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- Howdy folks, Ben from Snowys here again today
with a brand new product from Oztent, the RX-5.
It's a touring tent, comes with all the accessories you need
to set up a sleeping area and a living space all in one.
When you buy our RX-5, it comes in two boxes.
So, the first box will have the main tent here.
This weighs about 25 kilos.
And the second box has got your accessories,
which has got the complete panel system,
and the zip in floor in that bag there
with your extra pegs.
That weighs at about 10.8 kilos.
Plus the dimensions, the main tent here
about 200 centimetres long, 29 high and 18 wide.
And your accessories, the bag is about 70 centimetres long,
29 high and 29 wide.
Looking at what comes in the main bag.
We've got the tent here,
which is the back part and the attached awning,
the poles associated with putting that up,
the fly sheet is included with the RX tent,
you've got a bag of good heavy duty pegs,
there's some guy ropes in there,
and they've also included some little caps
which go over the top of the spigots in the awning.
We'll show you what they do later.
(plastic crinkling)
Instruction manual and some repair fabric.
There's some mesh, PVC, and canvas fabric in there.
In the second bag is the complete panel system,
the wall, the floor also is rolled up inside there,
and there's some extra pegs in here as well.
The first thing we need to do is pull these arms out.
From here we need to step inside the tent here,
and underneath the front is a little tab.
We grab this tab and we pull the whole tent upright.
While we're holding the front of the tent up here,
we need to step inside and lock two arms,
one arm on each side in place to hold the frame up.
One other thing we need to do is,
this velcro tab here,
we need to undo and wrap around the arm.
That keeps the wall from flapping around
and also stops this from inverting too far.
You just need to make sure you undo them
when you pack it up.
So that's the main frame and the tent in place.
Now we just need to, sort of, pull it into shape.
Go around and put all the pegs in place around the base.
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So the back of the tent here with just the frame up,
the frame actually finishes short
of where the floor finishes,
so it is important to peg this back bit out,
that extends the tent right out to here.
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Now the weather's pretty good today
so we wouldn't necessarily need a fly overnight,
but I'm gonna put it on anyway,
just to show you how it works.
Now, I'm tall enough to reach at the top here.
The fly zips along the top.
If you're a bit shorter,
it's probably worth leaving the pegs out of the back
and tilting this forward to zip the fly in place.
Because I'm tall enough, I'm able to reach over
and use this zip to attach to another zip,
which is up here, and zip the fly in place.
There are some velcro tabs on this flap,
just to seal where the zipper runs,
just to keep it waterproof.
They just fold over the top, like that.
You'll notice, the fly goes on reflective side up.
Keeps the heat, or reduces the amount of heat,
that gets inside the tent.
We do have a couple of poles.
The thinner poles that come with the kit
that just go in these eyelets here.
They separate the fly from the tent a little
to give it some space in between,
and then all we need to do is just put the guy ropes in,
two on each side, and three at the back here
to hold it all in place.
That's the fly sheet on now.
There's seven guy ropes in total for the fly sheet.
There are four extra guy ropes you can use
that are attached to the main tent
and they're on each corner.
There's one here, the same one on the other side,
and then two on the lower corners at the rear.
Good idea to put them in place
if you're camping for a long time
or if it's particularly windy.
I'm not gonna worry about it today.
So to set up the awning,
we need to undo these straps
and roll this awning down so it hangs flat.
First thing we're gonna do is set it up as a flat awning
at a workable height so we can do all the zips up
for the front panel.
There's a few different poles we need to work with here.
In the bag we've got the two ridge poles,
and then there's two different lengths of uprights
and they're actually marked.
One of them's 2.3, the other one is 1.9.
What we need to make sure when we set it up flat,
is that we put the longer pole with the orange sticker 2.3
in the middle, and the shorter pole at the end,
because this one is gonna extend out
and create the peak in the front room.
We've just got this set up roughly at the moment,
and like I said, we've kept the poles
at a workable height for myself
because what we now need to do is go
and put the ridge poles in place.
If I extend this middle pole up to 2.3,
I'm not gonna be able to reach it.
What I do now
is undo this
and we do the same for the centre poles as well.
From here if we extend the ridge poles out,
it'll make it nice and tight,
and then just tighten in place.
Before we go any further,
I wanna talk about these little orange caps
that come with the tent.
Oztent have included these little caps
that go over the top of the spigot,
and they cover the hole where the eyelet is
and give it weather protection.
So they go on each of the spigots on the front room.
