home made sun shelter

Hi,
not sure if this is applicable or not in your situation but would a couple of decent solar panels do the trick. Get some shade and also ability to charge up batteries.
Rgds

Bit confused mate. Are you looking to shade the camper that you will be sleeping/camping in or are you looking to shade a roof top tent or similar?
I have a camper body that we sleep and store our gear in and an aluminium decked roof rack that obviously acts as storage space, a mounting spot for our solar panel and shades the camper.
Before I added the ally decking I used to stretch one of those silver reflective tarps over the top. A lot easier not having to do that. The decking doesn't flap in the wind either.

Cheers
Pop

There are other materials than silver tarp...but the price goes up pretty fast.
White marine vinyl is pretty damn good.

But the old silver tarp is cheap and cheerfull...but you must buy well..the realy cheap ones are just rubbish, they don't last long and the eyelets pull out.

I've had a good trot out of the austrail traps.

look for good well reinforced corners and eyelets.

AND the trick is support the edges well and at every eyelet and stretch em tight.. I mean tight.

I got a couple of em up here 24/7/365 and I get about 2 years out of a good one.

The problem with a portable arrangement is making something strong enough to give the tension.



cheers

Hi Mike,

Since you want shade rather than shelter from rain, have you considered using shadecloth - say 75% or higher. You could probably buy something ready-made, or if you have the necessary you could make something yourself.

Cheers,

Val.

Some good ideas here - I'd not thought of the shadecloth though is something to try. Pop - the idea is to provide shade onto the top of a aluminium ute canopy which I sleep on (not in). I've had it with having to find appropriate trees from which to string up a tarp - so am looking to build a pop-up frame & put the tarp/shadecloth on that. It's way too hot to be in a roof-top tent, though use a mozzie dome if need be. Cheers.

Hey Cyber
I make shadesails and do canvas work for a crust.
My advice would be to get 90 % shadecloth and form that on yer roof shade cloth is light weight dont crackle and rattle in the wind and the material these days is pretty strong
Go to a shade sail manufacturer they will have pieces of higher quality they may sell you
I would consider 70% material as a wall, stop flies and mozy s and will breath