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11/11/2012 at 5:26pm
 Location: northeast
 Outfit: beyond 8 icarus 500 carolina s
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Quote: Originally posted by tentfluff on 27/10/2012

£80 aero airbed that only are any good if you don't use them. We had two aero's the first was exchanged for a new one as it failed first use. The second one had two new valves as the matress only has a one year guarantee but the valves have two!!!. 

Anybody want to buy a areobed active pump, It only pumps up an areobed,  only four weeks used.


you can get a plastic adapter to fit your areo bed pump that will allow you to inflate any airbed.mine came with the  pump when i bought my areobed but i have seen them on there website.   


11/11/2012 at 7:20pm
 Location: nottinghamshire
 Outfit: Vango Monte Verde 900 Diablo 900
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Quote: Originally posted by taxi paul on 11/11/2012
Vango windbreakers. My wife wanted has they matched the tent, and our perfectly good stripes ones never. Totally useless, that have about four inch spike to go in ground and a load of guide wires needed to keep them remotely vertical. They now live on a shelf in the shed.



Taxi paul. I have 2 vango windbreaks and dont have a problem with them. Would you be willing to sell them?


11/11/2012 at 7:48pm
 Location: aregate
 Outfit: boots wheelbarrow
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Quote: Originally posted by taxi paul on 11/11/2012


Vango windbreakers. My wife wanted has they matched the tent, and our perfectly good stripes ones never. Totally useless, that have about four inch spike to go in ground and a load of guide wires needed to keep them remotely vertical. They now live on a shelf in the shed.




 i ve got  Vango windbreakers. there the best ive ever had



11/11/2012 at 10:04pm
 Location: colchester
 Outfit: Bell tent NR7 kitchen
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Quote: Originally posted by rsp2 on 11/11/2012
Quote: Originally posted by tentfluff on 27/10/2012

£80 aero airbed that only are any good if you don't use them. We had two aero's the first was exchanged for a new one as it failed first use. The second one had two new valves as the matress only has a one year guarantee but the valves have two!!!. 

Anybody want to buy a areobed active pump, It only pumps up an areobed,  only four weeks used.


you can get a plastic adapter to fit your areo bed pump that will allow you to inflate any airbed.mine came with the  pump when i bought my areobed but i have seen them on there website.   

 Have given my aero pump to hankakampa hope they have better luck with aero beds IMO they are a good idea badly made and very over priced.


12/11/2012 at 11:06am
 Location: Aberdeenshire
 Outfit: Several tents and a hammock
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Camping item that was a waste of money: a cheap mallet from Tesco. The head flew off before the tent was even pitched!

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12/11/2012 at 2:38pm
 Location: merseyside
 Outfit: Adria forma 610 c
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I am sorry for my mistake. The windbreaks I have are outwell ones and not vango. I have had vango on the brain because have been looking for a vango Midas for my brother. Anyway sorry all bit my mistake, there still useless has when using them for my one and only time I came up against a bit of firm ground, hit them with mallet and the little four inch spike on bottom of pole dissapeared ino the pole..


12/11/2012 at 2:54pm
 Location: OLDHAM
 Outfit: KYHAM XXL Sterling Eccles Emerald
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Clip-on parasol for a chair in a bag.  Spent most of the time picking the chair up as every time you stood up chair fell over. Except the time the wind got up while I was making a brew.  A slight breeze was enough to send it bowling down the field.  Not easy to  catch with a brew in one hand and a jam butty in the other.

I am pleased to say that clip on parasols are still available,  for the heavy weight folders and recliners, not the light weight chair in a bag. 



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12/11/2012 at 5:50pm
 Location: High Wycombe
 Outfit: Montana Lake and Icarus 500
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Quote: Originally posted by tentfluff on 11/11/2012
Quote: Originally posted by rsp2 on 11/11/2012
Quote: Originally posted by tentfluff on 27/10/2012

£80 aero airbed that only are any good if you don't use them. We had two aero's the first was exchanged for a new one as it failed first use. The second one had two new valves as the matress only has a one year guarantee but the valves have two!!!. 

Anybody want to buy a areobed active pump, It only pumps up an areobed,  only four weeks used.


you can get a plastic adapter to fit your areo bed pump that will allow you to inflate any airbed.mine came with the  pump when i bought my areobed but i have seen them on there website.   
 Have given my aero pump to hankakampa hope they have better luck with aero beds IMO they are a good idea badly made and very over priced.




I love our Aerobed, only use it at mothers but the pump is built in



12/11/2012 at 5:57pm
 Location: colchester
 Outfit: Bell tent NR7 kitchen
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Quote: Originally posted by masekwm on 12/11/2012
Quote: Originally posted by tentfluff on 11/11/2012
Quote: Originally posted by rsp2 on 11/11/2012
Quote: Originally posted by tentfluff on 27/10/2012

£80 aero airbed that only are any good if you don't use them. We had two aero's the first was exchanged for a new one as it failed first use. The second one had two new valves as the matress only has a one year guarantee but the valves have two!!!. 

Anybody want to buy a areobed active pump, It only pumps up an areobed,  only four weeks used.


you can get a plastic adapter to fit your areo bed pump that will allow you to inflate any airbed.mine came with the  pump when i bought my areobed but i have seen them on there website.   
 Have given my aero pump to hankakampa hope they have better luck with aero beds IMO they are a good idea badly made and very over priced.




I love our Aerobed, only use it at mothers but the pump is built in


Not all areobeds have thye same pump. Yours sounds like it could have a 240v pump fitted, ours was a rechargable twist fit type 


14/11/2012 at 1:47pm
 Location: darlington
 Outfit: nevada m
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You have to purchace these things to see if people are telling the truth.lol

pyramid toaster

collapsible water carrier

They were  so right.  roll on next year, merry xmas to one and all campers

 

 

 

 

 



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15/11/2012 at 1:16am
 Location: Newcastle
 Outfit: Swift Conqueror 640 SAL Mk2 Shogun
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Travel ironing board and iron.  I was lucky I wasn't crowned with them.

However, they are still under one of the seats, 'just in case'!



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16/11/2012 at 7:54pm
 Location: Northumberland
 Outfit: Coleman Bi Space 400 500 and 700
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Giant double-action hand pump for inflating airbeds. It immediately caused a twanged muscle in my back, and it takes up loads of room (well, I should have known that in advance. It's giant ) We now use a noisy electric pump that plugs into the car's lighter socket.

 

Little UFO light from a pound shop. The switch failed almost immediately. When will I learn that it pays to buy quality stuff?

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16/11/2012 at 7:59pm
 Location: Aston Clinton
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*taxi paul* If you want to sell your Outwell windbreaks you have a buyer here


16/11/2012 at 9:12pm
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Thanks for asking but I have put my caravan on a seasonal pitch for next year and I may give them a chance to redeem themselves.


18/11/2012 at 2:01pm
 Location: Denmark
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A collapsible water carrier that gave off a terrible smell and taste, windup torches and lanterns, cheap SIMS that were too thin, cheap airbed that breathed it's last breath (out) in the first night, cheap double action handpump that only worked "single", collapsible camping table that collapsed when you put more than one plate on it...
You get what you pay for...

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Proud owner of a 1987 Sprite Alpine 370 EK, a cheap popup tent and a beloved retro Trio frame tent from the early seventies, called Giraffen.



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