Help needed - Scarp1 Tarptent setup **solved**

[Hillwalk]

Ok forgive what's probably an obvious question, but I am stuck setting up a Scarp1 tent for the first time (just testing it at home). I've emailed Tarptent but not heard back yet so hoping there's an owner here who can help.

The instructions say:

1.Spread canopy on ground, black floor side down. Remove stakes from stake
bag and have ready.
2. Assemble 7-segment, main arch pole. Pole length is just over 10 ft / 3 m.
3. Insert pole tip into yellow pole sleeve, push pole through sleeve, and insert
both pole tips into grommets

It's all fine until the part I've bolded. Unfortunately the image in the instructions shows said grommet sideways on so I can't identify it. There's nothing that seems to correspond on my tent, at least not in the right position. Unless the fly has been clipped in differently.

I've searched without success for a photo (or video) showing what the main arch pole tip is supposed to be inserted into. Can anyone help with this?

https://www.tarptent.com/pdf/scarp1-manual.pdf

Last edited by Hillwalk on Tue 24 Apr, 2018 8:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Franco]

There is a set up video clip in the Scarp product page
https://www.tarptent.com/scarp1.html
under videos.
Take a look at it and see if that helps.

[Orion]

3. Insert pole tip into yellow pole sleeve, push pole through sleeve, and insert
both pole tips into grommets

It's all fine until the part I've bolded. Unfortunately the image in the instructions shows said grommet sideways on so I can't identify it. There's nothing that seems to correspond on my tent, at least not in the right position. Unless the fly has been clipped in differently.

Maybe your Scarp 1 is like my Scarp 1 and has no grommets.

The included paper instructions with mine were modified by hand to note that the grommets were replaced by little fabric pockets where the pole ends are supposed to be inserted. They look like tiny little fabric cups, sewn to the narrow webbing where the grommets would have otherwise been installed. They're sort of like the cups that Hilleberg uses but smaller and more fiddly.

[Strider]

The grommets (brass) are in the webbing strap that goes across the middle of the tent (under the floor). Look at the photos in top right of instructions you have linked.

[Franco]

Sorry I forgot about the new pockets..

archstrappolepocket2.jpg (62.98 KiB) Viewed 6380 times

[Neo]

Show us your Scarp when it's up!

[Hillwalk]

Thanks everyone for the replies. I just got back from a (day) walk on Mt Torbreck and have a reply from Henry at Tarptent. It is as Franco and Orion say - mine doesn't have the grommets but has the 'cups' so the problem is the documentation. Apparently "the arch strap now has webbing pole tip pockets instead of grommets" so I will try that. Seems obvious now looking at the photo above...

Mods can probably delete this thread now.

Thanks again.