The following links take you to owner's manuals for the various tents we've made over the years. Besides being of historical interest to tent mavens, they are also available for downloading for those customers who still have the tents but have parted company with the original owner's manuals over the years. There's every reason to think that many of these tents ... particularly the ones made with heavy canvas such as Pyrotone or Fyrecoat ... are still in service even after twenty years.
If you're one of those people, be aware that the tents, and their corresponding manuals, have undergone many changes over the years. Therefore, be sure that the manual is for your particular tent. If you have doubts about when the tent was made, you can find out by finding the label and noting the "serial number" or "control number" listed thereon. Then drop us a line or give us a call. We maintain records on every tent we've sold, and can quickly identify the particular version of your tent and the owner's manual that corresponds to it. If there's no label, that means that:
As for the formats, the manuals for the first tents are presented as JPEG images, page py page. These are scans from the originals, or from first copies of the manual. We didn't get around to producing our manuals in an entirely electronic format until the mid-nineties. From that time on, we produced them as Microsoft Word documents, and the manuals from then to the present exist mainly in that form. To save space on our web site, we've converted them to PDF files, which can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program available from adobe systems if your browser doesn't want to display them, you can still download them by selecting them and choosing the "save link as ..." or "save target as ..." option. A few manuals are also available in HTML format. These are the first ones we put on the Web as a service to our customers and to those who wanted to see what they were getting into before they plunked down their money.
The most up-to-date version of the sunshade manual, incorporating the latest set-up methods. If you need an owner's manual for your sunshade, any size, model or year, this is the one you'll want. The addendum mentioned below is incorporated in this manual. This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
Included for historical reasons only. You don't really need this one.
Again, included for historical reasons only. This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
Again, this is for historical reasons. It was provided to help the customers figure out which ropes and stakes go where. The latest manual covers this, as well
The first tent series Dragonwing made, these were all were sold without frames.
The second tent series Dragonwing made, these were were sold without frames from 1987 to 1996. From 1996 to 2003, they were sold with a frame using a ring and a wind prop to stabilize the ring in winds. This configuration was replaced in 2003 with an improved ring system using ropes to tether the ring to the center pole, eliminating the need for a wind prop. After 2002, they were also offered with an optional hub-and-spoke frame. (Note that the two sizes offered in this optional configuration had their own versions of the owners manual.)
The first tent series Dragonwing made, all sold without frames
Sold with frames using a ring to support the eaves, and a wind prop (rather than a rope tether system) to stabilize the ring in winds.
Sold with frames using a ring to support the eaves and a rope tether system (rather than a wind prop) to stabilize the ring in winds.
Sold with frames using an optional hub-and-spoke system to support the eaves.This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
Sold with frames using an optional hub-and-spoke system to support the eaves. This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
This tells you how to figure out where the sidewalls stake down if you don't have one of our ground cloths for a guide. It was originally written for the wind-prop frame, but it would work as easily for any of the others if you substitute some sort of measuring device for the wind prop.
Sold with frames using a ring to support the eaves, and a wind prop (rather than a rope tether system) to stabilize the ring in winds.
Sold with frames using a ring to support the eaves, and a rope tether system (rather than a wind prop) to stabilize the ring in winds.
Sold with frames using an optional hub-and-spoke system to support the eaves. This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
These were all sold without frames
These were furnished with frames that did not change significantly (except for minor improvements) during its production. This is an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.
Tells you how to fold, maintain, and use the fitted ground cloth provided as an option to all our tents.