Will A Flex Seal Tent Keep You Dry?

Are there going to be three, two, one? We cover this entire store with

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seal

. In fact, we cover many things with

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seal

. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any more ships that Phil Swift hasn't cut in half, but we want to put them up. Flexible seal for our own wilderness testing Camping in the wilderness exposed to the elements can be brutal, so we wanted to test whether a fully waterproof

tent

would be comfortable and protect us or leave us sweaty and miserable. We recently tried coating some clothing and flexible seal and it turned out surprisingly well.

We found that the rubber barrier that the flexible seal creates is highly effective at repelling water even on clothing, so it left us curious. Can we go a step further and try a flexible sealing

tent

in the wild? We're not out in the wild yet, we have to set up all of our equipment so we can flex seal it, let's take a look at all the things we're going to cover with flex seal. Grace is setting up a camp chair if she can ever get it out of the bag, we have a sleeping bag that should do a good job even without a flexible seal to

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us warm and then we have a tent, we actually have two tents campaign, oh, callie, we're filming now, yeah? oh shit so there are a couple of reasons we have two tents, one is so we can have a good side by side test of a flex seal coated tent and one that isn't, the other is that it allows us to paint better . paint the body of this tent while we paint the rain fly on this tent and then once they are both dry we

will

put that fly on this tent and have one that is completely coated, sounds pretty good if you ask me let's start with the problem.

I realize that I'm going to be in the store totally flexible and I'm not going to know when it's tomorrow. I'm going to be in Felix's unsealed tent and I wake up as soon as it's light, so I'm going to be up around six and I'm going to start making noise and that's how she'll know it's morning, like The sounds of a bear outside my tent as we cover this dye and gum, makes us wonder why they don't come this way? Why aren't all tents 100% waterproof? One of the most important factors in human comfort is the humidity level.

There is actually science in camp. The pens are designed in a special way to create the balance they are made of. Special materials that

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heavy rain and the elements out of you but at the same time allow air to circulate and interior moisture to escape. The mesh on the top of the tent greatly increases airflow, which helps prevent humidity levels from building up inside the tent. The high humidity of the tent makes the heat and cold feel more extreme, however, the flexible seal changes things. The spray is a rubbery substance mixed with solvents and cures into a closed cell non-porous solid layer, this in turn changes the properties of whatever is sprayed onto the coating.

The materials are impermeable to liquids and are not completely breathable, so no air or moisture

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pass through, so while it may be beneficial to avoid rain, the lack of ventilation can cause extreme levels of humidity and temperature depending on the location. camping. We need to test the strength of the flexible seal. This is a great opportunity for us to try out the things everyone wanted to see. Let's see how well the flexible seal holds up to these extreme temperatures. We present to you the newest. Flex Seal Camping Nate and Cali Product Line Show us what we have first: the baddest sleeping bag on the market.

Have you ever thought that your sleeping bag is too breathable? Worry no more, this rubber covered sleeping bag might just be a Nightmare Secondly, we have the most luxurious waterproof camping chair. It is comfortable? It may not hold up well anymore, but chances are it will make your butt sweat. And now, the piece de resistance at the top of our equipment list is the latest technology. -Artistic camping piece, the flexible steel tent from top to bottom, this rubber coated shell is designed to keep the extreme elements out of your face and seals everything inside, everything you are looking for for a great night's rest in the wild then you need to look somewhere else, this could be It was a big mistake but we'll see so we have our tents and camping gear painted and drying there while that happens we'll try some other experiments with this flexible seal , things we haven't had the opportunity to try.

