Originally Posted by
Ramblinrev
You can cut up anything you want. There are several issues at work here. One is the amount of usable fabric you actually get. You want to crunch some nmbers and make sure you have some usable pieces after allowing for zippers, seams and mesh windows. What might appear to be a good sized piece of fabric may become an unusable shape or size.
Secondly what is the weight of the fabric. I have not seen silnylon cabin tents. Admittedly I have never really been in the arket for a cabin tent but sil is not a common fabric used in those products. The largest tent I've had (a four person Eureka dome tent) was not made of sil. It had a PU coated fly and untreated interior walls. I'd bet the single wall cabin tents from the big box stores are PU coated nylon of a fairly substantial weight.
Then there is the cost effectiveness issue. With the previous questions resolved, what is the cost effectiveness of spending the money for a tent you are going cut up to get the amount of usable fabric you are going to get. If you have the tent already and it is taking up space in your gear closet and you want to cut itup then it doesn't cost you anything. I've recycled several tents for parts and pieces. But I would not have gotten anything near an effective cost comparison if I had gone out and bought the stuff to start with for the purpose of cutting it up.
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