(nklr) - saw an interesting tent at americade

[skypilot110]

If you recall the conversation a few months ago, I have a nice tent, an ENS Eclipse2 which packs very small and light, but I recomend anybody who must ask for recomendations to go buy a cheap tent first to learn. I stand by that statement still. This is because everybody needs to learn what is important to them. That said I saw something very cool at Americade that I think offers something most other tents dont. Outright speed to set up. For those willing to spend $ for outright convienience and time saving read on. http://www.catomaoutdoor.com/ had three tents set up at the show. They looked about the same size as all the other millions of tents an in fact were about the same size folded up. They use a folding built in pole system that made them very easy to set up. I tried a few times and admit they go up way faster than I can set up my Eclipse. In fact I was able to duplicate their stated "60 second setup" easily. You can find smaller packed size and lighter weight if you go looking, that was important for me, but if you want speed then check out the motorcycle section of this companies site I'm not a customer. Just a camper who saw something interesting at the show!

[Jeffrey]

I posted this before but evidently some of you missed it and claimed I was pulling info out of thin air. The ATF fluids were less destructive with the two seal compounds at the temperatures investigated. The non-ATF fluid tended to extract unattached and un-bonded compounding ingredients from the rubber matrix. This leads to excessive shrinkage, increasing hardness, reduced lip flexibility, reduced interference and seal leakage. References (1.) L.R.G. Treloar, "Effect of network breakdown and reformation on the swelling of rubber in compression," Rubber Chem. & Tech., vol. 42, no. 2, p. 589 (1969). (2.) E. Southern and A.G. Thomas, "Diffusion of liquids in crosslinked rubber," Rubber Chem. & Tech., vol. 42, no. 2, p. 495 (1969). (3.) K. Ono, A. Kaeriyama and K. Murakami, "Effects of diffusion in oxidative degradation of vulcanized rubbers: I. Rate of chain scission scis sion n. 1. A separation, division, or splitting, as in fission. 2. 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Index 0.02 0.01 (VDI) * * VDI = (initial value - final value)/initial value Figure 15--comparative physical characteristics of new seal and warranty seals exposed to non-ATF gear fluids (hardness data on case-1 missing) ID, lip load and IRHD hardness Spr. I.D. Spr. lip load IRHD hardness New seal 25.05 23.33 71.0 Case-1 26.49 17.48 Lip load Case-2 26.57 15.78 86.2 Case-3 26.45 15.02 88.3 Case-4 26.413 17.633 85.2 Note: Table made from bar graph. by Gabriel Osanaiye, TRW Automotive For other things named TRW, see TRW (disambiguation). On 12th December 12 2002, Northrop Grumman acquired TRW Inc. An 80.1% stake (later increased to more than 90%) in TRW Automotive Holdings, including the former LucasVarity Automotive, was spun off to ..... Click the link for more information. Jeffrey #3