been fiddling with the calculator on that desertdomes.com site and I can't get the math from your initial post to add up, or maybe I'm misunderstanding the building process. Hence this postOriginally Posted by rledge21
You say 16ft diameter and 35 x 10 ft poles.
Now according to the site calculator on the site, if you put in 10 ft poles as the "A" poles (The longest), you'll get a diameter of 32 ft.
And if you put in 8 ft radius (16 ft diameter) you'll get 5 ft "A" poles.
Since you can fit the poles into the back of your car, I'm guessing you mean 35 x 5 ft poles and 16 ft diameter (8 ft radius). Correct?
Assuming that is correct, that would make your packing list for your dome look like this:
35 x 5 ft poles
30 x 4.4 ft poles
26 connection bolts
Correct?
(I'm trying to make a shopping list and don't want to screw it up)
Conduit is stocked in 10ft sections. If you purchase 35, that gives you 35 at 5ft and 35 at 4.4feet and a Bunch of little pieces to recycle.
The little pieces are the overlap on the ends.
From desertdomes.com:
"Make sure to add 1½" for each strut to allow for drilling. For all you 2v dome builders, it's easy because there are only two lengths involved. The magic numbers for a 2v dome cut from 10' conduit pieces are A = 5.3', and B = 4.7'. These numbers allow for holed drilled ¾" away from the ends."
Yes, I used the 5.3' & 4.7' for the numbers. Seemed to come out to be the perfect size - no waste at all, only 1 cut for each conduit, just large enough to hang up several hammocks. You do end up with 5 extra of the short poles, since you only need 30 of them & 35 of the long poles. I'd recommend buying 2-3 extra conduit so you can have some extra long poles as well. Inevitably, someone will run up and try to hang from the middle of a pole, bending it.
Note that this is not 5'3" and 4'7", the .3 & .7 are indeed tenths of a foot. I had to do some math to get it to inches.
Well .3 feet is going to be a little under 4 inches... 4 inches is .33 not sure how exact you have to be... The .7 should be about 8 inches as well, 8 inches is .66...
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Multiply by 12 to get exact inches.
.3 * 12 = 3.6
.7 * 12 = 8.4
so, 5'3.6" and 4'8.4" are the exact lengths you are going for.
and you can just eyeball-guestimate the .6 and .4 of an inch to 'a little over/under half an inch' on your measuring tape.
always remember, 'measure twice, cut once'. there is a little room for error, but try your best not to use it. I ended up throwing out a couple of poles on my first build because I thought they were a little too far off.
I just assumed the area that overlaps was in the measurement already. Good to know there isn't any left over! I guess I could have read the desert domes website
Ahh! That makes sense then. Thanks
I'll convert it to proper metric measurements
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