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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1225 on: 04 July, 2016, 09:33:02 pm »
http://www.millets.co.uk/equipment/162660-eh-buckingham-8-elite.html
Beware wine and 0% credit.
Clearly not much use for cycle touring and I'm going to need 5 more children to justify it!
I should probably shut the PC down before I get lured onto ebay....

You can get a porch for that as well.

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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1226 on: 14 July, 2016, 10:56:17 am »
A second two man tent (Vango Bravo 200) for £39.99.

and one of these for £9.39 (both in yesterday's Amazon Prime Sale event):-



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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1227 on: 14 July, 2016, 01:04:58 pm »
One of those Mora things.  I've felt the limitations of my previous knife strategy (small generic kitchen knife with cut down handle to fit inside the Trangia where it won't stab anything) on recent trips.

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1228 on: 14 July, 2016, 01:55:50 pm »

after 10 days of blowing up a full length XTherm by mouth

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1229 on: 17 July, 2016, 10:50:39 am »
would that work with any blow up  matt .i have the exped matt .

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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1230 on: 17 July, 2016, 11:12:26 am »

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1231 on: 17 July, 2016, 11:24:56 am »
cheers Rich i had one with the exped  down matt ,didn't know i could buy one separate. :thumbsup:

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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1232 on: 17 July, 2016, 05:54:46 pm »
If you've got an Exped mat with integrated pump, you'll need an adaptor to make the Snozzle fit the valve:

http://www.exped.com/usa/en/product-category/mats/flatvalve-adapter

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1233 on: 17 July, 2016, 06:49:57 pm »
nope its the blow up one i have, for the  life of me i can't think of the model  .still in the box from i bought it from bikepacker.as a matter of fack all my gear is still unused ,some camper what  ;D ;D ;D.

as soon as i buy the tent thats gonna fit in the carradice camper  (light roomy cheap as chips) i'll give this lightweight cycling   touring a bash but until then i'm staying on the armchair.

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1234 on: 17 July, 2016, 09:51:25 pm »
would that work with any blow up  matt .i have the exped matt .
No.
It's expected that the valve will fit well inside the grey spout, and I'd be surprised if any non-Thermarest mat valve fitted. Certainly Exped flat valves won't work.

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1235 on: 17 July, 2016, 09:57:22 pm »
kinda thought that  :'(
thanks andrew

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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1236 on: 18 July, 2016, 12:17:21 am »
I use the Exped Mini Pump for my Synmat.  It only takes a couple of minutes by hand to fully inflate the mat, and the pump squishes down into a fist-sized bag for storage.  I've never tried the Schnozzel pump/bag.
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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1237 on: 18 July, 2016, 10:27:40 am »
nifty wee gadget  :thumbsup:

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1238 on: 18 July, 2016, 02:40:36 pm »
Certainly Exped flat valves won't work.
Further consideration leads to the possibility of making an adapter by bodging a bit of tube into the valve closure lid from a dead Exped mat or pillow.
Dead mats seem to be fairly common, by internet account, and I'm sure that sitting half on a pillow and popping the baffles must also be relatively common.

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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1239 on: 18 July, 2016, 03:52:00 pm »
Certainly Exped flat valves won't work.
Further consideration leads to the possibility of making an adapter by bodging a bit of tube into the valve closure lid from a dead Exped mat or pillow.

I have, somewhere, a 12V airbed inflator, that cost me a few quid from Wilkos (and, it turned out, could be persuaded to run from barakta's trike battery).  This was useful when a cheap voluminous airbed was barakta's preferred camping mat.  One camping weekend - Long Itch I think it was - it occurred to me that I might be able to use it to inflate my downmat.  I experimented with wrapping a spare inner tube around its outlet valve in order to match the diameter of the exped flat valve, and simply holding it in place.  The arrangement was fairly leaky, but the airflow was such that this didn't really matter, and holding something awkward in position for a while is substantially less effort than pumping up a downmat in the traditional manner.

Clarion spotted what I was doing, and offered a Snozzle valve adaptor, which gave a similarly functional but less fiddly to hold in place fit.  I invested in one and used it to good effect until we bought barakta an Exped Airmat, which came with its own Snozzle.

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1240 on: 18 July, 2016, 04:22:59 pm »
A second two man tent (Vango Bravo 200) for £39.99.

and one of these for £9.39 (both in yesterday's Amazon Prime Sale event):-



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Truly a thing of beauty. I'd be interested in how you get on. I made a hobo stove from an Ikea cutlery holder. It's OK.

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1241 on: 18 July, 2016, 10:17:25 pm »
A couple of Trangia O rings, to replace the one I destroyed in France in June.   From the excellently named https://fettlebox.co.uk/index.php



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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1242 on: 19 July, 2016, 05:04:49 pm »
I bought this today....it's camping sort of.

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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1243 on: 19 July, 2016, 07:20:03 pm »
Wow fantastic,very best of luck with it, its a beauty. :thumbsup:
if ever i win the lottery.

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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1244 on: 20 July, 2016, 09:22:53 am »
I bought this today....it's camping sort of.



I read the side of that as "Hymenmobil" at first glance.
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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1245 on: 20 July, 2016, 10:30:48 am »
I bought this today....it's camping sort of.



I notice the wide opening side window, do you plan on selling 99s? :O)
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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1246 on: 20 July, 2016, 11:08:16 am »
My given name at birth starts with H and my nickname in Denmark is Ymer. My best mate and I managed to convince quite a few school mates. That my folks owned that company and they named the campers after me :)
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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1247 on: 20 July, 2016, 11:22:40 am »
I made a 'strategic' purchase (by which I mean, I don't need it just now, but I probably will in the future, and there was a 20% price reduction on offer) of a Rab Neutrino 400 sleeping bag :-)

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Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1248 on: 28 July, 2016, 11:11:33 am »
I was in Asda...

Bought two glamping chairs and a camping specific sack truck because I know the car park is along way from the camping area on next weeks camp.
I also bought an extremely cheap air bed because my Thermarest is still in Holland  :facepalm:
216km from Marsh Gibbon

Re: Bought any camping gear today?
« Reply #1249 on: 28 July, 2016, 02:12:31 pm »
We bought a new tent that arrived today.
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