I've bought a secondhand tent which is generally in good condition except that one of the pegging points on the sewn-in bathtub groundsheet is missing. Worse, it's one of the corner points (ie, one that you really want to peg, and not skip over).
Does anyone have advice on where I can source a replacement, and how best to fit it?
I actually have an industrial hot air gun which is supposedly up to welding plastic, though I've never tried. Plan A must be buy a replacement and weld it on. The main glitch here is I can't find where to buy one, and my googling for groundsheet pegs eyes etc just turns up ordinary grommets, which I obviously don't want to put through a tub groundsheet.
My plan B is to sew a ring on a shortish length of tape, sew the tape through the groundsheet and then deal with the groundsheet punctures (seam sealant or a patch inside, or probably both).
Does anyone have experience of a good alternative plan? It's a largish canvas tent, so sending it off for repair will be relatively costly just in delivery to and fro.
Thanks for any help.
This is what I have:
This is what is missing (from elsewhere on the tent)
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Answering my own question, just in case it's helpful to anyone else...
ESVO in holland sold me a repair piece. It's basically a pegging point welded to a corner of groundsheet, and I also bought a pot of the recommended glue from them:
You cut the old point out of the groundsheet (traumatic taking scissors to the tent...) and glue the replacement inside, with the point sticking out the hole.
Seemed to go OK (though it needed two people to handle all the flappy gluey bits and not glue everything to everything else). Next time I'd glue it a bit at a time, starting with a band directly around the point and working my way away from that point.
I haven't tried pitching it yet, but it looks OK.
I tried gluing two scraps of groundsheet together a few days ago, and now can't pull them apart, so I think it's strong enough.
They also have pegging points on flat pieces, for the case where it's one not at a corner that has broken: repair category at ESVO shop
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Topic: Replace SIG pegging point
