got it!! rebooted second computer - was not too long in the waiting room then. good luck to you all and this worked for me. oh yea, i went in via the link in my code confirmation email.

does anyone have any feedback from their monkey hut performance? here's mine: As always, laying out and pounding the rebar in absolutely suxed!!!! i went with 36", 1/2"round, pounded in 18" on 4 corners 24", 1/2" round on middle 3 ribs (both sides), pounded in 12" BY MISTAKE, one of the corners got ...

i cut the stock ends off my solar power and put a ring connector that hooks on the terminals of my charge controller - works great

fresh, here is the link that i built my hut from. last year was truly no test though due to no wind! i agree with figjam in that it is hot near the top of the tent and i am also going with a small backpacker tent under the hut this year instead of the larger tent from last year. more hang out shade!...

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/307821_1935110949431_2090853460_n.jpg monkey hut external strapping (100' rope, wrapped around rebar stakes that poles are on): rope (50' cut in two) thru bottom grommets and pinned to ground with 10" nail stakes http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/...

i also had an absolute killer swamp cooler last year due to figjam's help - it rocked and was worth the effort. my son was the only one to take advantage of it though as he slept in. i was up by 10, and turned the swamper on when i left the tent. lights, internal circulating fan, swamp cooler, charg...

So what would be better, $400 for canvas tent. Or nylon tent altered with blankets and swamp cooler? i did the same thing with a 15yr old rei tent, some old flannel type material to cover it up for the dust and a monkey hut. i got more out of paying $80 on a sunblocker tarp for the monkey hut then ...

checked out the dynamat - it looks like a denser yurt board.

I have a beloved '89 vanagon as well (but it is a little sick with vanagon syndrome right now :( ) you are getting the reverb because the bed is hard attached to the body, and because it is a breadbox. short of rubber grommets between the bed bolts and the van, i don't know. spray foam is probably a...

I have a question: Has anyone tried this - Drive a piece of rebar into the ground - Slide PVC Pipe over the rebar - Bend PVC to connect at the top of a shelter Will the resulting stress pop the bottom of the rebar out of the ground? I'm sure someone has tried and failed at this... thoughts? http://...

[quote="tamarakay"]Found two fuzzy top hats, one orange and one purple, at St. Vinny's thrift shop today. woot! And a weird thing to do on my sobriety birthday (2/3/88!!), but I bought six bottles of Texas wine to put in the burningman stash. :shock:[/quote] woot woot!!! gotta love that texas wine! ...

i used solar this past year. ran my swamp cooler, supplemental fan in the tent, a light in the tent at night, charged the phones for the drive out - it was great!! i used a charge controller and had just a normal car battery from walmart ($50) which i gifted to my neighbor with an rv at the end. i u...

i don't know how to post a picture, but if you can select this link it is of my swamp cooler, dc charge controller, solar panel & monkey hut. just wanted to share http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1935452317965&set=a.1932518564623.2091286.1592044259&type=1 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid...

hi figjam!! just wanted to pass along a huge thank you for all your posts, the pix, the advice and the countless questions that you answered. my swamp cooler was AMAZING!!! it let my son sleep as long as he needed in the day. it was also nice to just pop in the tent for a cool down after riding out ...

i am running the pump, bucket fan & circ fan in the tent off one source (solar panel to battery, through charge controller. controller from harbor freight solar kit & solar panel from my solar attic fan) - i put an inline switch for the pumpi/fan combo and the circ fan in the tent is actually one of...

[quote="Mrpatatomoto"]Good point, didn't think about water consumption, was trying to figure out the amps and the size solar panel needed to keep a battery charged to run it and trickle charge the battery when i'm not using it. but water is more of an issue, and i'm only in a 10x14 tent so I don't n...

[quote="HandJamMasterC"]Just FYI, 1/4" drip line seems to work well with the Harbor Freight solar pump![/quote] lucky you!!! i must have gotten a dud pump. even with the 1/4" line i couldn't get the full flow. i ended up with the silicon solar pump and FINALLY got full flow through the 3/8" line. i ...

hey yall, my silicon solar pump came (i ordered 2 cause they were close out for $8 ea) and i finally got full flow around the whole tube!!! yaaa question: i used e6000 glue for the 4 coupler to transition between the lid and the pipe. has anyone used this before & know how it will perform in the hea...

[quote="MisaBlue"]The boots are as sexy as YOU make them :) Those are simple army boots from ordinary army shop I bought from one doctor who served in Afghanistan...in real not sexy at all, but on playa? Hell yeah! [img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-s6njigTjTYY/TGQcU_bELlI/AAAAAAAAAuU/vTPMZugUB...

so i am a little blonde!! and now have a VERYYYYYY hurt finger :( where do you get the 55gal drum from? i saw some resources under the resource link. it doesn't seem like any one in my camp has ever done that, but i was thinking of doing the exact same thing! do you fill it up in reno? where do you ...

well, my 190cfm fan came today and i was soooo excited that i just had to make it work. i also had the problem of the 4 wires. if you look at the plug in just the right light you will see that two slots are identified on the face of the plug. for my unit, it wasn't those two wires, but the remaining...

.[/quote] PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ask how much a rental cars cleaning fee is going to cost. A vehicle that's rented in Reno will sometimes have cleaning fees of 200-500 bucks!! :shock: If that's the case, it's worth it to spend 50-100 bucks to get it REALLY professionally cleaned somewhere. Call around...

[quote="subliminalkick"]ok been reading thread after thread decided on a monkey hut ive heard of shade tarps no cheap flimsy tarps i found this bugger at http://www.tarpsplus.com/poly-tarps-single-tarps-brown-tarps.html if any thing pretty sure it would hold in the wind aka hurricane tarp just wante...

[quote="DB Cooper"]OMG I just ordered the best gifts! I'm going to give them out to EVERYONE, they'll really liven up the party. Soon to be prowd owner of 200,000 of these: [img]http://stores.m-e-products.com/catalog/6801_detail.jpg[/img] I can't wait to see how much everyone loves them on they play...

thanks for the hole size!!

i hope the pump & fan come quickly so i can finish this. i want to pack this tent up & get it OUT of my dining room!!

will let you know how it goes. thanks for your help!!

a reply to flabio in addition to figjam's: original msg: Some sites for improving performance of commercial swamp coolers recommend using the cheaper straw pads to improve cooling. Is this different form the nuture aire filter? The straw pad is definitely more fragile. But if care is taken, I'm curi...

yayyy!! i finally ordered my monkey hut tarp. knew i was forgetting something

i am also trying out a new size line for my swamp cooler pump. i can't seem to get good flow all the way around. all well, if at first (or second or third) you don't succeed, try again!!!!

giggles!!!

congrats on having some time off!! enjoy every minute of it.

i got my new boots today!! and a new pack - no lugging something by the handle for me. i also got my first pair of goggles.

the army surplus store was good to me today

5.11 hrt desert boots with coolmax
pacific crest denali 65 pack (kick a$$ pack!!)

well, i still don't have the flow mastered on my swamp cooler, but i worked on it again today. i sorted out the cots, started staging the bigger gear for shipping and started packing my bins!! i camp all the time; i don't know why it seems so hard to pack this stuff. i keep calculating in my head - ...