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Hi Wiltig

Welcome.

Most cookers will have the rubber orange gas pipe with a regulator on the bottle end. This will then conect to the bottle. The main thing to ask prior to collecting is has the gas pipe got a regulator on? There are different tpes of regulators out there for different types of bottles, ours screws onto the top of the bottle. Someone here may be able to offer more pionters.

Not having a Dandy, We have a Cabanon Neptune, which I do use a small step ladder to help with putting it up, so to speak!

It would be a good idea to put one in the car boot just incase? Make sure it's the last thing to pack though, so you can get to it easy

Good Luck

Craig   

Hello,

The Dandy will come with a gas bottle box which will hold 2 x Calor 4.5Kg cylinders.  Blue for Butane, red for Propane.  Each gas uses its own regulator.  You say 4.5Kg, so I'm guessing it is a Butane?  There will probably already be a regulator in there which screws onto one cylinder (The other cylinder is a spare). 

You'll need a gas spanner, available from any caravan shop: -

The regulator goes onto the rubber hose & fastens with a jubilee clip.  Check the date on the hoses.  They need replacing every few years & the date is printed on them, certainly replace all the rubber hoses if any show signs of any cracks when you bend them.  There is a long rubber hose connecting the hob & possibly another for a 3 way fridge on the right of the kitchen inside the camper.

As for assembly, you'll be fine putting the main camper up using the roof poles as per the instructions, but you may need a step for fixing the top of the awning.  There is a web group for Dandy Owners (free to join & very helpful), as well as an owners club you may wish to join.  There is another useful page HERE.  If you need any spares or repairs Riva Leisure used to make them until last year & are still in business.  The owner, Ian Smith is an absolute gent & will do all he can to help you out. 

Insist on seeing the vendor put the thing up!

Enjoy!

Steve.

Thanks Steve and Craig for your help. It will be interesting to see how this works on Saturday. I am praying for dry weather for my first lesson and stay in the TT. If it rains so what it can only get better from then on! I think you have to be a "no problem" sort of person to do TT camping anyway.

Cheers Jo