How to Choose Telescopic Tools?

How do you "choose the right telescopic pole for your project"? If you browse through our catalog, you will be overwhelmed by our extension pole product lines.

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Different lengths, materials, threaded ends, fluted, fixed lengths - the list of options goes on and on. With so many different extension poles to choose from, we thought it would be helpful if we provided a help guide.

Start by asking yourself these three questions.

What will I be using the telescopic pole for? How often will I use it? How high or how far do I need to reach? The answers to these questions will help you narrow down your choices.

An example: A homeowner will be painting the exterior of their home this summer. They will want to use the pole to paint the inside of their home sometime later this year. Their home is two stories and they have a cathedral ceiling at the entrance of their home.

Because of the multiple uses and high range needed, you will need to choose either a heavy duty or professional type extension pole. In addition, the following rule of thumb applies when determining the length of extension pole to purchase.

Your height minus 6 inches, plus the length of a fully extended pole, tells you how high you can reach with a pole of that length. Most two-story homes will require you to use an extension pole of at least 18 feet.

A heavier fiberglass pole suitable for painting may not be the best choice if you intend to use it for dusting only. For dusting, you can choose lightweight aluminum or steel extension poles.

When choosing between aluminum or steel rods, most aluminum rods and sliders are anodized to prevent rusting and provide smooth extensions. Steel rods will rust over time, so if your application requires contact with water, do not purchase steel rods.

Water Fed Pole System

If you have a task that requires water, Extentool offers carbon fiber water fed pole system and aluminum telescopic pole for water fed pole system window cleaning.

Telescopic water poles that can be used in many different outdoor cleaning situations. The extension pole can be connected to a standard garden hose via a flow control shut-off valve.

Advantages of Water Fed Pole System

1. Water fed pole brush,with Nylon bristles water flow through brush and angel adjustment,it can achieve multi-angle adjustment to meet the needs of cleaning small flat surfaces.

2. The surface of the tube wall is very smooth, and the material is aluminum with anodizing, so it is very easy to use.

Water Fed Pole System

3. The structural design of the telescoping pole focuses on pursuing simplicity, and all parts are reinforced, so the failure rate of the product is very low.

4. The telescopic water fed pole brush bristles with a height of 6cm (2.4inch),and the telescopic pole size usually is 18/20/24/30/36 feet,we also accept customized.

Using various styles of telescopic water fed pole brush, you can clean decks, siding, decks, windows, boats, RVs, cars, masonry and many other surfaces. Using a flow-thru angle adaptor you can also clean gutters or water hanging plants.

Hello,

I want to buy a set of Telescopic Bore Gauges. There are scores of sub 20 quid ones from China, and those I've handled were somewhat rough and graunchy as you might expect. There are also those from Starrett, Mitutoyo, Moore & Wright, etc, starting at around 150 quid.

Kennedy have some around the 80 quid mark. Does anyone have experience of these? Or any others around this price?

Hi Bo'sun

I have a set of cheap ones double sided ones – graunchy when bought as you descibe but taken apart and all edges stoned made a remarkable improvement on their usability such that I disposed of my one side Moore and Wright ones to a friend.

I've done some pretty accurate measurement on bores with them – I find then totally acceptable now they have been tweaked

Tug

Telescopic bore gauges seem to be one example of where decent quality used but looked after is better than brand new. Run in rather than worn out seems to be the thing.

I have a cheap import set bought as being all I could afford on first job wages which is rough to handle and very hard to get good results from.

I also have a couple of M&W sets bought used, one with 3 gauges and one with 5 plus some odd Starrett and M&W ones obtained somehow. Probably a "I'm throwing the box out, anything you can use?" type source. The big ones in the 5 piece M&W set have very little use and are noticeably less smooth than the more used ones but still way, way better than the imports.

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The nicest one is a vey well used and, when dug out of a throwaway box, somewhat rusty Starrett. I nearly didn't keep it but it filled the gap in my odd ones collection so I cleaned it up with gratifying results. Officially my tooling / measuring "odd ones" sets are loaners to ensure my good ones don't get abused but I'm not sure that I want to lend this one.

Clive

I want to buy a set of Telescopic Bore Gauges.

‘I want’ or ‘I need’? I bought a set from Arc, but they are actually rarely used.

I make so few holes of any specific diameter that I could quite easily do without them. I reckon drill shanks for go-no go are often close enough or make a go – no go with a piece of scrap (or re-usable bar). If it was important, I would change the chuck (to the smallest I have) and turn a piece to the required size, then change chuck's back again.

I rarely finish-bore holes to size. Drilled, bored and reamed is generally a better way to go, I reckon (or just make a nominally sized hole and make the shaft to fit…). Most certainly I would not trust them for a shrink fit. I do have a micrometer type of bore gauges (used for checking engine bores for ovality).

At the time ( think) I bought a set of transfer punches – another item I used to happily get by without. They don’t get used often but they get more use than the bore gauges.

For a while, I have thought I might like a spin indexer. Saw a second hand one on epay recently. Watched it and it sold for more than an identical brand new one. I had decided I didn’t really need one (especially not one costing more than a new item