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- Goodday folks, Ben
from Snowys here today
with a product we've had a
lot of video requests for,
the Darche Nebula 1550 Swag.
Sorry it's taken us so
long to get it together,
but we're here to do it for you today.
This is a really durable swag
with a rigid pole structure,
room for two people, kind
of almost like a mini tent,
but they still call it a swag.
We're gonna put it up for you today.
I'll start by showing you
what comes in the box.
In front of me here is
the main part of the swag.
Got a bag with all your poles in it.
Some pegs in a little canvas bag.
This is the flysheet
that goes over the top.
Got a heavy duty canvas carry bag.
A bit of warranty information
and your instructions.
And over here this is the
mat, the included mat.
Now, this comes quite compressed,
so as soon as you get the swag
you wanna unpack this
mat and leave it out,
to allow the foam to expand,
'cause it's not gonna be
comfortable to sleep on straight away.
First thing I do is grab
the main part of the swag,
lay it out and put the poles together.
So I've got the poles together here.
There's actually five
different pole sections
that come with it.
There's two end hoops, obviously
go at each end of the tent.
Now these are all joined
with elastic in between.
You've then got the
main centre ridge pole,
which goes down the centre of the tent.
And two shorter poles that
actually go right on each end,
to create the awning at the end.
So I put all the pegs in.
What I did find was that these
end poles were coming off
of their pins while I
was putting the pegs in,
so my recommendation would
be put all the pegs in,
there's eight of them in total,
and then put these poles on afterwards.
Once I've got this back in the pin,
I put the ridge pole in place.
So that's most of the
pole structure in place.
Now we just grab the little short poles
and we put 'em on each end.
So we're almost there.
Now I need to just clip the
swag to the pole structure.
So starting with the middle
top, we clip this up to here.
Do the same at the other end,
and we follow the clips
right around the frame.
Now I will admit, that was quite tight,
to be able to clip these on here.
The canvas will give a
little bit over time,
but it does require just
a little bit of muscle
to get those clips up and over the poles.
Last thing we need to do
is loop the little eyelets
over the end poles here.
So that's the main part
of the swag set up.
You can use the swag like this,
it's gonna be quite waterproof.
If you are in really,
really wet weather though,
or if you wanna adjust the
temperature inside the tent
or create a little awning at the front,
it does come with a flysheet
that attaches quite easily
over the top of the
fly with little eyelets
on here somewhere that loop
over the ends of the swag.
And clips that go in
the canvas loops here.
So that's the fly attached.
This is the awning on this side here.
Now the awning poles aren't
included, with the Nebula.
You could peg this straight
out like this if you wanted.
Ideally, a couple of short awning poles
gives you a little entrance,
you can put it up high
or low however you like.
We don't have them with us here today,
so what I'm gonna do is roll this up.
There are tabs here that allow us
to secure the awning away
while we're not using it.
The last thing we do, if we're
sleeping in it for the night,
is grab the mattress out and put it inside
and we're ready to sleep in.
I'm not gonna unpack this today.
It's not gonna look very
pretty, it's compressed.
So just remember when you get your swag,
grab this out first, give
the foam time to expand.
That's the Nebula all set up.
Pack up is just everything in reverse.
First thing we're gonna do
is take the flysheet off.
To remove the flysheet, I'm
just gonna unroll the awning
so it's easy to fold.
We take the little metal
hooks off of the canvas loops
and remove the hooks off
the end of the poles.
The next thing we're gonna
do is remove the clips
from the pole structure on the swag,
and then we can take the pole out.
One thing I will recommend,
before you go too far,
is to make sure you leave at
least one of the doors open.
It allows the air to escape
out of the swag as you roll it up.
Now we can take the poles away.
So we've got all the
poles out, packed away.
Next thing we're gonna do
is pull all the pegs out.
Then we're gonna dump everything on top
and roll it all up together.
Now the Nebula's got
attached compression straps
on the end here, so you're
never gonna lose them.
So what you have to do is
roll it up to the end there,
wrap the strap around and tighten it up.
Now this is a little bit easier to pack up
than when the foam
mattress has been expanded,
so you might need to put a
little bit more muscle in it,
after that mattress is puffed up a bit.
Now as I mentioned before,
with the foam mattress
not being expanded, this fit
back in the bag pretty easily,
but when it has been expanded out,
you can use the compression straps inside,
it also has some fairly
constrict compressions straps
on the bag here so you
can tighten it down.
But that otherwise is the
Darche Nebula 1550 Swag,
how to set it up, how to pack it away.
You can pick it up off our website,
at lowest prices everyday,
and free delivery to almost
anywhere in Australia.
Thanks for watching, see you next time.
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