I presume you are talking about the springs which hold the two pieces of a pole together. Yes they are readily available from any camping/caravan shop. Easy to fit and very inexpensive.
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Booked so far:
June: Charity Farm
July: Gullivers MK
August: Tregurrian, Cornwall
Sept: New Forest
There are some holes on the top of the corner uprights that don't have any corresponding holes on the poles that slots into it for a push button.
None of these at all have anything on them so it's a bit hard to guess what they were for, the only thing I could think of is that they might have been for screw clamps.....
Yes I have similar on my FC. There is a screw clamp which goes around the outer pole and the screw goes through the hole to contact the inner pole. Looks like you need some pole clamps.
------------- Phil
Blood, Sweat and Beers.
The more I learn the more I know, the more I know the more I forget, the more I forget the less I know
Booked so far:
June: Charity Farm
July: Gullivers MK
August: Tregurrian, Cornwall
Sept: New Forest
Guess over time previous owners have managed to loose evry single one! All the push buttons were down inside the poles rather than in place as well, a lot easier getting the frame work stable when they are helping retain the poles in position.
Another question (one of many, sorry). Had been told heavy rain was due last night so put the trailer tent part only out on the front lawn, erected it and duly hammered in about a zillion pegs for all the ties downs. The four "feet" were also lowered to level it and there were also 8 guy ropes on it.
Didn't actually have any rain but did have massive winds very early this morning, the sort that walking is hard in. Looked our the windows and few times and all seemed well.
However on closer inspection the entire trailer tent had slewed round a couple of feet on the side that gets the brunt of the windows causing a couple of the plastic retainers on the guy ropes to break and a slight tear next to an eyelet on the ground sheet sort of part of the skirt of the trailer tent as well as the support poles underneath one sleeping platform twisting slightly.
Must say that packing it away in gale force winds was an experience!
What method is best to prevent this happening in the future? It's not a braked trailer so the wheels are free to move.... Would some wheel chocks sort it out or a combination of chocks and leveling blocks?
the only thing we can suggest is that feet are securely on the ground and your corner guy ropes are secured at all points. you can fit two guy ropes on each corner at different angles. hope this helps.
OH of 2pp in a pod
still flying free
Feet were definitely down as there is now a two foot furrow in the lawn were they were pushed along! Maybe I should just be glad it didn't rip itself to shreds as it was a proper blow :)
we camped (main unit only) on a slight hill in high winds. Terrified we would all wake up as we went sailing down the hill into the very expensive caravan in front of us.
I used 4 of these. I hammered them in place with the tent peg mallet then used cable ties to fasten the front and back one together - never moved an inch thank goodness.
Forgot to say, cable ties are a must have accessory - I always have some handy....have used to fix elastic on bedroom pod, all zips have cable ties in the zipper bit (helps close them as they can be a bit stiff and hard to pull at times) and we use them to attach a universal under bed pup tent as the fixings were wrong (c clips for square metal tubing).
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Quote: Originally posted by paulyk74 on 24/2/2014
we camped (main unit only) on a slight hill in high winds. Terrified we would all wake up as we went sailing down the hill into the very expensive caravan in front of us.
I used 4 of these. I hammered them in place with the tent peg mallet then used cable ties to fasten the front and back one together - never moved an inch thank goodness.
Forgot to say, cable ties are a must have accessory - I always have some handy....have used to fix elastic on bedroom pod, all zips have cable ties in the zipper bit (helps close them as they can be a bit stiff and hard to pull at times) and we use them to attach a universal under bed pup tent as the fixings were wrong (c clips for square metal tubing).
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Thanks, those chocks were just the sort of things I was thinking of for those extremely windy days!