RE: [Philmont]: Tent maintenance

I had thought about freezing as well, but was afraid of cracking the
tent fabric. I packed up the tent a few days ago to get it out of the
way and accidentally placed the it on an AC vent. When I took it out
again all the resin was solid and not sticky. I scraped with a credit
card  actually one of those frequent shopper cards  and removed a lot
of the stuff. It was mostly small spots. I then blew away the dust and
dabbed with a wet cloth. Most of it came off. There was a tiny bit on
the netting and I used alcohol on a Q-Tip for that. It worked pretty
well. With little bits of the resin still on the tent, Ill be able to
relive my Philmont experience each time I see or smell it.

Diane Mikulis

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On
Behalf Of Mike Bingley
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:49 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: Tent maintenance

I have no idea if this will work, but freezing will take out chewing gum
(it looses its stickyness when its frozen) it might work as well with
pine gum.

If you try it please let me know it it works, just for interests sake.

Mike

On 8/26/03 10:18 AM, "Diane Mikulis" <DBMikulis@comcast.net> wrote:
Does anyone know how to remove pine resin from tent fabric without
affecting the waterproofing? Ive tried scraping, but it wont all come
off.

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Received on Thu Aug 28 18:35:33 2003