DIY Side rails in the Tent

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You have got bars up above, but what about on the sides. That tent needs to hold a lot of equipment but all it doesn't have to hang from the ceiling.

When I was putting my tent together, I figured out the 1/2-inch PVC Tee fittings would fit over the tent uprights. I then put in a long piece of 1/2-inch PVC pipe between and fitted into the tees. But I couldn't figure out how to hold them in place. I tried several things to wedge the fitting at the right point on the upright but everything failed.

Well it finally came to me. I went to that orange hardware store and got a drill bit/tap combination and then bought some short, hex-head bolts to match. Well I had to remove the tees from the uprights (luckily it was empty at that moment).

I then drilled and tapped a hole on each side of the PVC Tee fittings. I made sure that the bolts were tight in the holes.

I reassembled the tent with 3 fittings on the two front uprights and four fittings on the back two uprights. That allowed me one 1/2-inch PVC pipe across the front and 2 pipes secured across the sides and two for the back wall.

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