I'd just like to say "thank you" for the referral to Tent Spares. I have, rather stupidly, broken four poles in my Outwell Hartford XL set and was a little bit clueless as to the best replacement. I seem to remember there being an issue about the replacement pole in my Nevada M set having the metal ferrule already glued on and being a different size at the connecting side - meaning the repair took a great deal longer and was complicated. The spec says the tent has 8.5 mm, 11 mm and 12.5 mm poles though it doesn't say which ones go where! I'm assuming that the small ones are for the yellow coded bedroom poles, the 11 mm ones are for the blue coded bedroom poles and the panorama room poles and that the 12.5 mm ones are for the main dome poles, though I will, of course, check this out properly. I'm fairly confident that the 11 mm ones are the ones I've broken most of, though, and I've ordered five from Tent Spares. I'm asking them if they can supply three 12.5 mm ones because they don't have those listed and I need at least one.
We have had a summer of storms, if you erected your tent properly and abstained from kicking it between the wine and bedtime there is nothing stupid on your part on the breaking of poles. A broken pole is a failure on the part of the tent designer not on the part of the camper.
The designer chose the poles you were supplied, it is his fault if they are substandard or not able to cope with the forces of the weather.
Unless you camped in the mountains you did not need a mountain tent and the tent you bought should have survived a summer storm in England or France.
PS I need to replace a porch pole on my Lichfield Apache 3, it is a bit split and shredded at one end, held together with first aid tape.
I have always understood that the fibres of ordinary fibreglass poles are straight down the length of the pole whereas Durawrap and other similar brands of pole have the fibres plaited or criss-crossing (however they do it) and this makes them stronger. However, all poles have their breaking point and most family tents are not intended for use in severe gale force conditions.
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Topic: Broken Poles
