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Topic: Awning Pole Adjusting Clamps

spiny

18/6/2011 at 1:32pm
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Hello peeps, hopefully someone out there can help me!
I'm trying to find something similar to the Awning Pole Adjustment Clamps seen here but I need something a little larger than anything I can find online.
I intend to use them to repair the legs on my trailer tent kitchen, the legs are the telescopic steel tubing type, approx 20mm square, which slide in to a 25mm square steel tubing sleeve and are held in position with a thumbscrew. My problem is that the thread in the thumbscrew holes in the sleeve has been stripped and I need to find something which will hold the legs in position. I've done the maths and I estimate I need a pole clamp which will fit at least a 35mm round pole, but I'll be damned if I can find any

Can anyone point me in the right direction to lay my hands on something suitable, or maybe even suggest an alternative repair method?
All suggestions most welcome, I really will consider anything as the only option I have at the moment is a "G-Clamp" which the wife is none too keen on.
Thanks in anticipation,
Spiny.

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Dave60438

18/6/2011 at 2:24pm
Location: Leicester
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Could you not get someone to braze or weld a nut onto the leg the right size for the thumbscrew. you may have to drill out the original hole to allow clearance

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spiny

18/6/2011 at 2:37pm
Location: Liversedge West Yorkshire
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Thanks for suggestion Dave, but the previous owner has already tried that method, and apart from the fact it has failed again it looks damned awful too. One nut has completely fallen off already & the other 3 look like they could let go at any time. I realise this could be the result of poor workmanship, but I just think the pole clamp solution or something similar would be a much cheaper option & a lot less fiddly.
Also, the previous owner has lost/misplaced the original thumbscrews and replaced them with 2 bolts welded in a "T" shape, so I would be having to buy thumbscrews as well

Cheers anyway,
Spiny.

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rochford6

18/6/2011 at 2:40pm
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what about a large heavy duty Jubilee clip with a butterfly handle, easy to do up and take apart.

Something like These

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spiny

18/6/2011 at 2:47pm
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I hear you brian,
but the sleeve is too thick to squeeze on to the leg, it needs a screw to hold it in place. I had considered this option with the jubilee clip tightened around the leg, which would hold the legs in place whilst standing, but once i try to lift the kitchen back onto the trailer things could get messy when the legs start falling off whilst I'm moving it.
Thanks anyway,
Spiny.

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janus

18/6/2011 at 3:13pm
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Go to an iron mongers and buy a suitable thumbscrew and a tap that are slightly larger than the hole that is there and then drill out the original hole and put the tap through and you will have poles that are like new.

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andy2244

18/6/2011 at 7:35pm
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You could always drill a series of holes in the post, up and down of level, and put a pin through. then a couple of bits of wood for packing.

andy

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