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Damaged tarp eyelet

Medwayman

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Not sure how it happened, but an eyelet has come out and ripped a little, have got repair kit for the eyelet itself but looking for suggestions on some tarp repair tape to cover the hole, heavy duty with good adhesion. cheers
 
Medwayman said:
Not sure how it happened, but an eyelet has come out and ripped a little, have got repair kit for the eyelet itself but looking for suggestions on some tarp repair tape to cover the hole, heavy duty with good adhesion. cheers
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personally I would stitch on a loop, once the eyelet has gone I don't think you'll ever get a permanent fix
 
Show us pictures, please!

I know people who make for them selfes gear like that and professional makers too.

And I spoke with them a lot about the theme.

For the moment I would suggest to glue silnylon only with special sIlnylon glue and poliester /PU with Polyester PU glue. If you do something else, that will not work.

If its impossible to set an eyelet larger than the damage, you have to stich a loop at it.

That must be made more or less like this:


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That is, by the way, the corner of a new Hilleberg Silnylon Tarp.

They don't use eyelets.
They do it, how you see it in the photo.

To make it like this is expensive. That's the reason, why not everybody does it like this.
 
And that's the silicon glue you can use if you really should have a silnylon tarp.

SilNet™ Silicone Seam Sealer | McNett Europe - Outdoor

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Attention!
Some tarps and tents and ponchos are made from polyester with a PU coating.

For that this firm offers another special seam glue.

ATTENTION!
In the USA since a couple of years real silicon Nylon tarps and tents are interdicted.
(They think it would be dangerous with fire.)


Newer US American products have sometimes at one side silicon but at the other side PU!!!

If you should own an US or Canadian Product you have to know that!

It is needed to stich the corner and repair it with a silnylon fabric. Hilleberg for example sells small bags made from silnylon.

Extremtextil in Germany would be the shop where I would buy silnylon, would I live in France I would ask Tipik for a piece of silnylon. Or I would ask him to repair the tarp. (he speaks English by the way.)

In Oranienburg we have a specialised outdoor cutter like this too and in colone the ultra light rucksack maker Laufbursche who could help me in Germany.

(But I asked a normal cutter master to make exactly that work for me to attach loops at my Polyester/Pu Decathlon Solignac hunting poncho, because I want to try, if that holds the forces. Unfortunately I didn't find the time to seal the seams and have currently no pictures of that work, which looks very similar to the Hilleberg tarp corner.
I haven't the poncho with me and can't make a photo in this moment. I will show it later, when I come along in Colone, where it is. But this will take minimum two weeks, depending on my job.)

What I want to say is:
Every good civil cutter can do this work, if you show him the photo from the Hilleberg corner and tell him, that it is INSIDE the tent.

But I don't know who sells silnylon in Britain and I don't know who produces small series from that fabrics there.

If you do not find it, you should surch for the British ultra light trekking forum and ask there. The ultra light trekking community is very very good in do it yourself, because they surch for new options and the best solutions with that new fabrics.
And they use mainly silnylon tarps!

May be, that somebody sends you such a little piece for free.
I wouldn't use a different fabric to repair it, because I think, then you wouldn't get the seams really tight. But about this I am not sure.
 
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What I think would work too, is to shorten the tarp.
I think it should be possible to cut the triangle away, double the fabric as usual and to set two eyelets in the two new corners.
There you attach a rope, which replaces the now missing corner.

I think that will be not so strong as before but perhaps it works.
 
I have used the Gator/clingon clips and they do work well.
Once on where you want them I found it best to leave them in the same position......and not keep moving them around.

It's a good idea to use bungee cords to spread your tarp.......the spring/buffering effect will put a lot less strain on your pull out points/eyelets......especially in very windy conditions.
You can make up your own bungees to the length and thickness you want by buying the bungee rope and attachments on ebay or wherever.
 
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Not really Erbs.....if you tie/wrap them around rather than rely on hooks etc............. you have less chance of getting a slap from one of them ;)
 
I don't trust them.

I think flexible mountain ropes are the better choice.
 
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I have used the Gator/clingon clips and they do work well.
Once on where you want them I found it best to leave them in the same position......and not keep moving them around.

It's a good idea to use bungee cords to spread your tarp.......the spring/buffering effect will put a lot less strain on your pull out points/eyelets......especially in very windy conditions.
You can make up your own bungees to the length and thickness you want by buying the bungee rope and attachments on ebay or wherever.
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I've been dubious of these in the past, nothing to base it on as I've never tried them. Next month when my spendies drop into the account I'll get some and give it a go although as I tend to use a tarp depending on the surroundings I'd be loath to leave them on, at that price, worht a punt.

Cheers for the info guys.
 
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