Replacing Lost Or Damaged Tent Poles

When you buy your brand new tent it will come with the poles necessary to enable you to erect your tent

. The poles are used to construct a frame around which your tent is hung, some of these assemblies are simple, others, particularly on larger family tents can be complex but will produce a strong, stable structure onto which to secure the tent.

However, over time and with increasing use you will find that some poles become broken, bent or even lost and so you will have to replace them. So how should you go about replacing a tent pole?

The first question is what material are your tent poles made from. There are three possibilities and to try and make do with a different sort would seriously impact the strength and general functionality of your tent. The three types are:

Fibre Glass. Fibreglass tent pole segments are non-metallic and so are flexible yet strong

Alloy. Alloy tent pole segments are the lightest and so tend to be associated with light weight tents for campers who like to stay mobile

Steel. Steel is the strongest but is also the heaviest and so this type of tent pole tends to be used in family tents

Once you have established what material your poles are, next assemble the tent and see where the damaged pole fits and how it connects with the adjoining pieces. Alloy sections often screw together but with fibreglass ferules (sleeves into which different sections fit) are used. It may be that you will need to order extra ferules to be able to affect the repair.

Next measure the diameter of your tent poles. You can then order what you need and poles are supplied in standard lengths longer than you will need so that you can cut them down to size with a hack saw.

Fibreglass and alloy poles will have elastic in their centres and so in order to affect a repair this will need removing whilst you replace the damaged section. This will entail untying or even cutting off the end that keeps the elastic in place. It is likely that for a fibreglass tent pole you will need a pole threader to help remove and then rethread the elastic back through once the repair is made. Obviously once the elastic is removed you can replace the damaged section but be careful to note what order it all needs re-assembling in.

It might be that the elastic inside the pole has also snapped and so you will need to buy some new elastic and thread this through the centre of the pole. In this case it might be simpler to also buy a tent pole repair kit such as the Coghlan's Tent Pole Repair Kit which is a very useful addition to your camping equipment. It contains everything you need to fix a broken pole including elastics and ferrules. It even has a piece of wire to thread the new shock cord through the centre of the pole.

Finally, once you have made your repair, re-assemble your tent to check all works well, rather than discovering a problem when you arrive at the camp site on your next camping trip

by: Bruno Blackstone

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