[Avo]

God I get bored from time to time so Sunday I converted this fishing pole into water fed and I must say I like it..
Super super light and rigid it made this fascia clean so easy, it's main intention was commercial cleaning for long periods saving my arms.

[CleanClear]

i done one too, Ron Thompson Gangster pole. They are really good, delicate but great to work with.

[Tom White]

We were all at this a few years back.  A good tip is to put some electricians tape just below each of the sections where they join to act as a 'stop', because they can be a real bugger to pull apart when they get jammed.

Nice poles though; they're very light, very stiff, the short pole makes a great ground floor pole - the only downside is moving from A to B with a couple of sections in one hand, reel hose in the other, and then you have to open a gate or something.

I quite fancy making another, for a change from my SLX.  Can anyone recommend a cheap fishing pole that'd give me about 18 foot of usable pole?  I can't remember the common makes or lengths we used to us.

[CleanClear]

http://www.tackle2u.com/pole-fishing/match-coarse-carp-poles/ron-thompson-rt-carp-gangster-11m-pole-star-buy/flypage.tpl.html




There was a place in Derby that sold online too, they had some great poles very cheap. They also had you tube demos of them, i had a quick look and couldn;t find them again. Ron Thompson Gangsters are the ones jeff and the others used (me too). They went for MAP poles after that for greater height, but the prices climb into the hundreds then, Anyway, that one i linked is 50 odd quid, should get you 20 odd foot. If you go Googling for them you need to be looking for Carp Poles as opposed to Match poles or whatever..................

[Rob@Blast off]

Would it be possible to use them as gutter vac poles?

[paulben]

Any links to making one or do you just ditch top section just that got one 4 storey house didn't want to spend a fortune just for one job once a month

[Avo]

Bought it on eBay last year for the use of using the bottom 2 sections as gutter poles which work great.. So thought rather than waste the rest I'd make it wfp.. Be perfect for occasional use solar cleaning or velux windows set right back, it has no sag in the middle like my slx30.

[AuRavelling79]

I did this after my Unger aluminium and before going SLX. Used to carry the sections in a golf bag/trolley. Worked well except:

Snapped when closing stiff windows - easily repaired though by sliding the broken sections over one another and gluing and gaffering. And I had one custy and his wife on one end and me on the other all wearing rubber gloves trying to separate two sections. (Sounds like something you might get arrested for!)

[Tom White]

Any links to making one or do you just ditch top section just that got one 4 storey house didn't want to spend a fortune just for one job once a month

From memory, I think you ditch a few of the top sections.  Maybe three-or-four of them?

[Spruce]

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=63920.msg552775#msg552775

I think we ended up with 5 usable sections and a short 6th for the brush adaptor.  We used duck tape to stop the sections seizing.

It was a good cheap introduction into carbon fibre poles but I can't count the number of times we left a disguarded section behind and had to go back and look for it.  In the end a telescopic pole was much quicker and more convenient to use.

We still have one on son's van and the other in the garage.

[Spruce]

I did this after my Unger aluminium and before going SLX. Used to carry the sections in a golf bag/trolley. Worked well except:

Snapped when closing stiff windows - easily repaired though by sliding the broken sections over one another and gluing and gaffering. And I had one custy and his wife on one end and me on the other all wearing rubber gloves trying to separate two sections. (Sounds like something you might get arrested for!)

We 'travelled' the same route. 

And you needed a Bentley brush as it was very light. Terrible brush but good combination.
 

[rosskesava]

I might buy one of them for sofits and facias.

No matter what pole you use, after 10 or 15 minutes it's arm ache all the way so anything that's lighter has to be better.

The Bentley brush - they did the job though. Just.

[Spruce]

I might buy one of them for sofits and facias.

No matter what pole you use, after 10 or 15 minutes it's arm ache all the way so anything that's lighter has to be better.

The Bentley brush - they did the job though. Just.

  Those were the days.

Some seemed to work better than others. We found that they worked better once a lot of the flocking of the bristles wore away.

They became to stiff when the water was very cold and they didn't splay on the windows.  My last attempt was to cut some of the bristles back a bit in the centre like the dual trim brush today. I never got to put it on the pole as Alex just launched his Superlite range and they arrived that morning. I put one of those on and as they were far better than anything we had used before, it stayed on.  (By far better I mean that they were lighter than the Vikan ovals although the Vikan was still the best on leaded windows.)

I think the brush stock of the Bentley still takes some beating.

[Mist A Bit]

I was very interested in this fishing pole idea a few years back. Wanted to make a 60ft pole, I've heard it can be done but still Dont know how, never been near a fishing rod in my life

[mlscontractcleaner]

I paid over a thousand quid for my fishing pole at 16 meters; think I'll use it for it's intended purpose.

WFP's are so flippin cheap now what's the point in arsing about converting a thin walled fishing pole?

[s.w.c]

Fishing poles wow that brings back memories,  be gentle they break easily.