The CUB CLUB

[Chippy76]

what does the silver angled bracket in front of the box hold ??

Cheers Chippy

[GeoffA]

what does the silver angled bracket in front of the box hold ??

Cheers Chippy

My guess............the winch........

[Mudhunter]

Ta mate..

[Chippy76]

how does the winch attach to that
Cheers Chippy

[Mudhunter]

Correct holds the winch, as the strap still needed to go over the box, changed the angle of the winch and added some slides where the strap touches the box, works well.

[Chippy76]

ahhh now I get it! lol

Cheers Chippy

[The Bockies]

Hi Everyone,

Well we haven't as yet joined the Cub Club so are doing so now. We have a Cub Supamatic Escape off Road with extras to bring it up to almost a Drover. have a question for everyone here. We are at present camped at Hervey Bay and the weather has been rather wet. All was good up until last night. On arriving home from visiting friends we walked in to find water leaking through seams quite badly, particularly so around the head of the bed. Our camper was seasoned very well when we as we opened it up and were fortunate to have 4inches over heavy rain do the seasoning job for us. We have since camped in quite a bit of wet weather. Does anyone have any ideas why it would start leaking like this after having owned it for two and a half years. It was purchased brand new in 2010.
Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Cheers!
Kaye and Jim

[Spada]

Some times water can sit just infront of the bow poles at either end of the roof and will seep through the stitching if it is there long enough. I'm only guessing, but I would say this is what has happened given the prolonged and constant rain that has been around lately.

Quick and simple fix is a quick rub with wax stick along the outside of the affected seams / stitching. Should be able to get some for a couple of bucks from any camping store. A stick of DryLube from a garage would do the same job.

Hope that gets you dry,
Spada

[timneva]

Hi Everyone,
Does anyone have any ideas why it would start leaking like this after having owned it for two and a half years. It was purchased brand new in 2010.
Look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Cheers!
Kaye and Jim

G'day Kaye and Jim,

We had a similar issue with ours last year and as Spada mentions, hitting it with a wax stick along the seams fixed it up. Good Luck!

cheers,
Tim

[The Bockies]

Thanks Spada and Timneva. We have hit the seams with a wax stick and seems to have done the job. Had a very heavy fall here again this arvo and looks to be ok. Just one small drip coming through so will attack that again tomorrow. Hopefully we are in for a bit of sunshine.
 Thanks again.

Cheers!
Jim and Kaye

[sablesoft]

Thanks Spada and Timneva. We have hit the seams with a wax stick and seems to have done the job. Had a very heavy fall here again this arvo and looks to be ok. Just one small drip coming through so will attack that again tomorrow. Hopefully we are in for a bit of sunshine.

Hi Jim and Kaye,

I have a green Cub Escape with the fridge box and lots of extras also (almost drover spec).

I carry a Oztrail 16f x 20f tarp which goes over the top of the whole camper and annex, I use it if it looks like rain or possible bird poo or sap from trees much easier to clean then canvas and it only cost $75 via ebay. It it is raining when you have to pack up, it is possible to pack and close the camper under the tarp to keep things reasonably dry. I have added 6 poles to allow me to lift the tarp off the canvas in hot weather to allow airflow between the canvas roof and the tarp and keep the camper cooler.

The attached photos were at Fraser Island my swag meet Jul/Aug 2012
There were strong on shore winds hence lots of guy ropes to keep the tarp in place pulled down tight against the tent.

Here is a link to the thread showing my mods to my Escape.
http://www.myswag.org/index.php?topic=5195.0

Ray
 

[The Bockies]

Thanks for your reply too Ray. I had thought about a tarp as well so may well have a look on eBay too. Thanks again.

Cheers!
Kaye

[thrasherdave]

Kitchen Storage.

We have  a Supamatic Drover, with a slide-out Engel in the drawbar box, as well as the 'pantry drawer' and the RHS 'storage drawer'.
We put our pots and pans and cutlery in the 'pantry drawer', which nearly fills it. We put our non-fridge food in the RHS drawer. We keep long trip food reserves as well as camp oven and open-fire stuff under the bed, because we access it less often.
The problem is, we find ourselves constantly having to walk round the other side (RHS) to get food to bring to the kitchen, and of course, we always forget stuff and have to walk round yet again. Is there a better way? Where do other owners store their food and kitchenware?

DaveO

[Stewart]

We keep the pans we use the most under our stove and our cutlery and utensils in slide out boxes. In the cupboard under the sink. Basic crockery for four fits at one end of the pantry drawer and all non perishable foods fit in the remainder of the pantry drawer. We have single beds in our supamatic and have one set of underbed storage for extra kitchen stuff that we may not use everyday such as extra alfoil, the camp oven and collapsible colander. Works well for us but we only carry enough plates etc for four people.

