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Hi all. can anybody help, I have the above awning and when taking it down this time the rubber ends of the steel poles stayed behind in the outer sleeves.  These rubber ends are stuck onto the poles at the end  and I presume they help protect the caravan sides from the sharp ends of the poles. My problem is the rubber bits are stuck fast at the top of the sleeves and I dont know how to get them out, has anybody had this problem and how did they solve it. Many thanks for any help.

Sylvy

Thankyou for your reply, hubby has tried your suggestion but it seems as if the rubber bit is too narrow to get the pole back in, and as you cant see what you're doing its a bit difficult. If we manage to get the rubber out we will glue it on and hope that our glue holds fast.

Sylvy.

I managed to get the rubbers out using the following method. Get a length of stiff fence wire about the smae length as the pole.Make a right angld bend of approx. 6mm at one end. put this up the channel and with a little twist you can get this into the hole in the rubber. Pull out gently. I had this problem with two out of three poles on my awning.

Hope this is of help to others.