Poles filling with water

[Jacmark30]

I have an issue with the poles I use on the bed flys of the Jayco filling up with water. The water runs off the fly and down the pole, then it runs inside the bottom half of the pole where the adgusting clamp is.

Any suggestions on how to stop it?

Cheers,

Mark

[GeoffA]

Can you fit them the other way around........."end for end" them??
Maybe you could mod your current poles. Buy some bungs with spikes, and fit them into the larger section. This would give you poles with a spike at each end.

If not, maybe get some new poles with the larger section (and spike) at the top.

Tent poles are pretty cheap..........

[prodigyrf]

I guess you could try and reverse engineer them. First try removing the eyelet spike and packing it/bonding it (good old Sikaflex, etc) into the larger bottom tube and then pop into somewhere like Clark Rubber for an end cap for the smaller top tube. If the eyelet spike won't come out easily or without damaging the tube, you could hacksaw the spike back and use another spike fitting to fit the larger bottom tube. Obviously first check availability/compatibility before the hacksaw, etc

[speewa158]

What about if you drilled a really small hole to drain out any collected water , or is this just to simple 

[Kit_e_kat9]

What about if you drilled a really small hole to drain out any collected water , or is this just to simple 

You are just too good Speewa ... simple yet effective and so very easy.   What he said x 2!

Kit_e

[GeoffA]

What about if you drilled a really small hole to drain out any collected water , or is this just to simple 

Yeah, this'll let most of the water out, but if packed up wet, you'll get rust (both white and brown) on the inside of the large section, and the outside of the small section.

IMO, best to keep the water out altogether.......

[GGV8Cruza]

Get some flat rubber, cut out a 100mm square, in the middle cut a hole which is just smaller than the diameter of the pole and slide it over just above the join. Water will run down the pole and then hit the rubber and flow of the edge missing the join in the pole.

GG

[GeoffA]

Get some flat rubber, cut out a 100mm square, in the middle cut a hole which is just smaller than the diameter of the pole and slide it over just above the join. Water will run down the pole and then hit the rubber and flow of the edge missing the join in the pole.

GG

That should do the job nicely........

[Malcolm Tugless]

Umm, what about considering the small financial burden of purchasing a couple of decent, non-upsidedown polls.

Supapeg at Yatala manufacture a decent product, or even the imported BCF poles would suffice.

You could donate the old ones to another swagger, who at this very moment is complaining of squeaky poles, so maybe the your leaky would be better than his squeaky so to speaky.

[Jacmark30]

Thanks for the ideas all. I think the piece of rubber will be the go at this stage. Heading to Flanagans reserve this weekend so will give me something to tinker with over a couple of cold beers!

Mark

[fishfinder]

buy some v seals just measure the pole diameter should be able to get them from your local seal / bearing shop there just a soft neoprene
rubber seal just slide over joint when pole extended   

[Mallory Black]

I've got some poles by Supa-Pole, they have the thick section at the bottom but the rubber feet have holes to let water out.
All I do every now and then is to pull them apart (easy to do) and a quick spray and wipe with mr Sheen to stop any oxidisation.

I also have some poles from Poles Apart,  not as solid as the Supa-Pole but they do have the thin section at the bottom, no chance of water getting in them!