We don't know yet, will it get as cold at night as liquid nitrogen? I'm going to go ahead and say no, fortunately, no, yes, Grace is bad, but we're going to try it in liquid nitrogen anyway because we like to try things in liquid nitrogen that we love. liquid nitrogen oh, it's dancing, come on, come on, oh, that's fun, let's have a rope, I think we have like a frozen crown, now it's interesting, so when it hits, it's hot enough to make the nitrogen nuclear boils and moves and changes shape but quickly cools to a point where it doesn't move at all, it just solidifies in place now it's mostly quiet yeah you want to try grabbing some yeah I bet it'll melt and it'll start to get your glove sticky pretty quickly, but yeah, at this point it's probably like you can squish it oh, real quick, where's the blowtorch? oh hey cali this one found out how to summon it right so let's try a very small amount of this and see if it burns. like other ready rubber objects we look for the material data safety which is the best it looks like lava it looks like lava it really does so it burns but it's not like a super crazy burning violin you don't want to puncture it yes I do I know it burns a little like melted rubber oh, it smells good, yes, it smells like burning rubber.

Okay, there's one more experiment we want to try. We've all seen the flexible sealed cube video where Phil Swift sealed a cube that suffered a lot of damage. We want to see if we can completely seal a cup full of water using a flexible seal. Will it be strong enough to hold all the water? At this point, we have everything painted ready to go. It's time to run our store. in the wild, it was pretty good, good driving, okay, we've had camp set up for a while and it's cold, yeah, time for some experiments to start, it's getting colder, the sun is setting, we have clouds and a lot . of wind blowing over us, which has definitely dropped the temperature by a noticeable amount; actually it's supposed to even snow tonight where we are so it's going to be a big test yes a big test for our team but right now we want to do some testing to see how the two different tent materials perform in regarding temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide level with a group of people inside, so we will have everyone here go up to one tent at a time.

We'll just keep track of what the stats are like. doing and after 15 or 20 minutes we will mark a time and then we will switch to the other store and see if it is different there. Cali is looking at our monitor that checks the carbon dioxide content in the air, this is parts per million. So it started before anyone came in here, it had been sitting in the store for about 20 minutes and it had gotten down to 290. Now, in theory, a dangerous level of carbon dioxide in terms of parts per million starts at about 10. 000. changed to the grumpy face, okay, that means it's getting close to a thousand uh, both devices are supposed to measure humidity, they have conflicting results, what does that say about moisture content? 25, relative humidity, well, this one says 34.

I can't tell you which one is correct, but I think what interests us most is that if they go up, the crowd goes crazy, okay, so looking at us through the tears from mom, yes, this one is now inaccurate because Cali breathed on it, it's true. I have redone a lot with the CO2 monitor. In fact, with the wind gusts that came through it, we saw it fluctuate quite a bit, so we saw a peak of something like I think it was like 15 on that, around 1500 and then we took it down. I like it 700 800 something like the second part of entering Why does this one feel tighter?

Well, here we go. Okay, now we're at the creepy flex tent, which is creepy because it blocks out almost all the light. In reality, it is just as light. outside like it was in the other store, but it doesn't go through the walls at all, so it's a lot darker here, in fact, if we turn off all the lights, if you can see holes in the wall, like where it's not very thick. Enough is enough, we've far exceeded the maximum we reached and we've only been here for about four minutes. I'm not normally one to get claustrophobic.

We should tell you no, we're just missing oh, we just passed three. One thousand percent just threw up another 200. How's our humidity level? 37 in this case the humidity temperature is like going up very very quickly it's like 65.8 so we are hotter with higher CO2 and higher humidity so we didn't realize the CO2 monitor peaked of 5,000 parts per million. We caught up with him in eight minutes and didn't even get close to the other store. um yeah the temperature went up to seventy eight seventy seven it wasn't 78 briefly so cali sleep. In this tent we will definitely leave parts of the door and the small side wall of the pocket open so there is some ventilation and not bring the CO2 to dangerous levels.

