For travel friends who love outdoor sports, how to better maintain outdoor tent equipment is very important. Outdoor equipment in the wild is your friend taking care of you. The correct maintenance method can maximize the service life of outdoor equipment. Now, let’s talk about how to maintain an outdoor tent.
Method/Step
1. Things to do after buying a new camping tent. The tent is rain-proof, and rain-proof naturally needs to use some plastic materials for coating or composite. Therefore, there will naturally be plastic smell in the tent, which is sometimes toxic. It seems that the country has not set clear standards for the release of formaldehyde, TVOC and other harmful gases in tents. Therefore, after buying a new tent, you must not leave it there, and use your lungs to make a vacuum cleaner when you use it. It is best to stay at home and open the windows for ventilation for about 3 days. Generally, the taste can be cut by half in 3-4 days. At this time, you can also check the tent for leaking stitches and leaking glue.
Many friends will find that some tents feel very good after entering. It is clean and odor-free, and feels particularly comfortable. Some tents are obviously dirty and have an unpleasant smell. Why is this? In fact, it may not be that the people who use the tent do not care about hygiene, but that the maintenance of the tent is not done properly.
The most important thing that camping tents need to pay attention to is that they should be dried after each use. The main purpose of drying is to dry the tent and prevent moisture. Moisture first comes from our breath and condensed dew. People will lose about 300-400CC of water during the night's breathing and evaporation of sweat. Part of this water is dispersed into the air. The other part is that the surface of the tent itself is waterproof, which causes condensation on the surface of the tent, and the temperature difference causes the tent outside the tent to easily condense dew. Then there are steam when cooking and boiling water, etc., and precipitation caused by weather such as rain, snow, and fog. In order to get up early, the tents are usually collected earlier. Therefore, the water cannot be drained cleanly. If it is stuffed, it won't take long for it to mold and produce a mildew smell, and in serious cases, it will produce mildew spots. This kind of mildew spots cannot be removed and will completely penetrate into the fibers of the fabric, which greatly affects the appearance. And this kind of mildew smell is also difficult to get rid of. Even if it is removed for a while, once the tide returns, the taste will soon be restored. Therefore, it is best to absolutely avoid mildew.
2. Sometimes it is found that the waterproof performance of the tent outside account seems to be getting weaker and weaker, why? This is because the tents were originally water repellent. The water repellent properties are like lotus leaves, and water drops can roll off quickly without leaving traces. However, after a few rains or long-term use, this water repellent performance will be lost, causing rainwater to start to penetrate directly and eventually penetrate through the waterproof membrane. Therefore, it is necessary to restore the water-repellent performance of the tent surface in time. There are two ways. One way is to use an iron to iron the outer surface of the outer tent. When choosing the temperature, you must choose a low temperature, such as ironing on a silk file, so that the glue will not be damaged. It is best to put a layer of cotton underneath to prevent adhesion. This kind of ironing is best not to exceed twice, ironing will not resume after more than two times. At this time, it is necessary to spray water repellent agent.
The maintenance of tent poles and ground nails is also a part of how to maintain the tent. The most important component of a tent should be the poles, and we usually ignore the maintenance of the poles. In use, everyone knows to avoid breaking the tent pole or stepping on a heavy object to press the tent to cause its deformation, but one thing that you may not notice is the damage caused by sand and soil to the tent pole. When mud and sand enter the joints between the poles, it will not only affect the splicing of the poles, but also wear the inner and outer walls of the poles. Therefore, the poles should be carefully maintained with a clean cloth after each use. At the same time, when disassembling the tent pole, it should be dismantled from the middle first. The advantage of this is that the elastic ropes in the tent pole are balanced in force and avoid local elastic force failure to affect the natural splicing of the tent pole.
Compared with other parts, the floor nails are the smallest, but poor floor nails also affect the overall performance of the tent, at least the wind resistance is reduced. In winter, there are no floor nails to tighten the outer tent and separate the outer tent from the inner tent. It will also allow you to clean up the contents of the tent in a wet environment. Therefore, the performance of the ground nails must also be wonderful. As for the maintenance, it is very simple. Every time you use it, wipe the soil, clean it, and pack it again to avoid dirtying your tent. If there is a crook in use, remember to correct it when you go home. It is not a wise choice to take a crooked ground nail out. The shape of the ground nails in the market is generally round, square, triangle and cross. Personal evaluation, the cross shape is the most durable and not easy to bend. If you are particular about equipment, you can reconfigure your unsatisfied account pegs, and you can save yourself a lot of worry for a small amount of money. Also, remember to bring one or two more tent pegs every time you go out. Loss of tent pegs is common.
3. The cleaning of the camping tent should be mentioned. What should I do if it is particularly dirty. Especially when we come back from the beach, we will find that there seems to be sand in the tent that can never be removed. Or if it rains, the tent is covered with mud, so it must be thoroughly cleaned. The best way is to open the tent to the bathroom and spray it with a shower nozzle and gently scrub with a small brush. When necessary, you can put a little neutral detergent for cleaning. It must be sprayed with cold water, hot water is forbidden. If there is not enough space in the bathroom, you can clean it by laying it on the floor without supporting poles. But it must not be cleaned in the washing machine, because the tent fabrics are waterproof, so that not only can not be cleaned, but also easy to cause damage to the washing machine and the tent glue.
