Just cut the top section back till a piece of 3-4"unger alu just fits inside and glue it in. Then tape it up as in the World Pole topic on your site, you need patience and it takes two weeks to break it in but as a hobby pole its great fun as you can extend from any section. But I am defo going to have one of the new lightweight telscopic C/F or Peters fast whip up new pole, Moneys no problem its the health issue when its down to using it day in and day out.