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 Topic: Hypercamp tent - how to put it up?
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09/6/2013 at 8:43pm
Location: Hawarden
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Welcome to UKCS, hope this helps.
I've recently bought the Texel & I'm really pleased with it.
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09/6/2013 at 9:49pm
Location: Devizes Wiltshire
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As far as I can make out from the pics, it is a ring and pin job.
Assemble the poles, two should be the same length and longer than the third pole.
Thread the two long poles diagonally through their sleeves first. With luck they are colour-coded.
Push the pin at one end of the pole for one side of the tent, walk across to the other side and do the same, and the dome will form due to the tension in the straps.
Repeat with the front pole, i.e. push the pin in one end, then the other end.
Adjust tensions in the straps, and complete guying the tent into shape.
That's how I would do it with my Vango Delta 300+ which has a porch pole at both ends, and not just one in the London 3.
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If the pics in the link are of your tent then inner tent goes in last, you pitch the flysheet, ie outer tent first. The pics explain it, lay out flysheet & then thread the poles through. After that its easy to work out & it is easier with 2 people but you can do it alone.
Locate pole in ring at corner of tent then curve the pole & locate into ring at opposite corner, it is difficult & you have to be fairly firm with it. Once up then hang inner tent inside. Poles are colour coded because the 2 main ones are longer than the one at the front.
When curving the poles you have to try to bend the whole pole evenly in one go, if you see what I mean. Detailed instructions could not tell you any more than that. Its all in the technique, it comes with practise.
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