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| Notice the duct tape wasn't so much holding the panels together as it
was placed to stop the wind from pressurizing the shelter through the seams.
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| Most consider this a good example of a 'destructive test'. You
will notice at the end of the video we set it up again by resetting the
folds. Therefore we actually consider it to be a 'restructive test'.
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| This is the end wall that took the brunt of the collapse. The door
sill ripped off when the panel was blown clean away from the shelter. We
have since added the butterfly fasteners to eliminate this problem. The
creases in the panels made during the collapse are outlined for visibility
in black marker.
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| This is not the "bad guy" in the upper left. Its the bad 'guy' that
broke first leading to the shelter collapse. The black outlines highlight
folds that 'yielded' in the collapse. You can see the creases theoretically
weaken the structure, though not practically. The shelter can be used as if
new. See the re-setup shelter in the picture below.
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| We had a tent peg going through the floor at this point. It ripped
when the head of the peg was pulled through the floor. Next time we'll put
the tent peg through the floor in the middle of a panle, not on the fold of
the panel. Its stronger in the middle.
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So there it is then.
The UniFold Shelter survives the slings and
arrows of everything!
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