- Hi, Kevin from Snowys Outdoors here,
and I'm gonna show you how to set up the,
Aerobase three Pro Air Shelter from Zempire
and also how to deflate it and pack it away.
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I think the air shelters are very easy to set up,
they have air poles with their own pump
that help inflate them
and it comes with four brow poles that help keep it's shape.
And also it makes it more stable.
Now the weight of this shelter is about seven,
eight and a half kilos.
It is 37 centimetres across it and 34 centimetres high
and that's about 74 centimetres long.
Comes in a nice durable bag.
Got these D-rings on here that helps pull it all together.
(birds chirping) Just open that up.
See they can be a little bit fiddly
but they hold really well.
And of course, I've got some zippers up at the top here,
(zipper gliding) all the way down,
around to the base at the bottom of the bag.
Let's have a look see what we've got inside.
Now in the bag you have your set of instructions,
sown in there so shouldn't be able to lose them.
Need to read those carefully,
when you're actually setting this up,
make sure you understand it all,
you also have a set of poles,
what they call brow poles they go across the openings.
You've got your pegs that include sand pegs
as well as steel pegs
and there's guy ropes in there as well.
Now this is a wall,
with this shelter you get a sun wall which goes on one end.
You can actually buy extra walls as accessories.
You have your main shelter,
which is this one here and of course,
you've got your pump that you use for pumping it up.
And of course you have some fittings here.
Now, one is a Valve one is a pressure gauge.
You need to be aware of what pressure it goes up to.
So the pressure gauge goes onto the valve
and the valve goes into the top of the pump.
And that is where you would attach your hose to,
when you're ready to pump it up.
Okay so first of all we need to lay it out.
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Now there's no orientation to this.
It doesn't matter which way you face it,
there's no front or back.
Now as you can see there's these straps
that actually go on the ground.
So when you roll it out initially,
the thing is actually upside down.
So what we'll do we'll just flip that over
and that's pretty easily done.
This is something that would be a lot easier
if two people are doing just take a bit less time.
So now it's starting to get a bit of a breeze up today.
As you can see the things trying to take off on us.
So very important one of the first things you do,
is to peg down all the corners of the shelter.
So you can see on the end of the leg there is a D-ring,
just put the tent peg in that.
Once again, we've got nice soft ground so it goes in easy
and you've gotta do it on every corner.
Make sure you stretch it out as you go,
see I'm getting these straps nice and tight and firm.
That helps to keep it shape.
Legs can be a little bit twisted,
so just make sure they're correct.
You see I'll just pull that nice and tight.
Not overly tight just nice and firm
and there it is pegged down.
Now once you've got your peg in make sure it's square
because if it's skewed the wall
that you get with it won't go on up properly.
Now you've got to boston valves one on adjacent legs.
Boston valve is a valve that allows you to put air in
and it won't let it out to escape.
You can see a little flap in there.
So that screws into the outer sleave.
Make sure it's nice and tight if it leaks it'll go down.
And of course that's an outside cap,
and I'll show you when I'm on the other valve
and I pump it up.
Make sure both those caps are nice and tight.
Right, so lets pump it up.
We'll head over do the other one.
This is the Boston valve this end once again,
make sure the bottom valve is tight.
Open up the cap you can see that's now open
and we'll get our pump.
And that screws straight on top of the boston valve,
Nice and tight like that.
Now there's two of these as I said,
you really only need to attach it to one to pump this up.
Now this pump is a dual action pump.
You have a little lever just there,
which means you can actually pump while it's drawing up
and down or if you want to you can flip it over,
(air whooshing)
so it sucks air in and only pumps on the downward stroke.
I'm gonna use it on a dual thing,
so it gives me a bit of speed.
Now it's just a matter of pumping the air tent up.
(air whooshing)
You get exercise doing this.
Sometimes you gotta stop and just give it a little bit
of a lift, help it get it into it's shape.
This is be good if you had two people
then one person can help hold it up
and keep it into it's shape quicker.
Okay, we are up around six PSI now.
It's getting almost there I'd say it's taking shape.
We can put a bit more pressure into it.
Recommend up to seven and then up to nine.
Okay, so we've reached about seven PSI,
then you gotta put the brow poles in.
Now I've got three of them already assembled.
They're very easy to put together,
they've got a little bungee cord inside it as you can see,
they just all assemble themselves quite nicely.
I've got other three of them already laid out
around so I can easily put them in.
Now let's whack a couple of them in.
These go inside so there's a little pocket in here
that's been stitched in.
The end of the Pole goes into that pocket.
And then we go up to the other side.
Give that a bit of a push.
Then push it into little pocket on that end.
And then we push the pole up,
a little bit of Velcro up there holds the pole into place.
And then we do the other three.
(material rustling)
See it only takes a couple of the poles
and that's already taking shape.
And our final Pole.
Okay, now you'll see
that there's actually three little Velcro tabs on each wall.
This keeps the brow pole in place.
Now there's those three Velcro tabs on each wall
and they all need to be done up.
So the tent doesn't move around
because it is much more stable now
that it's got those brow poles in.
