We have the Edoras 600XL too, and have a slight 'kink' in the back (bedroom) beam too. It's a small bend, about 900mm off the ground. Not a problem, but noticeable different to the other beams, which don't have a bend.
I assume it's simply a packing twist, which can be rectified by Gary's tip...
Thought I had a twisted beam as it was pushing backwards on one side took it out all the way to the plastic tube and somehow managed to get both side pushing backwards( but no twist on the tube) currently waiting for a new beam, but the good news was that the tent still stood up to the wind and rain
We also have a misshaped beam in our Kampa Hayling. Garys video helped a bit as did this Kampa video but it is still not as straight as the other beams. OH says I'm too fussy!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PU-LXhcNDk
Hmm, you might need to copy and paste this link thing to get it to work. Sorry, not very technically minded.
Weather didn't hold out over the weekend so never managed to get it out, so to speak!
As reported earlier the bedroom beam which was the same as the others has after three pitches/pack-aways developed a kink best described as the top (above and between the two upper bends) leaning towards the other beams resulting in the roof sagging between the bedroom beam and the next beam.
Hopefully I can try again this coming weekend and will update
Our Vango Edoras 500XL had a faulty tube and save having to return the whole tent Vango provided a replacement tube.
As the replacement tube comes flat with corresponding creases down its full length, once you've seated the valve through its opening in the protective sleeve, there is a risk, once the length of the tube has been placed in the protective sleeve, that when inflated the valve will be pulled out of position.
The solution was to partially inflate the tube, seat the valve correctly, and then rotate the tube along its whole length, contra to the way it wants to sit in the sleeve due to it coming flat and with very pronounced folds. Once in the correct position, we than fully inflated the tube, checking that the valve remained in its correct position and there were no other kinks or twists. We then left it for a while so the inner tube could effectively 'work against' the folds it comes out of the factory with, and establish its true shape and position in the sleeve.
I hope this makes sense? Really needs a digram as trying to explain this in words isn't that straightforward.
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Topic: Twisted airbeam
thanks for the info/advice. If the weather holds out today West London area I will pitch it up and take a look.
