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Personscrumble
20/4/2010 at 1:29am
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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 14/2/2010
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The second time I struggled to get the pin into the bottom of one of the steel poles even with the strap loosened right off. For some reason the tent wouldn't sit equally on the steel poles...the pole sleeves were more over to one side than the other and I can only assume this was due to the slope of the pitch (as well as my inexperience with this tent and steel poles). Eventually, and in order to get the pin in the pole, I had to leave the flysheet slightly off centre. Might have been better if the pole pins were on adjustable straps on both sides of the tent rather than just one. You could adjust the fly position on the poles better then. Perhaps I'm just a bit of a perfectionist




I think it's a feature ;-)

We've just got a Minnesota 4, which has 3 sets of the steel poles, Only had it up in the garden, but I found that to get the second pin in the end of the pole you needed to pull the fly over as far as you can really, this seems to end up with the fly offset to one side, no matter how you try to centre it.

This is my first experience of pitching a steel poled Outwell. Though I do remember some friends of ours a couple of years ago pitching their Vermont for the first time and have the same issue, not sure if it still does it or they ahve worked out how to sort it.


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PersonBob61
20/4/2010 at 11:26am
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I've given up trying to get it centralised now, Scrumble. Just bung it up and let it do it's own thing. Doesn't seem to cause any problems apart from wind getting underneath the groundsheet on the higher side. I hope to solve that (when I get round to it) by getting some clingons and fixing extra pegging points to the bottom of the flysheet to hold it closer to the ground.


Personkathrinak
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Thanks very muc, here is hoping it fits on the other side as well.....



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