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Fiberglass tent pole replacements (hexbear.net)
submitted 18 hours ago by microfiche@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Are there places where one can purchase aluminum tent poles or fiberglass poles with a larger wall size?

One of my tents, a Kelty Tanglewood 2, has split a second fiberglass pole on a camping trip this weekend while my daughter was sleeping in it.

I'm searching for a replacement, and I'd like to not give Kelty any more of my dollarydoos. The first one they seemed to begrudgingly send a pole by itself, but this time around they will not send a pole, they are requesting destruction of the tent, fly, and the other fiberglass pole before they will send me an entire fucking tent setup as a warranty replacement, with photo evidence.

That sounds like a terribly wasteful way to do business and frankly despite my second thoughts on purchasing Kelty products there isn't anything wrong w the tent/fly. I don't want to landfill a whole shredded tent because they won't warranty a lone pole.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 2 points 15 hours ago

Ya, when I was living out a pickup truck and a tent, I snapped poles pretty often due to wild Florida storms. Did a lot of mixing and matching. Coleman sells a kit of sorts iirc that I used a couple times, but eventually I was just pulling stuff out of trash and thrift stores.