Wehrmacht zelthbahn repro's any good ?

[Pietje]

Are the Sturm repro zeltbahnen any good agaist rain ?

[Franz repper]

No not from what I have heard

[Pietje]

Thanks, so what is best solution apart from original stuff...

[Stigroadie]

SMWholesale

[Hans Gowert]

what are the ones RAU sell ? they keep the rain out for me

[Mikkel]

Sturm

[Franz repper]

Sturm

I dont know about now but the old ones (SS) are not sturm

[Hans Gowert]

the ones i bought from RAU 2 year ago has kept the rain out plenty of times.

If you do have problems, just use that water proof spray

[Mikkel]

Sturm

I dont know about now but the old ones (SS) are not sturm

the Wh ones are.
i know he also got SMW, but i don't think he ever stocked SMW splinter.

[Stigroadie]

There was a time pre-Sturm when RAU sold an expensive repro and original splinter zelts. If the repro were not SMW I'm not sure what they would be.
He still sells originals.

[Grabenkater]

I traded for a Sturm repro just a couple weeks ago. IMHO its not that bad, the two sides are spring and fall shade, and it has three hole buttons. However, the grommets are larger than the originals and the fabric is a little thinner than originals. It seems to be better than the replicas from Sturms older production. There are no exposed seams as on the ones I have observed in the past. Overall, I would say that it is good for field use and even LH displays.

I threw mine in the washer to give it a used appearance.

[Pietje]

I have one from Sturm but do not think they any good to sleep in when it rain's... How do other people this (of do they not sleep in them???)

[Franz repper]

I sleep in mine its ok one of Richards old SS ones

[Hans Gowert]

i sleep in mine all the time,

slept in mine when it was pissing it down. Yes it was wet on the in side but it didnt leak

[Pug42]

The trick with zelts is not to touch (or have anything else touching) the inside when the fabric is wet. The fibres swell and 'seal' the surface unless something comes into contact with the inside in which case it kind of 'wicks' through.

We've all had rucksacks and pillows that have been touching the inside of a zelt tent in the rain and end up wet through although the zelt itself remains waterproof!

(At Mereworth once a colleague and I buttoned two single zelt sections together and tied the resulting large diamond shape to saplings like an awning and shared the space in a shallow scrape underneath... we stayed more or less dry whereas those who had wrapped themselves in their single zelt sections were soaked through!)