A Burning Man Blog by Mike

Early this morning I dug out the old Pfaff sewing machine and sewed the very first pieces of canvas together to make our first K hinge. Although we didn’t glue it down yet, we decided to test our gluing skills with Liquid Nails to an upper section of the roof. We glued on a 6 inch wide piece of canvas to each side for strength. I ended up using a piece of plastic to act as a Bondo spreader. The glue spreads very nicely and quickly before it sets.

Here is how the pieces for each of the roof panels get assembled. Just like the picture says, score the foam board from each side to make a nice clean cut.

Today Bill and I went through ideas for the assembly process that I think would make for a ‘once piece’ fold out Yurt. I drew up some ‘paper dolls’ and we folded them into the most efficient shape for transporting them. There will be a couple of challenges but the assembly time on the playa will be very short and I hope can be done by just one person. What a claim!!

We also went to the store and picked up a couple of R-Max panels and some liquid nails in the 28oz tube. We looked at the 8oz canvas cloth at HD but it didn’t seem to be heavier than what I bought at the fabric store. I may take a trip to the army surplus to see if there is any canvas that is heavier.

We hope to get some testing going on the K hinge system, but Michael Jackson’s Memorial is tomorrow, so we may have to push out our testing one day.