Tensioning of Gabled End Panel: (See Below)
(If you are installing a 40’ or 50’ span, see appendix page “X-3” on end center bars before
tensioning the gabled end.) For 30’ and 60’ spans, proceed as follows:
1. Tension the gabled end using standard ratchet hooked into baseplate adapter bar at each side of
the structure. Tension each side evenly, so as not to draw the gabled end panel off center (See
peak of beam). Tension until the kedar bottoms out against the baseplate. Otherwise, the wing
wall will not fit properly.
2. To each end upright, attach a 1” web & winch strap (packed with the gabled end panel) by hooking
top of strap into metal ring of the catenary fabric arch and the bottom into the hole provided on
outside facing of each aluminum upright. Ratchet the winch handle until catenary arch is drawn
tight.
Customizing the Gabled End Panel as an Internal Partition.
Note: The Gabled End feeds into the Liner or Inner beam channel. It is designed with a grommet line
on the inside surface of it’s kedar tails. The wing eave walls lace to this grommet line (see page 21).
If the Gabled End is installed onto the second beam of the structure to form a recessed end (portico),
or if it is installed on a middle beam as an internal partition, it must be customized with special
grommet lines to accommodate the lacing of adjacent middle walls, which would otherwise also use
the liner channel. It is intended that the portico area of the recessed end will be cross-cabled and
have no middle walls.
Tensioning Gabled End Panel
Hook top of 1” web into
ring on fabric
Ratchet tightens catenary of Gabled
End Panel at each upright
Bottom of 1” web hooks into hole in
end upright
Place Slot of Eave Wall Ground Bar over drilled rod on
adapter bar here. (lock in place with #10 hair pin cotter)
Ratchet Hooks to hole in Baseplate Adapter Bar.
(Installed onto baseplate with a bent arm pin.)
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