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    I use Mountain Goat (Kats) and they have those mod's Shug showed, as standard (Or at least she did them on mine).
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    Don’t roast me for posting a non-cottage solution, but I’ve had great success with the Chill Gorilla snake skins. They come in nylon (1) 134” sleeve and (1) 39” sleeve = total 173”. They have drawstrings with toggles on each end of each sleeve and cinches up very nice. I’ve tried some other brands without the ability to cinch them in the middle, and I just don’t care for them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FLTurtle View Post
    Two piece tarp sleeve? My solution was to get a one piece mesh sleeve.
    ^^^^ this ^^^^
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oquirrh View Post
    ...do you guys have any tips on how to keep a tarp in snakeskins?
    Just don't leave any food out.

    But seriously, do you not have cinch cords on the ends that meet in the middle? I thought that was std. And so, I just overlap them and cinch them down. Frankly, I prefer them to the one sleeve which I find harder to get an even fill over the length of the sleeve.
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    I thought so too, but the set I recently purchased from dutch didn't have them.

    Quote Originally Posted by dakotaross View Post
    Just don't leave any food out.

    But seriously, do you not have cinch cords on the ends that meet in the middle? I thought that was std. And so, I just overlap them and cinch them down. Frankly, I prefer them to the one sleeve which I find harder to get an even fill over the length of the sleeve.

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    The Hennessy snakeskins are actually quite nice in this respect. They have a soft plastic "collar" on the wide end (can be sort of seen in the photo below). That collar is enough to tighten the ends when the snakeskins overlap so that nothing gets loose.


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    I ran into this issue too with my Dutch 2 piece snake skins. I did something similar to Shug, but instead of adding another grosgrain channel, I just used Dutch's #16 splicing needle and some 1/16" shock cord with a micro cord lock and ran it though the existing grosgrain channel at the inside end of one of the halves.

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    Why not put a Kam snap in the middle and snap the two halves together after pulling them on?


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    Quote Originally Posted by bitti View Post
    The Hennessy snakeskins are actually quite nice in this respect. They have a soft plastic "collar" on the wide end (can be sort of seen in the photo below). That collar is enough to tighten the ends when the snakeskins overlap so that nothing gets loose.

    These are what I use for my Superfly The only downside is that if it's a wet weekend, I have to turn them inside out to dry when I get home

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    Quote Originally Posted by HazeRVA View Post
    I ran into this issue too with my Dutch 2 piece snake skins. I did something similar to Shug, but instead of adding another grosgrain channel, I just used Dutch's #16 splicing needle and some 1/16" shock cord with a micro cord lock and ran it though the existing grosgrain channel at the inside end of one of the halves.
    That's slick thinking, I think I'll try getting that needle and doing the same. I don't have a sewing machine yet, so even what could be simple jobs for most may take me a while (total sewing noob). I've got the same skins, and there's been a ton of cool suggestions thus far.

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