If I draw your attention to just here,
the configuration of these poles.
You can say that the brow pole goes across to the slot
on the next wall it doesn't go on this wall,
it goes onto the next wall.
And this brow pole does exactly the same.
So you have this crossover just here that's very important
because the brow poles just won't fit otherwise.
So I'll go and put the rest of the tabs on.
So once you've got those Velcro's on.
Just wanna draw your attention to the straps.
Now these are locating straps.
They're there to ensure that you don't have the pegs,
the legs pegged out too wide.
They are a bit of a tripping hazard.
So what we do is we unclip them,
they can unclip on one end on each one.
Now these can come off just roll them up,
Pop it in the sleave on the corner.
Do the same with the one across the middle,
you can take all four straps off and put them
in out of the way.
That way no one has a nasty trip.
We can do that on all the four straps.
I'll do those a bit later.
So all we gotta do now is put the wall on.
Now the shelter comes with one wall as part of the package,
you can purchase extra walls as accessories,
which you can do at a later time if you want to.
So they zip on so we start one end here,
Double zipper, all the way in and just start zipping it up.
(zipper gliding)
Now as you zip it up notice
that there's actually an inside and outside of the wall.
This has a fly mesh on it as well and I'll show you
that in a second. (zipper gliding)
So now, there is an inside and outside of the wall.
Inside it's very easy to see,
you've got these zippers on the inside.
(zipper gliding)
If you unzip them, (zipper gliding)
you see you have a nice big fly screen there.
So you can actually have this open let the breeze through.
Or if it's a bit draughty you can actually zip
that back up again and keep the wind out.
Now, when you put the wall on,
as you're getting down the end here,
you may find that it's getting a bit tight.
If that's the case you may have to unpeg your leg
and move it out or move it in,
depending on which way so that you get a nice,
neat fit, just like that.
And of course if you want to you can also peg them down
and keep it from flapping away.
You got loops along the bottom of the wall as well.
That also helps it stop flapping.
Now of course you have to peg down all four corners
on each wall,
at the end of the wall there's a little loop
and you can peg that down like that.
And that has to be done on the other end
and around the corner here and all the four walls.
You also get these, now these are a sand peg,
of course these things might go down
to a beach or somewhere.
These are very handy for putting in the sand.
They don't pull out so easily and you get a set
of those with it as well.
It is also very,
very important to put down a guy rope,
a peg in the guy rope,
as you can see these are supporting the centre on both ends.
They've got one guy rope.
So that would stretch out and be pegged down out here.
And once again very important that those go on,
these things take off in a stiff wind,
they can really cause some damage.
So they are quite safe so long as they well
and surely pegged down very, very important.
So that's all that is to erecting the,
Aerobase three pro air shelter.
Now I'm gonna show you how to deflate it
and how to pack it away. (zipper gliding)
First of all we need obviously remove the wall
from the side of the shelter.
Because we had to remove the straps to stop
from tripping over.
We now have to put them back on again.
This will help you locate the pegs,
the poles next time you assembled the shelter.
Back on and we put the cross one on as well.
Now we take out the brow poles next
and undo the valcro tabs.
Pull down out of their slots
and these are very easy to fold up.
Just like a lot of poles these days.
(poles clinging)
Okay, other side do the same with the other four walls.
So we gotta take out all of the pegs except the corner pegs,
which is these ones just here,
they're the last thing to come out.
Also any of the guy ropes that have been are still attached,
make sure undo all of those as well.
Now to deflate the shelter we'll go over to the boston valve
and we slowly unscrew it.
And you'll hear it starting to leak air out
and it will come out with a rush in a minute.
(air whooshing)
And down she goes.
So now that that's out we need
to undo the other boston valve as well
that'll allow the air to escape from this tube.
'Cause when we roll it up,
we gotta squash all the air out of it.
This is where we can now take out the corner pegs.
So all four pegs come out from the corners.
Okay, so we lie the bag down up here
and this gives us a good idea of the size the shelter has
to be when it folds up.
Now we're gonna start rolling from the other end,
so that when we roll it all the air is pushed out
of those boston valves.
But first of all we fold the sides over.
(material rustling)
I've had a bit of a,
We'll just make sure they're all folded over nice and neat.
It's a little ungainly 'cause you've got the four legs,
can be a bit awkward looking.
After a bit of juggling to get it into the right shape,
try and get it into a shape that's about the same size
as that bag.
Make it a lot easier to get it in.
Let me start rolling,
as I'm rolling this way I'm pushing the air out
of those tubes.
So it's quite important to make sure everything's neat
and tidy, otherwise it bunches up and it makes it very hard
to get back into the bag.
So we've got a couple of straps here.
These are what tied around the tent when we took it out,
I need to put them back around the tent again.
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Sit that on top of that bag.
So you've got the whole thing back in the bag.
You've got your wall,
got the pump,
got the poles down there.
Of course your pegs down there as well.
Lets get that zipper started. (zipper gliding)
Okay, so they're all back in it's bag.
I still have a couple of straps here.
You can put across if you wanna to tie it up.
That's all I've got for now
on the Aerobase three air shelter from Zempire.
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