- Ben from Snowys here, folks,
showing you how to set-up
and pack away the Coleman Instant Swagger
three person tent with Darkroom technology.
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This has got an instant-up frame for easy setup.
You can use it with or without the fly,
and offers a nice sturdy shelter for up to three people.
So this is how the swagger three P
with darkroom technology comes when you buy it.
The bag, well, it comes in this bag
measures about 120 centimetres in length
and it's about 23 centimetres
in a square sort of size on the ends there.
Lots of room in the bag for you
'cos it's packed up from the factory at the moment.
When you pack this up again,
it'll take up a bit of extra space in the bag.
Now, it weighs around about 10 kilos with everything inside.
I'll start by showing you what comes inside the bag.
Yeah, so pretty straight forward.
All of this is rolled up inside itself,
secured with just a couple of nylon straps here.
We've got the main inner portion of the tent.
This has got the frame
and the inner all wrapped up together as one.
This is the fly sheet here
which has got that Darkroom technology on it.
And you get a couple of extra bags here.
This has got a couple of awning poles
which we'll show you where they get used shortly,
and a bag of just basic pegs,
and some guy ropes there as well.
And oh, there is also just a little repair kit.
So a few extra bits of fabric and stuff
and some warranty information.
So you can patch up any damage.
These are just lightweight pegs.
Would also always benefit
of updating or upgrading this with a handful,
maybe four or six heavy duty pegs
that you can use on the guy ropes
on the main peg points on the ground.
Especially if you using it in soft ground,
or in particularly bad weather.
Now, first thing we need to do to set it up
is spread the inner out
and peg the four corners in place.
Okay, so I've got the tent oriented
how want it here at the moment,
it's made up of a ridge pole here
and two angled poles at the ends.
And you can see we've got a doorway here.
There's just one doorway
that I'm gonna have facing that way.
So the next step for me now is to grab four pegs
and peg the four corners in place.
I like to do that
regardless of the weather
in case the wind picks up
and, sort of, takes it across the camp site.
If you've got it pegged down
you're not gonna damage the tent.
You might need to adjust that again afterwards
but I've just sort of pegged them loosely at the moment
but I know it's secure to the ground.
Now, I had a bit of a play around,
I think it's actually easiest
to extend this centre pole first.
So, come to the middle here and extend this out.
You've got a little locking point here.
So this end extends outside,
or, within the inside of this end here.
Pull this until
the little silver button appears
and locks into place there.
Then we come around to the end of the tent
and we can extend these poles on each side.
Don't force them,
they should just slide into place comfortably.
That's locked in! That's locked in!
We do the same on the other end
and that's the inner tent as good as set up.
So now I've got the poles extended,
the pegs sort of need a little bit of adjusting here.
So I'm just gonna pull this one out
and just pull it tight.
Put that back in place
so that it's nice and taught across the front here.
Now that's the inner set up
and you can actually use it like this
Coleman have actually incorporated guy ropes
on the inner tent of the Swagger.
Traditionally their Instant-Up series have always
said to use the fly sheet all the time
because there's no guy ropes on the inner tent.
The fly sheet has guy ropes
which create stability for the tent.
In this instance, you don't have to have the fly sheet on.
You can just use these guy ropes,
peg this out for stability.
So if it's a warm night,
you don't want that extra layer,
you could just use it as it is.
What I'm gonna do now though,
is throw the fly over the top.
So the first thing I wanna do is orient the fly
so that we've got the doorway
and the awning at the front here.
Now I know the front of the tent,
or the doorway of the tent is this side here.
We've got the Darkroom logo and the Coleman logo here.
There's a zipper.
With an eyelet in it that runs up here,
and then about another sort of metre and a bit
across from that there's another zipper.
So this section of the fly here is the part
that's gonna sit in front of this door.
So, I can throw the back of it over
and then once you throw it on,
just be aware there are little tabs,
these here, Velcro tabs,
these go around the frame of the tent
to secure the fly to the frame.
So we just need to make sure we reach up underneath
and secure these around these poles on the end here.
So let's throw it over and get it on.
Okay. So we've got the fly in place, now.
We've got the door, or windows at the end here.
We can reach up underneath here
and find those little tabs
and secure these around the pole.
And then at the bottom of the pole
the bottom of the tent here,
there's a little plastic hook
which just secures to the plastic D-ring
on each of the feet of the tent here.
Now I did actually just notice
after putting this on
that in terms of orienting the fly
Coleman have incorporated a red tab on this corner
which lines up with a red tab on this corner here.
So, don't worry about looking for the doorway,
just line up red with red.
Now, from here, we can go around
and put pegs in around the base.
There's one peg at the rear here
and a couple of pegs at the front
just to hold this vestibule in place.
And we've also got the guy ropes
on each end of the fly here,
so two here and two at the other end.
So that's the Swagger set up if this is how you use it
if it was really bad weather
and you want to stay nice and dry.
But you've got a few other options for setup.
Firstly, at each end
you've got these windows here,
keep it closed if it's a really wet night.
Alternatively, if it is a cool night,
and you want extra ventilation,
or you need to just roll it up for ventilation
on a warm night, you can roll these up like this.
And that looks through
to another mesh window on the inner there.
So you've got ventilation at each end of the tent.
