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    all secure in sector 7 Shug's Avatar
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    I use an office binder clip to keep my doors rolled back. And just some dyneema line to stake out doors.
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    [QUOTE=cmc4free;2029372]While certainly not necessary, this is an interesting apparatus (wow, they actually call it that, lol). https://zpacks.com/products/double-hook-apparatus-1


    I just received some of those hooks this week; I’ll try them out over the weekend.

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    I'm sure that I will get the way overkill award, but I have Dutch Stingerz on my doors - one on each end. If I want to close the doors, I clip both d-rings on the Stinger and go around a tree or stake and back. If I want to tie the doors up, I go down the length of the tarp and through the door d-ring on the opposite end and back to the Stinger. Completely unnecessary and 8' of extra cord, but I like it and it serves as a good backup. I had to take one off once and loan it to a buddy who had a problem with his suspension.

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    This is my winter dream tarp. Since I have one tieout coming from the bottom of one door on each side, I made the tieout long enough to stretch across and clip to the door on the other side when not in use. The green shock cord you see is just my panel pulls. Clipping the opposite end doors together allows them to just lay on top of the tarp. 14FF3F21-7F3D-44BC-8BE7-E1997AA886F2.jpg
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    I mostly follow Frozen's setup for my Superfly. Door are just mitten hooks with the clip cut off and shock cord. To close attach the hooks to the opposite guy line, to pull back you can either loop the cord around a panel pull or hook the door to the corresponding door on the other end of the tarp (either inside or outside).


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    Quote Originally Posted by Adroa View Post
    I mostly follow Frozen's setup for my Superfly. Door are just mitten hooks with the clip cut off and shock cord. To close attach the hooks to the opposite guy line, to pull back you can either loop the cord around a panel pull or hook the door to the corresponding door on the other end of the tarp (either inside or outside).
    This is what I did. Works well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dunckelman View Post
    I followed these instructions:

    adventurealan.com

    It works very well for me!
    Yep, this is exactly what I do as well, and I had no idea there was a cool link for this with instructions! It works great. I clip my doors under the Superfly instead of on top. Be sure to carry a couple extra clips though, as one may break in the field and you will definitely want to do a field fix immediately.

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    Senior Member tsshaw78's Avatar
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    I started with a length of shock cord to keep the doors closed. I tied the shock cord to the corner rings and used hooks on the other end. To close the doors I cross the shock cord to the opposite corner ring and hook it into place. It gives me a quick and easy way to open and close the doors.
    However, I noticed that I sometimes pitch my tarp wider than when I cut the shock cord so I over engineered a solution by adding micro whoopie slings made from mason line to the corner rings. For wide pitches, where I still want some protection from wind/rain blowing through the ends, I can hook to the micro whoopie slings and tighten as desired.
    As I said, over complicated but it gave me a reason to practice my splicing. I figure mason line was cheap enough to practice on and throw away the mistakes.
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    This is great. I'm somewhat new and my doors are just flapping in the wind. I also have been staking both doors to the same stake by taking one piece of guyline and bringing it down and then up to the other door and then back down to the stake again. It always seems to get pulled out in the middle of the night by wind so I like the idea of clipping the doors to the other sides guyline.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tsshaw78 View Post
    I started with a length of shock cord to keep the doors closed. I tied the shock cord to the corner rings and used hooks on the other end. To close the doors I cross the shock cord to the opposite corner ring and hook it into place. It gives me a quick and easy way to open and close the doors.
    However, I noticed that I sometimes pitch my tarp wider than when I cut the shock cord so I over engineered a solution by adding micro whoopie slings made from mason line to the corner rings. For wide pitches, where I still want some protection from wind/rain blowing through the ends, I can hook to the micro whoopie slings and tighten as desired.
    As I said, over complicated but it gave me a reason to practice my splicing. I figure mason line was cheap enough to practice on and throw away the mistakes.
    Mine is very similar to this, using micro whoopies, shock cord and mitten hooks. (I subsequently cut the gates off the mitten hooks to make them easier to use; they have never come off unintentionally.)

    I try to always aim for absolute simplicity and no hardware, but for me this is what provided necessary adjustability and ease of use.

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