[Wazza2]

Mine is a very different setup to a standard Supamatic as we added drifta kitchen into the storage box and then put drifta drawers in where the kitchen normally is. A major change if you dont do it from new.

Another thought might be to get a drifta tucker box like we have though. If fits neatly into the hatch at the rear. We use it as a step and also for storage. Could easily be placed near kitchen area though and used for non-fridge food.

[thrasherdave]

Electrics

Sorry, I have to vent after struggling under the bed for an hour and still totally unable to detect the hot wire coming in to the battery from the Anderson plug on the drawbar. Nearly all wires are orange, some with obscure texta messages written on them.

Cub wiring really sucks. And that includes bringing the negative cable from the Anderson plug at the front of the drawbar to the back, and then screwing it to the drawbar with a self tapper there. If they were going to do that, why bother to run it backwards 3 metres in the first place? Why not run it all the way to the battery - they were nearly there!

Sorry, people. I'm just trying to fit a Redarc DC-DC charger. I thought it would be a 15 minute job.

DaveO

[Estelle]

Hi Dave,

Haven't had cable colour problems with ours. Maybe they have changed their ways. It is a new CT?

If it is older, maybe someone has re-cabled?

Our earth or -ve ( sorry Drivesafe) connection to the minus battery terminal is adjacent to the battery box. Joins the black cable from the Anderson connection.

[speewa158]

Today l have joined the " Cub Club " 2011 Cub Escape will be collected  tomorrow to replace " The Black Pearl " for future voyages  .
lt is with great saddnes that l put  " The Black Pearl " up for grabs . TBP has followed me to many camp sites on many tracks . Then become the center of the comfortable camp site 

[xcvator]

Today l have joined the " Cub Club " 2011 Cub Escape will be collected  tomorrow to replace " The Black Pearl " for future voyages  .
lt is with great saddnes that l put  " The Black Pearl " up for grabs . TBP has followed me to many camp sites on many tracks . Then become the center of the comfortable camp site 

  congratulations 

[GeoffA]

Today l have joined the " Cub Club " 2011 Cub Escape will be collected  tomorrow to replace " The Black Pearl " for future voyages  .
lt is with great saddnes that l put  " The Black Pearl " up for grabs . TBP has followed me to many camp sites on many tracks . Then become the center of the comfortable camp site 

WOW!!! That's big news, Jamie.....
Huge congrats......

TBP has served you well........you'll shed a tear when she goes.....

So, Nagambie has become "Cub Central"............

 

[speewa158]

WOW!!! That's big news, Jamie.....
Huge congrats......

TBP has served you well........you'll shed a tear when she goes.....

So, Nagambie has become "Cub Central"............

 

GeoffA
\ l have just posted " The  Black Pearl " on the classified to a good home only  . To a family that wants to got into  CTs on a budget .
It is with great saddness that l do this , but the new family will be clossly vetted , to want to have fun .
& yes a tear will be shed as it shows me dust as it embarks on its new adventure . But we go on .....

[Snow]

Nice one Jamie. 

You'll love flippin' ya lid when you get it. 

[gunna]

Great stuff speewa

Took a couple of pic's of my cub
due for a w/end away very very soon

  sheeds

 

[poppasmurf]

bout time mate now you can associate with us hob nobs lol

[kirwilli]

Hi everyone just took our Spacematic Regal for a 2 week stint around southern NSW. The Cub handled it all very well its a Transcontinental Pack so off road was fine. Just a few comments about our experiences with the Cub.  On some nights we only had a one night stay, our annex was left draped over the van. Fine on calm nights, one very windy night I had to get out and put in some guys to stop the annex acting like a sail. I had lightly tied it down but the wind got under it. Next time I might try to position the cub door into the wind, not real god for comfort but will reduce the sail effect.  Secondly has anyone thought about extra poles running from the apex to the end bends to reduce the dip that generally occurs at the bends. Maybe extra poles would lift ther canvas and prevent the water pooling, just a thought. Finally, after many kms on rough road one of the locks on the kitcken door worked loose. Luckily a mate following couldm see movement on the door. I stopped and just got the lock before it feel off.  It had a screw with a spring washer holding it in, however it is only screwed into plastic. Luckily I had a screw in my tool box, I also added some Locktite. Oh one more thing We decided to move our badly positioned Cub without closing it down.  My mate raised the drawbar end and guess what, snagged our back door.  Not to much damage, easily pushed out.  It now looks liked a used Cub. Had an problem with one of the indicators on the Cub, Rang Ross in Sydney, service person came on phone and advised on fixing the problem, problem solved, great service. A very happy Cub Camper after our biggest outing yet

Kirwilli