jebiruph
Well-Known Member
Another thing about the pre-coated fabric is that on their website, Napier refers to the coating as weatherproofing and that the tent may leak where the coating peels off. That implies that the water resistance is on the inside of the tent and not the outside. I've never seen a tent that was water resistant from the inside.It looks like these are assembled from pre-coated fabric so it would have been dry when packed, but they were packed overly tight. Unless something is done to the inside surface, it looks to me like it could stick again.
I suspect that just like every other tent, these have the water resistant coating on the outside and the only purpose of the black coating on the inside is to prevent light from escaping. Typical nylon tents are translucent and when lit on the inside at night, they are highly visible from the outside. The black coating gives these tents a night time "black out" camouflage.
This would mean the only downside of the peeling is that light gets out, but it shouldn't allow water in.
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