Clamp Installation Tips
GenTent® Clamp Installation Tips
The GenTent® clamps are carefully engineered and then produced with high quality
materials and are meant to provide long lasting, strong performance. The following tips
should prove helpful to ensure this long lasting performance and further simplify your
installation!
Tip 1: Ensure bolt is flush to clamp before tightening
Please take a look at this picture. The bolt on the
clamp at the top of the pic is set improperly; you
will notice that the head of the bolt is not flush to
the clamp surface. This is because the square
part of the bolt is not set into the square hole of
the clamp body. During testing we are able to
create this situation relatively easily. Should it
be tightened like this, the focused pressure that
the corners of the square head cause on the
clamp surface can cause the clamp to break. It
may or may not break right away.
The bolt on the clamp at the bottom of the pic is
set properly and the head is flush. When you
tighten the carriage bolt in this position, the
clamping force is spread across the head and
creates the correct clamping action.
Please check to see that the carriage bolt is flush to the clamp before tightening! If you
have already installed your GenTent, please double check that the carriage bolts are flush.
Tip 2: Push the clamp onto the frame
As shown in the main GenTent installation video (about 1 minute into this video
http://www.gentent.com/basicinstall ), the best technique for getting the clamp onto the
frame is the push technique:
- If using the rubber adapter, put the adapter onto the frame
- Loosen the knob almost to the end
- Position the clamp opening onto the frame, below the rubber adapter with the clamp
edges directly contacting the frame
- Push the clamp directly over the frame
- Carefully stretch the opening of the clamp and slide it up to the top of the rubber
adapter
Avoid pulling the opening of the clamp outwards to get it around the frame tube. Pulling
the clamp beyond its limits (about 2 ¼”) can cause the clamp to break. As always, please
read all instructions and watch our videos at www.gentent.com/installation