aksbor wrote:Thanks Franco - great idea to chase shops for spares - Here in Sydney, I have already been quoted $12 per segment to have new ones made up - based on Corvus' measurements (Thanks heaps), that'd make it $300-400 worth. I'll start doing the rounds tomorrow...
Thanks guys
AndyB
That sounds outrageously expensive. You could get a half-decent tent, complete, for that price. Another $100 dollars and you've got a really decent tent. (from some online retailers, you wouldn't need even that much).
If you can buy lengths of the the poles yourself, they're quite easy to cut them down to fit your specific measurements. I did this with my old tent about 20 years ago, after lending it out to somebody and getting it back with all the fibre-glass poles broken. It was a good opportunity to replace them with metal poles, and they were really easy to cut and fit them. The most difficult part was threading the elastic back through.
I've still got several spare segments (sorry, probably not enough to make a full pole length).