Tent Pole

Fringe

Hey, I was camping in August and it was a really windy day. One of my tent poles snapped. Does anyone know where I can get replacements?

Gillo

Great Outdoors used to sell them, I assume they still do, bring your poles in so they can match them.

Mitch Buchannon

Fringe wrote: »

Hey, I was camping in August and it was a really windy day. One of my tent poles snapped. Does anyone know where I can get replacements?

There are a couple of companies that you could look at for replacing your pole. It really depents on the type of pole.. if its an old fiberglass pole maybe these are'nt for you.

http://www.scottishmountaingear.com/repairs-lightweight-tent.asp

http://www.hampton-works.co.uk/

http://www.questoutfitters.com/

http://www.polesforyou.com/

http://www.shelby.fi/catalog/default.php?cPath=33_193

Hope these are of some help to you.

Keep safe in the water,
Mitch

Pembily

Millets in Galway do them, any good camping shop will do them, I have a similar problem, scouts breaking tent poles means they need constant replacing!!!!

mmclo

Lent our tent to a relative and one major pole now missing!

O'Mearas where i got it say it's long out of stock.

Anything I can do, I quite liked it but suppose at a push could get replacement but would prefer just to get new poles! Can the size of one combined with the canvass not give a close approximation or is this dodgy?

cL0h

mmclo wrote: »

Lent our tent to a relative and one major pole now missing!

O'Mearas where i got it say it's long out of stock.

Anything I can do, I quite liked it but suppose at a push could get replacement but would prefer just to get new poles! Can the size of one combined with the canvass not give a close approximation or is this dodgy?

It's very easy to replace fibreglass tent poles and with the help of a mini hacksaw you can easily move poles between tents. It's not rocket science. The only hard bit is threading the cord back through the pole sections. Tent pole repair kits always include a long thin rod for this purpose. It's the only thing you need as everything else can be salvaged. Ask someone coming back from Oxygen to grab you one or two pole sections from broken (abandoned) tents on the way out on the Monday morning.

mmclo

cL0h wrote: »

It's very easy to replace fibreglass tent poles and with the help of a mini hacksaw you can easily move poles between tents. It's not rocket science. The only hard bit is threading the cord back through the pole sections. Tent pole repair kits always include a long thin rod for this purpose. It's the only thing you need as everything else can be salvaged. Ask someone coming back from Oxygen to grab you one or two pole sections from broken (abandoned) tents on the way out on the Monday morning.

Thanks for that...how do I know the size?...just geuss by looking and trial and error? I got some poles in Millets but they are not fibre glass, is this jsut change in technology?

They seem to ahve some type of wire for hauling the cord through would this be right

I think a visit form my tenting brudder will be needed:)

cL0h

mmclo wrote: »

Thanks for that...how do I know the size?...just geuss by looking and trial and error? I got some poles in Millets but they are not fibre glass, is this jsut change in technology?

They seem to ahve some type of wire for hauling the cord through would this be right

I think a visit form my tenting brudder will be needed:)

When you say "size" do you mean length? That's what the hacksaw is for
As for width they are usually about 11mm thick. Similar sized tents have similar length and thickness of poles.

Sounds like you bought aluminium replacement poles.
Fibreglass poles are still around.