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DAE spend a whole morning trying to get a tent pole to fit right?
I was setting up my new two-person tent from a brand I won't name, and one pole section just would not slide into the grommet on the rainfly. I messed with it for over two hours in my backyard before I realized the pole tip had a tiny plastic burr from the factory. Has anyone else had a simple gear flaw eat up a huge chunk of time?
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valallen1d agoMost Upvoted
That "tiny plastic burr from the factory" is the perfect example. I see this everywhere now, where a small, dumb manufacturing flaw creates a huge time sink. It's like the universe's way of reminding us that most problems aren't complex, they're just a piece of plastic in the wrong place. You feel like you're going crazy until you spot the one thing that's actually wrong.
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mason_stone91d ago
Wait, is a grommet the metal ring in the fabric? Because if the pole tip was messed up, that's a pole problem, not a rainfly problem. That tiny burr would mess up any hole it tried to go into.
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