I just purchased a James Baroud Explorer tent. It is a great thing, well made, however the styrene smell from the polyester shell is absolutely unbearable. It smells like the tent was cast yesterday. We couldn't sleep inside at all, and I have a high tolerance for such things. I have worked with polyester resins a lot and I know this would need weeks, if not months to disappear. I find it astonishing that they did not cure/heat the resin for the smell to disappear before shipping the tent, as it is unusable, if not outright harmful now. Has anyone else experienced this problem with James Baroud tents? I sent them an e-mail, I am waiting for a reply, but in the meantime if anyone knows a fix (apart from letting the tent sit open in the sun for a month), please share.
