 Anyone else had problems with Easton aluminium poles? In the past six months i've had one sleeve crack open and tear the fly and another connector shear completely in two. Both incidents occured on flat tent pitches in campsites in calm weather. The tent is a North Face Himalayan designed for harsh environments so you can imagine my disgust!
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 Never heard of them - but that's not a good story!
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 Easton has made top quality tent poles for many years now and is used by many tent makers. I've used them frequently on several different brands of tents and have only ever had a few breakages. It sounds like you have faulty poles. Have you contacted The North Face? You could also try contacting Easton:
http://www.eastonpoles.com/mountain/default.htm
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 I had a saunders with an easton pole. It was broken in a gale. I sent it off for repair - they sent a new replacement back, with a note attached
"Our poles don't break, therefore yours must have been fault. Please accept this replacement and our apologies."
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 Easton are experts in doing things with ally and carbon tubes. They make imo the best carbon and ally arrows you can bye made to very high tourmalines. They have always been interested in any defects and quick to sort out any problems I don’t see why they would be any different with tent poles.
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 ... tourmalines?
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 I had a similar issue about 5 years ago with an easton pole Adrian, fortunatley i sent the pole back and the fly sheet to vango and they patched up the fly and replaced the whole pole. 2 years later it happened again on the other hoop.
I have a sneaky feeling that the way the tent is designed puts a little too much stress on the poles in the particular sector that they have both broken.
Saying that though on new years eve 2004 200m from the top of Scarfell my said tent was taking one hell of a battering...got flattened twice but no poles got snapped just slightly bent. So its just one of those things me thinks.
Send the pole back to TNF and the fly with a polite but stinky letter suggesting that Terra Nova or Mountain Hardwear will be getting your hard earnt £400 next time.
Drew
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Hi, I bought a Himalayan 47 second hand with DAC 9.8mm poles, so far three have snapped under no load whatsoever. TNF are no use as they can't even provide details of pole lengths... I'm wishing I'd kept my Spindrift.
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 [quote="Bearded Git"]... tourmalines?[/quote] tourmalines are a semi-precious gemstome. I must say, if Easton are getting into making gemstones, they would be better off making diamonds.
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What people tend to forget is that alloy poles can also get metal fatigue. From long use slowly little hair cracks will appear in the alloy. Finaly some poles will break during tent set-up or in a mild condition. About six years of almost continuous use (I mean with that 2 weekends in a month during 6 years) is about the expected life time of alloy poles. It might differ a bit between some A-brands (easton, DAC and Yunan). So if your tent lasts more than 6 six years and you already had a couple of breaking poles you might considering replacing the poles in total or buying a new tent. Replacing poles is a costly business since it's difficult to get complete poles from different A-brands, Easton is fairly good te become by (2 webshops in the US). the rest not. You can can occaisionly buy a A brand pole section with some retailers but you'll pay top price...
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 I broke a brand new pole last week on a lightwave tent during setup. I think that was Easton.
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lightwave uses DAC poles more specifically DAC Featherlite and DAC 7001 T6
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Mine say Easton on the side
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 > tourmalines are a semi-precious gemstome. Indeed. But, in context of the post: "They make imo the best carbon and ally arrows you can bye made to very high tourmalines" it made no sense at all. Tolerances was the word required, I think... As was 'buy'... <zombie thread alert> Chris: you could try Hampton Works for a new pole set. You could measure the exisiting poles, provided you still have the full set.
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 Replacing poles is a costly business since it's difficult to get complete poles from different A-brands, Easton is fairly good te become by (2 webshops in the US). the rest not. You can can occaisionly buy a A brand pole section with some retailers but you'll pay top price...
What URL's of these?
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Also has anyone tried flexible carbon fiber poles? http://www.fibraplex.com/
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I think Lightwave changed from Easton to DAC and your lightwave with Easton Poles are an older model. More brands changed from Easton to DAC. I know Hilleberg changed from Easton to DAC. The specs of DAC are also slightly better than Easton. But just slightly... Scandium poles of Yunan have better specs than DAC but are a bit more heavy, just slightly... Easton is fairly easy and cheap to become by. DAC is difficult, perhaps Shelby in finland is the only one with an reasonable price but still way to expensive compared to Easton. Scandium is virtually impossible to become by only way too much expensive by outdoor shops by buying spare sections for top price... Some links for poles (only Easton): www.questoutfitters.com
www.polesforyou.com DAC: http://www.shelby.fi/
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