new dandy owner with awning questions

lazydayz wrote:One question though. There are poppers that join the roof to the poles( just before the hooks that attach it to the dandy). When I use these they come undone when I tie the roof in, if you see what I mean. Are they supposed to?

Our roof popper doesn't stay popped together at all, I think over time it have lost it's pop, lol

Our roof poppers are unpredicatable, sometimes we get the awning perfect and others we only manage to get the two side ones to stay on It's still worth putting it up though for longer stays, we use alternatives too if it's just for a weekend.

selkie wrote:We use a light weight porch awning which is useless in the wind, we do have a Dandy awning but sadly none of the poles!

I wonder if you could get a set of Ian at riva, seems such a waste of an awning and he may have enough spares to make a full frame.

Helen wrote:

selkie wrote:We use a light weight porch awning which is useless in the wind, we do have a Dandy awning but sadly none of the poles!

I wonder if you could get a set of Ian at riva, seems such a waste of an awning and he may have enough spares to make a full frame.

could you not fabricate a set of poles yourself you can buy all the springs and clips from most camping shops quite cheaply?

This is the link to a diagram of the frame, it would be great if you can get a frame made up somehow

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vickoir wrote:

Helen wrote:

selkie wrote:We use a light weight porch awning which is useless in the wind, we do have a Dandy awning but sadly none of the poles!

I wonder if you could get a set of Ian at riva, seems such a waste of an awning and he may have enough spares to make a full frame.

could you not fabricate a set of poles yourself you can buy all the springs and clips from most camping shops quite cheaply?

The daft thing is the frame from an old frame tent could be used as bits and it would be dead easy to do if you had a frame to copy,without it would be possible but not easy

Thanks Helen, It may be a good idea to get in touch with Ian at Riva about some new poles