Detailed cutting plan for the pole topper sections.
Sketchup detail of the pole toppers.
Sketchup detail of the parts of the top.
Sketchup detail of a side pole topper
Laying out a pole cap section
Laying out the parts for one section of a pole topper.
Back of my car filled with SXSW banners. Yay, free stuff!
Printed on the edge of one billboard is a smaller versoin of the whole thing.
Sewing the webbing onto the vinyl
Fireman Dave sewing webbing onto vinyl strips
Alexa measuring webbing
Measuring webbing
Sniffing glue and acetone
Double checking that this will in fact make the shape we want.
Sewing party
Sewing party! Sewing the webbing to vinyl strips.
Center cap welding. Edges are 1" wide flat stock. Most of the rest is 1/2" square tubing.
Welding pole cap in progress.
Welding of a pole cap in progress
Center poles before powder coating
Tent pole cap nearly complete, on a short section of pole for test fitting.
Measuring and cutting wedge sections
Tent builders!
Arranging and gluing the sections
Applying glue to the wedge sections
tired after a long day
tuckered out tent builders
So done
Cutting and gluing is hot, tiring work!
Someone brought a Disney World monorail car to the warehouse!
Gluing down the structural webbing
Gluing down the structural webbing - apply glue to both halves, let dry for a few minutes, then press down.
First half of the top with the structural webbing pieces glued down
Gluing up one half of the top
chopping parts for the center cap
up it goes!
tent raising
Rasing the center pole photo op
Having people pose while rasing the tent is NOT recomended.
Another pic of the raising
Skeltal pole cap and pole.
Lovely! Center pole almost all the way up.
Distributing the poles and stuff.
Steve and Hogie discussing side pole geometry
Top laid out, side poles and ratchet straps and stakes at each side pole grommet.
Side poles go up first. Have a couple of poles with two ratchet straps to prevent the whole tent from 'twisting'.
ready to start raising the side poles
Up it goes!
Tent nearly all the way raised
The "Iwo Jima" shot as we raise the center pole
starting the disassembly process
laying out the tent top and side poles
Tent top all laid out, poles in place
Side poles go up before the center pole
Tent erection is starting to look good
Thumbs up from Patrick
Aaron and Patrick
Fully erect at Flipside.