Took a longer than anticipated break from shooting and pulled out the tent to check my holders for film and the thing reeks. The coating on the fabric has always been a bit "sticky" but now it's really sticky and my wife and kids tell me it "stinks like barf".
Currently trying to air it out and see if that helps...
Anyone else have this happen to them?
Thanks,
Alan.
I have 2; both stink of "barf".
They do gas off, though.
Lachlan.
You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -- Wayne Gretzky
to help with reducing the tackiness, try using some baby powder on the outside. Powder your hands, and rub it lightly on the OUTSIDE. Just a little bit can help reduce the sticky feeling.
Best to do this when its fully zipped up, both zippers!
-Dan
I feel better now, thanksOriginally Posted by Lachlan 717
My three year old was very serious when she informed me of this. I guess I'm living with it.
You can wipe the whole thing down with a fairly weak bleach solution, just like you might with a backpack or tent. Make sure it's set up with the poles so it dries really well and the smell should go, or at least lessen. I've loaded hundreds of thousands of feet of film in mine and it still smells a bit funny.
If these are as I might expect them to be, coated with polyurethane like many other nylon fabrics, it's likely the smell of the coating breaking down--putting the "PU" in (the common industry acronym for) PolyUrethane. To my nose this smells more like tomcats than barf, though :-)
I've had this very thing happen with any number of tents and backpacks after 10-15 years. Probably not much to be done about it that won't risk stripping off the coating.
Hope it doesn't happen to the Photoflex changing room I bought, but if it does, it was only $80 new.
Alan, If you think it smells bad now wait until the rubber inside coating melts. Mine did. It was gruesome..Harrison was no help.. I have gotten along without a tent for a while, but I am with Ivan, my next will be Photoflex..Robbie
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I've been keeping mine in a larger box so it isn't so compressed. Hopefully it holds up because otherwise they are great.
Frank, That may be the way to go. I always kept mine tightly rolled in it's little baggy thing...
http://robbiebedell.photoshelter.com
My tent is still too new to stink, but I have had rain gear stink as described.
Would spraying the tent with Fabreeze help with the eliminating the smell?
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