They do also have little guy ropes attached to them
so you can set them up,
sort of peg this out like this
so that you've got a bit of a weather protected awning
over the top of the window here.
So for this just light rain
this is gonna allow ventilation underneath
and keep the rain out from the window.
And you've got one of these at each end.
There's also a vent at the base at the rear
which you can adjust from the inside
but that's what the extra peg
of the rear is
just to pull the fly out a little bit
and allow a bit more ventilation at the ground level.
And the last option for setup is the awning
at the front here for which
we use the included poles.
So two poles here, which are connected
by spring loaded cable there.
Just put them together.
There's a hook at the top that will go through the eyelets
in the corners of the awning here.
Put both of those together
and get some of the guy ropes ready.
There's two extra guy ropes to come with your kit.
Tie some loops to the end of these.
And we can use these in combination
with these poles and the pegs to set this up
as a weather protected awning out the front here.
So that's the awning set up as a weather protected entrance.
These awning poles do have a little loop over the top
which is kind of cool just to help stop
the guy rope from flipping up over the top.
Just adds a bit more security.
So that adds, as I mentioned,
a weather a protected entrance into here.
A bit of a shade, if you like,
depending on which way the sun's coming
or a bit of rain protection
but you can also roll this back up against the tent here.
It's got a couple of tabs here, so you can roll it up.
Keep it out the way.
So you can leave this door open for ventilation.
It's a double door there.
You can see you've got this, sort of, storage space here.
If this was zipped down.
You can just leave this zipped down
for storage there as well.
That's how you set up
the Coleman Instant Swagger three P with Darkroom.
Pretty easy, set it up by myself.
A nice, neat, secure little tent pack up just as easy.
Everything in reverse.
I'll start by just taking all the pegs out
and collapsing some down the awning at the front here.
Now, I've taken the pegs out from the fly
but I've left the pegs in the four corners
of the main inner tent here for now
just so that it's secure to the ground
in case any wind picks up,
it reduces the risk of any damage.
So under these clips on the corners
of each of the D-ring on the corner there
and don't forget to undo the Velcro tabs up underneath here
do that on both ends, take the fly off.
We can fold that up and then we'll collapse the inner down.
So we'll collapse the inner tent down
now gonna come to the end poles here first
and the little silver button part-way down here.
Push that in so that these poles
start to collapse in on themselves.
Do that on both sides.
You shouldn't have to force them,
they should just come down naturally
and sit without being pushed down into this position.
These are the composite poles.
These are all attached. I didn't mention this on setup
but these are all attached to this hub here.
These are all just kind of fold in together.
You don't need to do anything with these poles here.
They just sit there.
They create a bit of extra head space.
So we do the same thing at the other end here.
And then once we've done that,
we can jump to the middle
and collapse the centre pole.
Now it's probably not a bad idea just
to leave the door open a little bit,
as you pack this down to allow air to escape
as the tent collapses down.
We come to the middle button here,
push this in and let all
the frame collapse down onto the tent.
You might need to just wiggle it a little bit
to get it down nice and flat.
Making sure that this doesn't twist in the middle here,
if this twists it make it stuck,
so try and keep the frame as even as you can.
You collapse it down.
Now it won't sit right flat
until we've taken the pegs out of the corner,
'cos the fabric's kind of holding it in place.
So just push it down as far as it will naturally go.
Now that I've got the tent flat on the ground
I'm gonna take the pegs out of the corner
and we'll fold the frame in.
So now I wanna fold the frame in on itself.
Push these legs right in as far as they will go.
And these legs fold in on the centre frame here.
So make sure this is as tight as it will go.
You may find,
'cos this has got a flat section on the bottom here,
if this does twist at all,
it'll kind of get stuck.
So you might need to just twist it a little bit
to make sure that collapses in as well.
You shouldn't have to force it,
if it's tight it's probably just because
the pole is twisted a little bit.
You just need to grab this hub and just untwist it
so that it slides nice and smoothly.
Then fold these in on themselves.
You've got those little composite arms here as well
that you just need to tuck in against the frame there.
So that all of this frame is now sitting together
against that centre pole there.
Do the same at the other end.
So push these legs all the way in.
Fold these up, probably can almost grab these
as you go and fold them in with it.
So, just make sure that that sits flatter.
It's easier to grab it when you can see it
rather than try to find it inside the fabric
and make sure they all sit flat in the middle there.
And you can now see that we've got
kind of a, almost a square.
Not really, diamond maybe? I suppose you can call it.
So fold one side over the other.
So the frame now sits down level with the side here.
I'd recommend, probably,
storing the fly separately to the frame.
You can now roll this.
Now, as I roll it I can feel some resistance.
I think one of the little arms,
I can feel one of the arms here is sticking out a bit.
So just need to make sure that's pushed up
against the frame so I can now easily roll it.
Nice and firmly!
We can then grab the straps.
You probably only need one really!
And then we can put everything back in the bag.
And that went back in the bag really easily.
Now I've taken off a bit of extra space
than when we started
because obviously I didn't roll it up as tight
as the machine at the factory did
but we still got room inside there.
So it is an oversized bag to make it easy
to pack up when you're to departing camp.
That is how to set-up
and pack away the Coleman Instant Swagger,
3P with Darkroom tent,
swent, swag, whatever you want to call it!
It kind of fills that void between
what a tent is and what a swag is,
or offers a good option in between.
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