Most importantly, underneath the guy rope.
The guy rope then holds it in place.
From here, before we extend the poles again,
we zip the walls on so we can reach the zips.
Now, we got the wall and the floor in this package here.
So I'm just gonna take the walls out.
Now, the wall is one complete system.
There's not three different walls.
There's three different zips,
but it's one complete system.
This looks like it's my right hand wall,
so I've gotta take it out around the side of the poles
and zip it on over there.
So this'll take a little bit of time
to get the orientation of the walls right.
Being three zippers, you just need to work out
where the zippers start and where they start on the awning,
and just for reference,
all three zippers start in the front corners of the tent.
Now that we've got all the walls in place,
we can extend the centre ridge pole right up high.
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There's also tabs on the inside of the poles
just to keep the walls from flapping around.
Last step for this front room is the zip in floor.
I've got the floor in place.
You just need to gently lift the poles up
and slide the floor under the poles.
In terms of orienting the tent,
they do have markers on here,
they got the A matches the A on the tent,
and also this orange zipper is the same
as the orange zipper on the tent.
I'll do that one up, and then we continue
to zip right around the base of the tent.
Once you've got the front room set up,
last thing you want to check
is to make sure these storm flaps are in place.
Wherever there's a zipper on the top,
Oztent have got a storm flap
and velcro underneath it.
So this goes over the top and seals that zip,
stop water getting in.
That runs right around the side here.
There are flaps on the corner to make sure they're in place.
Make sure this overlaps,
right down around here and even at the base here,
just to make sure that no water gets in.
So probably the last thing that's worth mentioning,
is that this front flap, this front panel, is one big panel.
Actually has eyelets in the corners here
so you could set this up
as an extended awning as well, if you like.
You need extra poles to do that.
Apart from that, that's the Oztent RX-5 all set up.
I did that all by myself.
It's pretty straightforward.
The hardest bit are the zippers, really,
but it's pretty easy to set up.
Another thing people are asking about the RX tents
is can they use RV tent accessories with it.
Yes and no.
With the front panel and everything attached,
the only thing that's really compatible with the RX tent
is the mesh floor saver.
If you remove these panels and don't use them,
you can use an awning connector,
but the side panels and everything
are a slightly different cut between the RX and the RV tent.
If you want to mix and match your features with side panels,
front panels and all of that,
you might be best sticking to the RV range.
If you just want an all in one package like this,
then the RX tent is a really good solution.
I'll show you how to pack up the RX-5 now.
Pretty straightforward, everything in reverse.
First thing we wanna do is
take the complete panel system off and the floor out.
We'll pack all that away.
Then we can get on to the main tent.
That's the accessories packed away.
The bag's a reasonable size for it to fit back into,
nice and easy.
Next step is to take the guy ropes and poles
out of the awning here.
Before I go any further,
I'll make sure this front awning is rolled up.
It's gonna make folding the tent up so much easier
if this is rolled up and tucked away out of the way.
It's less fabric that's flapping around.
Once I've done this,
I'll go and take all the guy ropes
and pegs out for the fly sheet,
and I can unzip that.
I'm actually gonna leave four pegs in place at the moment,
the wind's picked up here a little bit.
So to collapse the tent down,
we actually need to step inside and unlock the poles
on the side so we can collapse the tent down.
We need to make sure we undo this strap here
so that we can release the pole.
That can be undone and just left undone for pack up.
We do that on each side,
and then we release this pole back this way,
and that allows the tent frame to collapse down.
We need to make sure
we're holding the frame up then when we do that.
Now if I just did that side, it's gonna twist,
so I'll do that side and then lower is slowly.
We can use our strap up here if we like.
Lower it slowly, make sure it lowers evenly.
Now I'm comfortable taking my last pegs out.
Before we fold these arms in,
just come to the end of the tent
and this extra fabric in the back here,
just pull it inside like this.
That way you've got one less bit of fabric flapping around.
Now when we fold these in, we always fold A first.
This one here is A.
That crosses first, and B second.
There we have a little triangle of fabric.
That can go over the top.
We'll grab a strap, put it on there, put it back in the bag.
That's how to set up and pack away the Oztent RX-5.
Little bit of a wrestle to get it back in the bag
being such a big tent with so much fabric.
We have got the poles and everything,
the fly sheet in there as well,
but quite manageable for one, easier with two.
You can pick these up off our website
at lowest prices everyday with free delivery
to just about anywhere in Australia.
www.snowys.com.au.
Thanks for watching, we'll catch you next time.
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