Okay, open door, open door, so the reason why this all works correctly. Due to the insulation, it is similar to how an igloo works, so on the outside of an igloo the ambient temperature can be as low as negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit, however, inside it can get between 16 and 60 degrees Fahrenheit. It's been a long day but we've got everything ready and I'm ready to go to bed. I hope Nate sleeps well in the sleeping bag on the pillow and I hope he survived the night in the tent. Good night, Nate, good night, Mark, good night, good night, Phil.

It's time to go to sleep, cali, night, night, so in the middle of the night update this tent because it's not breathable, the wind just hits the outside and it's incredibly loud, it's very bright, okay, it's nice and dark Well, that was an experience first. talk about how the night was we said there might be some snow there was no snow or rain none of that it was very windy until probably around two or three o'clock it's about there being a lot of noise in this store I can only imagine you're I want to I mean, I could hear your tent, I imagine your tent swayed terribly loud there in terms of warmth.

I thought it was decent. In theory it was a 30 degree sleeping bag before starting, before painting it and I think so. About the same as a normal 30 degree sleeping bag. I didn't have any problems with overheating. I didn't have any problems with too much humidity. Maybe if we had been doing this in July, we would be fine, so the flex seal tent. In itself, guys like Nate said that it was very noisy sleeping there because the wind was lifting the corners of the tent because we don't have them all staked, so the noise was absolutely crazy, but what I thought was interesting is that the El CO2 monitor went off and it actually didn't take long, it was a few hours.

I think it first turned off around midnight and then I restarted it and also the humidity level there, I think it would have been a lot worse. in the summer, like Nate was saying, I think if you're in the summer you'd basically have a sauna, but it got up to 42 humidity, which is a lot higher than what we have in the air around here, so that was the interesting thing that I also found What I liked was the fact that it got to about 40 degrees in the store and it wasn't 40 degrees last night, it was a lot colder, we got down to probably lower 30 degrees Fahrenheit, I think it's probably more like 25.

It's colder, like I said, It didn't rain or snow so to really appreciate the effect it has in terms of waterproofing we're going to have to add our own guys so Nate and Kylie are still camping. I left it. because it was too cold and windy up there for me, but I went back to check our flexible steel cup, we sprayed about four coats on top of this cup to seal out the water and now it's the real glue, will it hold up to anything? The water in this cup is fine, list three two one, it did, so it can not only seal the cubes with flexible seal so that the water does not leak, but also retain the liquid.

I mean, I really didn't expect this because, when I arrived. To test this the first time, the flat seal separated from the liquid at the top and there is a hole, so we sprayed four coats here. I'm surprised, I mean, you can see when I push it in, you can see the flexible seal. give it a little but it never uh lets up so it didn't rain last night but we still want to waterproof our tent so we're going to go ahead and simulate a torrential downpour and Nate has volunteered to be the guinea pig what's so awesome it was noteasy I'm going to turn around so you can count down and I'll turn three two one are you still dry? um well I was until I stood here in this puddle and it turns out that when I flex sealed it, you can see there were folds and the water is penetrating through those folds, okay, but the back that we just hit with water is totally dry, my socks are very wet and cold now, although it's okay, let's give it a little weight.

It's raining hard at the door. What if it were a rain so hard that it was like raining upwards under the rain fly? It is a very strong rain. Are they going in? Yes, everything through the zipper would not go down all the way, so everything. that was right there and he's in a puddle right here, he almost collapsed too, any moisture that comes out, it doesn't come out, there's something that looks like drips, but that's just the flexible seal that came out, aha, but completely dry, oh god mine, that's so. Great, I mean there's a few drops from where it fell off the door when I opened it, but given how much water we just threw on it.

Which is like nothing, phil swift, hey, t-core team, phil swift , listen, that flexible seal camping gear was off the charts, fantastic or flexible, listen, I have some other ideas, I really think we should discuss, let's get started, damn, that was it. Yes, you are going to be a beautiful butterfly, make it the butterfly you were always meant to be, spread your wings, oh, I don't have wings, I didn't hit it, I didn't make them, oh, hello, mark.