you could make your own end stops with tape, however as facelift said above, freedom, i am at the moment using a supermax 45 taken down to a 30 footish slx pole and i suits me great without the end stops i can add the longer section when i need it (about once every 300 years) when you use the pole everyday you just know where to extended i to i guess. im gunna get one of these 18 footers though for definate my small clx has just about had it i think, but what a good work horse it was, used every day for two years ! it started off red and is nearly black now :-)