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Topic: Gelert Olympus 8- porch??

Minxz

07/6/2011 at 2:30pm
Location: Surrey
Outfit: Gelert Olympus 8 our new baby!

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I wonder if any of you can help!
With father's day approaching, the OH really, really wants a porch for our tent to cook in, so i thought I'd try to be cheeky and give it as a present

But, we have an Olypus 8, with skylight, and all the gelert have that is remotely near are the Horizon porches. Has anyone tried using a Horizon porch on an Olympus tent?

apparently the porch was due to be on sale in March, but I can't find it anywhere!

Thank you in advance xxx

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DianeandPaul

08/6/2011 at 5:52pm
Location: Lincolnshire
Outfit: Conway Miami DL TT

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Hi Mixz, we have the gelert olympus 8, we have also got the vector canopy, although it does cover the sky light it did not bother us, although i will say that after about half hour of it being up 1 of the guy lines did break. We took it back and the place has agreed to repair it free of charge with stronger stuff. I have some pics of it with the tent on my page.

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acwinterburn

06/7/2011 at 11:08am
Location: None Entered
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Hey there, how big is the canopy ? I have seen your pics and noticed the tapaulin on the ground, just wondering what size would be needed for the ground sheet?

DianeandPaul

06/7/2011 at 10:37pm
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OH says 2 x 2 should be big enough. Not sure on the size of the canopy though, but we could fit 2 chairs and the kitchen under it and still have plenty of room. Im really pleased with it and hopefully it will be ok next time we use it as we had to have it repaired as 1 of they guy lines at the back snapped off, but i would recommend the canopy

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cwdprice

04/8/2011 at 10:52pm
Location: shrewsbury
Outfit: Outwell Magic 5 man

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i also brought a Vector canopy for my olympus 8 tent and it is a perfic fit .But i have a problem one of the end guy ropes off the top end of my tent has rip compleatly off where the tab that the rope fixes to the tent . Can any one recomend how i can repair this

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05/8/2011 at 9:09am
Location: Aston Clinton
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If there is still material left to refix it to you could use one of these

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DianeandPaul

06/8/2011 at 8:31am
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Hi Chris, that was the problem we had with ours, it happened the 1st time we used it with in half an hour. Not happy with it we took it back to where we had bought it and they told us that we could either replace it or they could repair it for us with stronger ends. They told us that it had happened to a few so I am asuming this is a manufactring fault with the canopy. We decided to go with getting it repaired as we liked having the canopy. Hope this helps in some way

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