Re: Carbon fiber telescopic pole

From: John Kagan <john_kagan_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:11:59 -0000

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Bill Gowen" <b.gowen@...> wrote:
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> So we're talking about $4200 (plus shipping)?

Yeah, but it comes with extra tips :)

They actually have some 11 to 13 meter poles in the several hundred $ range. Ray Harlan had one like these. They are noticably better than the cheaper ones previously mentioned...but I'm not sure they are hundreds of dollars better. You certainly would be more reluctant to let someone borrow it!

One thing to note, some of them use "put over" joints - which means that smaller diameter section connects *over* the bigger one below it, as opposed to the telescoping ones that do it the other way around. The result is that you need to lay out all the tubes first, and then put them together. I think the convenience of telescoping outweighs the performance benefit of the "put over" joints.

You can find a lot of these poles by Googling combinations of "match" "margin" "carp" "pole" and "carbon"
Received on Wed Apr 29 2009 - 08:12:01 CEST