Pole lubrication

[Stoneman]

What can be used for pole lubrication on a portable that won't leave a mess on the poles, or hands???Tks

[kg2]

KY jelly? (sorry, low brow)

[chad austin]

What can be used for pole lubrication on a portable that won't leave a mess on the poles, or hands???Tks

Try cleaning them with steel wool. I do this on my Eskimo QF 2 once a year and it works better than spraying anything on the poles.

[mccullen]

I just use sand paper. To get into your receiver poles I take a dowel and stick my sand paper onto the dowel and shove it up the receiver poles. Of course this works best with the round poles. The sand paper I use has the peel off paper with tape on the back. I've done this to my quick flip 3 and just got a used pro scout and that bad boy had a horrible time sliding. Now it's a ton better.

[walleye44]

I not sure what it is called but cross country ski wax might work great for it.

[BartmanMN]

KY jelly? (sorry, low brow)

Heat resistant, but not good in the cold.

[Crappyfisherman]

This is what I do. Take a 12 ga. shot gun cleaning rod with the brass wire brush

and put it in a drill, strick it in the tubes and that really cleans them out.

Use emery cloth to round off the sharp edge on the inside of the outer tubes and the outside of the inner tubes (its the sharpe edges that make them stick.Then spray silicon spray in the tubes and let it dry.

[harvey lee]

The only thing I have ever had to use on my Otter poles is steel wool.

On my Canvas craft with the round poles, they work so well that nothing is needed to make them slide. Simply awesome poles.

[midwesthunter]

How about using Remington Rem-Drilube. Its a dry lube with teflon. I haven't tried it yet but I don't see why it wouldn't work

[ikona]

I spray my poles down with a chain wax, I also use it on the zippers seems to work fine

[CAMAN]

I use spray silicone and it works great.

[hovermn]

I fought some otter square poles for every second of the 3 seasons I had my Cottage. When it came time to sell it, I figured no one would want a house that you had to fight tooth and nail to expand and collapse, so I used a graphite spray lube moments before showing it. It's a dry lube once the carrier they use evaporates. Instantly, and I mean INSTANTLY, it solved the problem. Suddenly the poles telescoped just like butta...for the last 15 minutes of my ownership.