Marqee Fund
 

As you are aware we have a fund going on for a new dogs bollox marqee as our current gazebo is having trouble when the weather gets bad.

Thanks again to S13eater and Jackiefan. Also Slimreaper just donated a cheque towards the fund too so we have 100 quid already. Im happy to donate whatever is needed also along with claire.

If anyone else wants to help out pm claire as she is looking after the club money in a seperate account.linked to her paypal.

Has anyone cme across a particular model that is suitable. Things to think about are the ground fittings and the diameter and gauge of the framework as our current gazebo bent and twisted in the storm last jae. Its still useable but a pain none the less. It needs to be vinyl not cottom canvas so that it can keep out the rain.:) . Ive seen a lot on ebay but its hard to see the construction,scaling and strength of them. If anyone fancies trawling through ebay aswell it would be great

Cheers

:cool: , mate, we deffo need summet strong.

Clicky Here and I'm sure I've found just what your looking for

http://www.amberiris.co.uk/site.htm


Thats great but a little expensive. around 10k!.........Unless someone wants to make a sizable donation

Dont mean to but in but how is this marquee going to be transported.
To get anything strong enough its going to use a clear span frame with apex roof.
Therefore a 3metre wide tent will have roof beams that are about 2 metres.
Plus pvc panels weigh a hell of a lot if they are of a decent thickness.
The biggest marquee we could carry in a 4 metre transit was a 3 metre by 9 metre and that was probably over the 3.5T weight limit.
As a side note I still have and will freely donate them 8 lighting units and 240V outlet setup if needed as long as the venue offers an electric hookup or if anyones got a portable genny.
As an alternative if anyone is handy at fabricating I still have roof panel that is 3 metres wide by 12 metres long that could be used to make a fair size marquee.

Might help your searches if you use 'marquee' as the correct spelling.

is magp** spelt magpie or magpy?



Cheers though lol. Ive been getting 15+ pages of finds on ebay as it is under that spelling so never thought any different.




As for transporting it. No idea. It needs to be transportable. I dont see why it wouldnt be. Were only a small club. It just needs to be waterproof and be a decent gauge on the pipework

Hi try talking to ne of those places that sell second hand army stuff they might have something
as for transporting it no real biggy i could sort that out
i will see what i can find out on the army thing

hi ok quick look about and i have come across this
http://www.surplusandadventure.com/i...cr2108820.html
but not sure how much you want to spend but this is big and tough :D
there are others like these ones
http://www.surplusandadventure.com/i...cr2108819.html

http://www.surplusandadventure.com/i...cr2108818.html

you can even get our cars in these and take of the sides on the few hot sunny days we get

That last one is like a castle!!! Must be a sod to pack away too! Good find's though :) Hate to think how heavy it would get in the wet!

Well am sure with all the tec'ed up guys and gals on here with many hours of head scratching we could just about get back in the bag:whip

as for the weight when its wet well i guess we had go and all get a gym member ship and a small hoist :rolleyes:

Hate to be sensible but I can't see how the club funds will pay for any of those when you consider that there are only about 10 fully paid up members.

That last one is like a castle!!! Must be a sod to pack away too! Good find's though :) Hate to think how heavy it would get in the wet!

I am sure with some saving up and some more donations its not to far out of reach.
But in the mean time how about this then, contact any scout group cubs girl guides what ever you have close as a lot of them already have such items and would rent them out

I had no clue what your spend potential was (i did post don't know what you want to spend) just trying to be help full :(

Eurolighning - Althought those marquee's are the tits, they're just a bit OTT lol. Think you'd be best sticking to ebay looking out for the cheaper end of the market.

I work part time as an officer at a cadet unit, I wouldn't dream of borrowing out a tent/marquee. Its almost guaranteed that they come back either broken or missing a few bits.

Of course these things are easily available to rent but if it is broken or parts lost then you lose the deposit. I looked into it once, and decided upon buying a huge 2nd hand army tent.

You Can Buy Us One Of Those If You Like! ;)

We could have the whole show under it!

Ok guys so there a bit big iam just stuck in the good old :sderfd days
LOL

pukka as to your comment here's the deal :D i will swop one for a sorted s12 ;)

On that note i also have a disco unit that can be used for any meets :wack

is that the (ca18det) unit mart lol.;)

Lol yeh

The new marquee has arrived today. It is so heavy!!!!! It looks very strong so far. the material is heavy duty and the framework is twice as thick in diameter as the last one. I will test build it this weekend to make sure we have all the bits and take a picture of it next to my s12 so that you can visage its size

Thanks to Shaun and Stella,Jackiefan,Beany-s12 and the person who donated via paypal the other day . There username was not included only there real name which i dont know if they want announced public as yet. Also big thankyou to claire for organising all this and for also going halfs on the remaining £ needed to pay for it with me .

If any of the donating members require to borrow the marquee at anytime for other reasons then that is fine:)

yeah, well done eveyone:) ,thanx claire, for sorting everything;) , i'am looking forwards to the weekend out, i've not been anywhere this year, due to the fj project.

It was no deliberate mistery. Thanks to Wocketfast(jon) for his donation to the fund:)

Thanks Claire and Pukka. Really looking forward to next weekend now!...... If I can sort the bloody diff out in time! :confused:

have you sorted the shafts out yet ?

Nah, That's my problem! I think the MKI shaft I've got has a slightly different output shaft on it to the MKII which could be why I couldn't see the SE way of modding the S12 shaft to fit the S13 vLSD, my main problem is that the car is 60 miles from my house at the moment (at Arrons) and I don't want to risk driving it back. I'll find a way though. Unless someone has a Standard diff, ready built that I can borrow till after JAE?

SE never did the LSD on the S12.

Just make sure that the passenger one is like the S13 shaft. Put them together it will become apparant what you need to do.

i have a std diff you can borrow.you can mod the mk1 shafts to fit, i did.if you do borrow the diff, i'll show you how to go on with the shafts.

Oops, My Bad

Are you around tomorrow? I've got to swing by Hemel to get the bits to sort this out and I'm out with the Missus for the afternoon today!

EDIT - Take this thread to the Jackie/Reeper project page, Sorry to Claire and Jon for the hijack :o

i'am always in mr fan,i'll pm you my mobile number.

Here's the new marquee. I couldnt be bothered to attach all the side panels because the fabric weighs a tonne, and we had to take the marquee straight down again. :D


http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/4674/dsc00225zr4.jpg

it must have been hard for you moving out jon, with all those sheep in the next field ;) lol :D , nice set up.:)

nice size that , looks great :)

Thanks also to Duncan and Olivia for there donation to the marquee at Jae this year also.
the club really has got together on this one and its great. it didnt have to come out of my pocket:D ;)

i think the marquee was a success, it stould up really really well this weekend gone and gave us all plenty of room. It should do s12oc well for many years to come.

thanks everyone

was a top marquee!
even the earwigs liked it:D :D

WIGS!!!!!! :furious

ha ha:D they only little wiggy's mate they probably more afraid of you than you of them:D there was a shit load of them though. even they knew s12oc is the place to be.
they probably pissed on the smell of beer off the rest of us:D
glad we could help out jon