[pct-l] Tarptent Contrail

[Tortoise]

I've owned a Contrail for a couple years now. A couple of times putting it 
up I've had the end of my trekking pole slip out of the grommet and poke 
thru the tent. I sort of got around this by putting the handle end of the 
pole up. Then when the pole slipped, at least it didn't poke thru the tent.

I've come up with a solution which seems like it will work. I took one of 
the plastic protectors that came on the pole, punch a hole thru the end of 
the protector, used a small truss headed (wider than usual round head like 
used in some electrical stuff) thru it. I made a spacer out of a insulating 
grommet (used to protect wires going thru metal) by trimming it down to fit 
into the grommet and also tight around the bolt; carefully poked a small 
hole thru the tent with an awl, then pushed a plywood tee nut from the 
outside thru the hole and attached the protector. I tried this out last 
weekend in the wind here and it works great. I insert the pole tip and the 
pole stays in place. The fit thru the tent is tight so I don't expect any 
leakage and this attaches outside the mesh. I don't know how much weight I 
added to my tent, but not much.

FWIW

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Tortoise

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