Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Count Phil on August 13, 2007, 04:54:34 pm
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Does anyone know what this thing weighs? Not that I'm about to get one, just pure curiosity. Is it lighter than standard carbon poles or not?
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I just found out it weighs 12kg. That sounds alot to me....
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Well made though.
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Ok, at least it was a reply :)
Got to be an in betweenie kinda weight...
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From Pros.
UNGER Carbon Tec provisional weights, thanks to Chris
goose neck and 16 inch brush weighed 2 pounds and 1 section weighed a little under 2 pounds so 10x 6ft 60ft pole sections weigh 20lbs + brush assembly= 22lbs/9.9kg
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So at 30ft it will be around 5.5kg? That's not very light at all..... Thats glass fibre territory. That sounds heavy for well over a grand....... I'm sure my 30 ft multipole is around that and that weighs a ton when working with it . Oh well, no wonder they don't post the weights anywhere...
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As I said before it is well made though.....but that's all I can recommend it for.
The gooseneck and brush arrangement weigh about 700g on it's own. Each section not only is made of Carbon fibre but also has an insulating wrap of fibre glass and resin (not that this will do any good if you hit the aluminium head on a wire as it will travel down the water and electrify the aluminium connection on each section, chances are you will get fried anyway), you then have a very solid aluminium connector top and bottom of each section.
I tried one out with just a few sections connected and found that it was overly heavy and not as stiff as could be hoped for. It does offer you the ability to have just one pole in your vehicle though (you would need a big van to hold it in it's holdall). I think that I had worked out that a 45ft would weigh about 9kg.
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forget it, buy this instead. I spoke to them the other day and Unger tried to buy their design but they refused to sell. The are made from kevlar and carbon, the water travels up the sections similar to the Unger, the man told me they have never had any complaints about it and just look at the specs, they cost £1300 for a 45ft one, so I will be waiting for Gardiners new superlite!
http://www.carbonized.co.uk/catalog.html
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or use these from here
http://lewi.de/content/view/12/27/lang,en/
(http://lewi.de/albums/Puraqleen/pura2.jpg)
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(http://lewi.de/albums/Puraqleen/carbonverbindung.jpg)
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Hmmmm. Actually, the carbonized on is several hundred pounds cheaper than the unger one.
I wonder what that weighs? on their website it weighs xxx.
I was expecting 7ish kgs for the full pole. But over 9 is rubbish for that money. You could buy like five fishing poles.
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Oh. The carbonized is about 6.9kg for 15metres so its over two kgs lighter than unger, has the same benifits and is cheaper. But still alot.
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Forget them all, any modular, unless you are working on jobs like in the pics, thats all they are good for. domestic? nooooooooooo way.
tony
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I prefer them, except on a few jobs. Even on domestic. Saves so much time once you get the hang of them.