Re: Carbon fiber telescopic pole

From: ray_harlan <rbharlan_at_comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:07:05 -0000

A couple of points about telescoping vs "put over". The put over type lets you quickly break the pole in two, so you can steer at lower altitudes easier with a shorter pole. This isn't as easy to do with the telescoping. If the telescoping pole is opened by whipping around, it can get stuck open. I had this happen with an overexuberant protege one time with a pole I carted all the way back from Hong Kong. Almost didn't get it closed again. Took some carefully made holding fixturing so I could spread the forces over a lot of area.

My pole is a Grim Reaper from Maver (England) and cost about $400. It is quite stiff, although Maver pointed out that their $5000 poles were much stiffer.

I have put pieces of duct tape at one-foot intervals and various colors of tape at the five-foot intervals, so I can put the end of the pole near the floor and walk just behind a model to see how high it is. This works well up to about 35 ft. Perfect for working with partial motors.

Ray


--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "John Kagan" <john_kagan@...> wrote:
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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "Bill Gowen" <b.gowen@> wrote:
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> > So we're talking about $4200 (plus shipping)?
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> Yeah, but it comes with extra tips :)
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> You can find a lot of these poles by Googling combinations of "match" "margin" "carp" "pole" and "carbon"
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