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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Cookie on September 28, 2015, 06:19:06 pm

Title: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: Cookie on September 28, 2015, 06:19:06 pm: I serviced my two Gardiners poles at the weekend, CLX-10 & CLX-22. I dismantled all the sections, removed the gooseneck, cleaned the insides & sprayed with the dry-film PTFE spray, (also supplied by Gardiners), where the sections join.

I managed to re-assemble the CLX-10 easily however when it came to fitting the gooseneck back into the CLX-22 I had a great deal of difficulty getting the gooseneck shaft completely into the top pole (see photo). As you can see I had also completely dismantled the top clamp and tried to prise it apart slightly. In the end I just had to use brute force - which is not ideal.

I don't remember having these problems when the pole was new (6 months or so ago). Does anyone have any tips on how I can make this job easier next time?

(http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/1443460166_IMG_20150919_123406007.jpg)
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: M & C Window Cleaning on September 28, 2015, 06:39:05 pm: Had to use sand paper on my gooseneck. I've also had to use it on the quick-loq components as no two seem to fit the same.
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: tlwcs on September 28, 2015, 06:47:24 pm: Snap, I had to sand mine down too
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: Cookie on September 28, 2015, 06:52:46 pm: Thanks guys for the advice.
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: rah on September 29, 2015, 06:38:22 am: I just fit until tight and have used without clamping in the past.
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: Paul erithwc on September 29, 2015, 07:47:28 am: Try changing the goose neck with the clx 10 they might have got mixed up.

Paul
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: Cookie on September 29, 2015, 08:29:58 am: Quote from: Paulwc on September 29, 2015, 07:47:28 am
Try changing the goose neck with the clx 10 they might have got mixed up.

Paul

Yes that's a possibility. However the goosenecks should be interchangeable between poles.
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: Richard Stevenson on September 30, 2015, 08:29:33 am: Try a bit of wd40 on goose neck.
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: windowswashed on October 01, 2015, 11:55:40 pm: Probably glue protruding on the inside of the clamp
Title: Re: Fitting Gardiners Goodeneck into Pole - There has to be an easier way ....
Post by: 8weekly on October 02, 2015, 06:45:07 am: The problem I had with a carbon gooseneck was that the quiklok socket was perhaps 3mm too small and the brushes wobbled about eventually wearing away. It only lasted 10 months.