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19/9/2009 at 10:04pm
Location: Warrington
Outfit: Diablo 900
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Well, the missus and I have just returned from a great week at Crowsnest, Filey. We just love our Diablo 900 (Not the Diablo 900 XP) Could anyone please tell me the correct lie out of the guy ropes as the instructions are not that clear. We pitched the inner first and made sure that the ground sheet was flat and taught, as per instructions, and checked that all of the zips worked ok. However, once the outer was in place and pegged out the bedroom zips were difficult to operate. I had the bedroom guy ropes in-line with the poles, should these guy ropes be placed towards the back.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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19/9/2009 at 11:03pm
Location: None Entered
Outfit: Vango Diablo 900 and Venture 600DLX
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Hi Phillyn
We had a 900 before we replaced it with an XP and must admit we faced similar problems to you when pitching it and I dont think we had the guys out the same way twice!!
We found eventually that it took some tweaking to get it right once you have the fly sheet on and it is tied to the inner and the guys are out as this seems to change the shape of the poles slightly thus leading to the problems you are experiencing.
Even now with the XP we peg otu the guys and then adjust the poles to ge the bedroom zips right. I am sure this technique will work as well on the normal 900 as it does on the XP.
I would aim to get the guys pulling toward the back of the pods rather than in line with the poles as this seems to create less distortion but you wont be able to do this with the main poles.
Hope this helps
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20/9/2009 at 10:30am
Location: E Yorkshire
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Our pharoah six is the same. I never over tighten the guys, as this pulls the sides out. If the guy lines are tensioned enough to take up the slack, then when the wind blows, this will stop the tent mooving. It,s not like old design tents, where the shape was made by the guy lines. The other solution if you are with the tent, is to slightly slacken the guys on the down wind side of the tent to ease the strain.
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20/9/2009 at 11:22am
Location: Warrington
Outfit: Diablo 900
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Thanks for your advice, will try various angles with the guys, as you suggest. I have contacted Vango to see if they have any ideas, I won't hold my breath though.
Cheers
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23/9/2009 at 9:40pm
Location: South Wales
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We found our problem was tying the outer to the inner too tightly on the underside and not the actual guy ropes on our 600
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24/9/2009 at 5:44pm
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Hi,
we've got the Diablo 600 as far as I'm aware guys should always be put in line with the poles so the forces are pulling the poles onto the ground. Have you checked that fly sheet is tied on exactly in line with the poles as this might distort the shape a bit.
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01/10/2009 at 10:27pm
Location: Poulton le Fylde Lancashire
Outfit: Tent Vango Diablo 900 XP
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Although i agree with ""MOJO 19 and ahhh..fresh..air!"" that the lines should be in line with the poles i do move them when or if the wind changes to o
aford best stability the only way to keep the pod zips free is not to overstretch and pull to tight the inner when setting up and purposely leave slack that will be taken up when tying on and pegging out.
works for me and i dont have any problems any more
apart from the poles
see other thread OMG got my tent poles back
you may find that intreststing
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