Looking for Medium Maintenance Tent TM

[Radiogeek99]

Just picked one of these up, it has a few broken parts and I am looking for the TM to find the part numbers. I've searched and have found threads of people talking about them, but no one has uploaded the TM that I could find. Thanks.

 

[Stonepicker1]

Is this the TM number your looking for? TM 10-5410-284-13&P (LME)

 

[MWMULES]

The Technical Manual for Medium Maintenancetent is TM 10-8340-207-14 http://www.liberatedmanuals.com/TM-10-8340-207-14.pdf
Parts list is here http://www.tentnet.org/tentnet/basecamp/maintmed/maintenancemediumencl.html

 

[Radiogeek99]

Thanks alot!! The frame and canvas is in good condition, but some of the connector pieces on the curved sections are broken. I guess it was not anchored properly and took a ride in the wind.

 

[m816]

That tent doesn't blow away with wind. I lost mine due to excess snow load. When it busted, it broke at the connections. If you need any canvas sections, I saved all the sections. The vynl seemed to hold up better than the canvas sections.I had to scrap all the frame pieces.Too bad, but they just were not repairable. Vinny

 

[Sorsofyas]

Hi I have the same tent that broke blown with the wind, cannot find parts for it. Thinking about welding it but I am afraid taking a risk with magnesium. Any suggestion? Thanks Charlie

 

[MWMULES]

Mine did the same thing in Jan, the only magnesium part is the snapped part and it's supposed to do just that. Knock out the roll pins on one side, pull the pin on the other side, put the 2 hunks back together and trace it out on oak use a band saw to cut them out. Make sure you remember how they came out of the frame, with the oak in the frame drill holes through the wood a tad smaller than the roll pins, then drive them back in and you will be good to go. When you put it back up use 2' stakes on the arch pads and use cable and ground anchors on each arch, don't need a jack hammer to place them. You and I didn't read that part of the manual.
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?119071-Tent-gone-wild!&highlight=

 

[Sorsofyas]

Thanks for the suggestion its a great idea and sorry btw I just got to see you answer. thx again

 

[RodUSMC1962]

That looks like a BIG tent to me!

 

[NEIOWA]

Mine did the same thing in Jan, the only magnesium part is the snapped part and it's supposed to do just that. Knock out the roll pins on one side, pull the pin on the other side, put the 2 hunks back together and trace it out on oak use a band saw to cut them out. Make sure you remember how they came out of the frame, with the oak in the frame drill holes through the wood a tad smaller than the roll pins, then drive them back in and you will be good to go. When you put it back up use 2' stakes on the arch pads and use cable and ground anchors on each arch, View attachment 481800 don't need a jack hammer to place them. You and I didn't read that part of the manual.
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?119071-Tent-gone-wild!&highlight=

How did this plan work out for you? I also had same failure on 2 tents. Broke at the connectors of lower/intermediate segment during a heavy/wet snow freeze/thaw in Feb about 3 yrs ago. We had canvas (not nylon) covers) to which the snow stuck and absorbed water/froze. I think nylon would be much better allowing snow to slide off. Frames were staked but no guylines. I think the guylines are mostly for wind tiedown would keep the frame from flexing/breaking.

Have lots of parts could recycle. Did the oak connectors work out for you? (ALL the frame material is magnesium, pretty sure welding would be a bad idea).

Now faced with setting up a tent for local Emergency Management Agency for trailer storage so want to be smarter than the 1st go around.

 

[MWMULES]

The frame is aluminum only the male slide in part that breaks is Mg, we ended up only doing a couple in Ipe as a friend had some left over from a deck. It turned out to be an all day job to drive the roll pins out to replace with wood. We ended up putting the broken parts back in with lots of epoxy, it only took a little while to figure out which one came from where. I sold it but it is still up and going strong, I used some camo net poles to push up from the inside to get the snow off, also I lucked out and got some vinyl bill boards that I used like flys on the top and the wet snow pretty much slid off of them.

 

[Guyfang]

That tent doesn't blow away with wind. I lost mine due to excess snow load. When it busted, it broke at the connections. If you need any canvas sections, I saved all the sections. The vynl seemed to hold up better than the canvas sections.I had to scrap all the frame pieces.Too bad, but they just were not repairable. Vinny

In 1974, I watched a tent just like this one, but much longer, take off in the wind. It rolled over 6-7 times before it hit the perimeter fence, jumped the fence and proceeded to destroy itself on the Bamberg, Germany Airfield. We had winds in excess of 110 Klicks and hour. AND it was anchored down. AND had a small sand bag wall around it. Never say never.

 

[NATCAD]

hot wind musta got up underneath that german tent, sent it a flying with excess lift!

 

[Guyfang]

When the Mobile home I was sleeping in started to rock back and forth, I bailed out, just in time to see the tent go on its last ride. There was a lot of hot wind going around that night!