Do you recommend using WD40 or any lubricant on the hinges etc? Would like to set up by myself and it seems to need 2 people to set up (1 person to hold while other expands the frame out)
lubricant may help you slide things easier slightly. but its all in the technique how you open the tent. i open mine by myself all the time because i make sure only one leg is touching the ground while expanding the tent. if the other legs are touching the ground, it creates unnecessary friction and its harder to open.
Hello Heidi, do you have the same style of pop up tent that I have in this video? I talk about the middle tent peg problems at 1:07. The square was stuck inside the top and not able to be freed unless you lined up the square through the hole manually. If this is not what you are asking, could you be a bit more specific
Just set my gazebo up, but the silver ball on 1 leg isn't visible. It was when I started, but I can't see it in the hole anymore. This is the ball that locks one corner of the roof in place. Any ideas on how to fix it? One of the roof supports sags now.
sounds like you have a different type of tent than i do here. mine is spring activated peak pole. perhaps you can pull the pole out of its poke socket and see whats going on wrong with the tightening mechanism. perhaps just shoving a stick permanently in the socket which hosts the peak will help you to make the peak at the height you want.
perhaps where you bought the tent gave you a defective top with stitching too tight. a fix here would be to pull the peak pole out of the socket of the top of your tent. then take a metal cutting tool such as a hacksaw, or angle grinder and chop off a little bit of the pole. this should shorten the top peak of your tent just enough to help you lock the four corners into place :)
Oh darn! Well all hope is not lost. You can perhaps disconnect your entire leg, then take a loooonng skinny pole and try to get that pin to come back out the hole. Otherwise just buy a replacement leg from the supplier of the tent you got it from
@@traceymayberry996 No I didn't it was too much trouble. So I used a long screw🔩 I would open the tent then pop the screw in the whole. When I take it down I just take the screw out
Connor explained in the comment below. You could replace the leg entirely, or you could detach the leg, then shove a long skinny pole from the opposite direction to bring that silver ball back to the right spot. I’d be careful not to let that happen again!
I came into the problem of the push button the the leg of the frame was stuck in like you have at the begining of your video, but the button it self actually slid down i to the leg maybe a quarter inch. Time for a new leg?
