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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: clean on November 12, 2007, 07:03:08 pm

Title: Unger`s new poles
Post by: clean on November 12, 2007, 07:03:08 pm
Has anyone esle heard Unger have new poles out,they look very much like the extel poles but with a typical higher Unger price tag
http://www.wintecs.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=58_52_73_103
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Jeff Brimble on November 12, 2007, 07:29:20 pm
Just a mini version of the carbon tec but at last cheaper. Taps in the same stupid place.
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: clean on November 12, 2007, 07:31:39 pm
Just a mini version of the carbon tec but at last cheaper. Taps in the same stupid place.

No Jeff,you must be looking at he wrong poles,they are telescopic with inner pole hose  ;)
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Alex Gardiner on November 12, 2007, 07:34:11 pm
They are just Exel's X-Tel range in green with a Vikan Mono-Filament brush on the end.
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: jouk45 on November 12, 2007, 07:39:26 pm
wow and they want near £300, what a rip of  >:(
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Jeff Brimble on November 12, 2007, 07:47:55 pm
Thanks Clean, just going by a pic in Cleaning Matters.
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: ian m on November 12, 2007, 08:14:23 pm
My mate purchased one of these from wcw last week.

It has flocked brush  and is a bit heavier than thex tel as well


ian

 
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: macmac on November 12, 2007, 08:21:22 pm
I always said unger dropped a clanger with that hideous modular pole, they've missed a real oppertunity in the market & it seems they are now trying to climb out of a big hole. :-\

tony
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: NWH on November 12, 2007, 08:35:22 pm
Wow a hybrid pole in green,so what.
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Jeff Brimble on November 15, 2007, 06:41:56 pm
Just a mini version of the carbon tec but at last cheaper. Taps in the same stupid place.

No Jeff,you must be looking at he wrong poles,they are telescopic with inner pole hose  ;)
New I had seen it somewhere.... C&M mag....
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"The best tools can prove costly. A solution to this is a more compact and affordable version such as the six section HiFlo Carbon Tec waterfed pole system from Unger. The new six section kit boasts a max height of 9 metres(29ft) and further sections can be purchased as and when required, adding 1.5m in length each time and attaining max height of 15 metres. Supplied in a nylon gear bag." etc etc
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Captain Scarlet on November 15, 2007, 06:50:06 pm
The pole in the link is exactly the same as the xtels glassfibre and hybrids, same clamps etc etc and with a brush that looks identical to the vikan mono. Are unger stuck in the past? You would think they could come up with something a little better! Luke
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Captain Scarlet on November 15, 2007, 06:55:38 pm
And what a rip off, the glassfibre 17ft is £115 compared with £65 at Gardiners!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Jeff Brimble on November 15, 2007, 07:01:42 pm
Heres the pictures and link for the new modular Unger Hi Flo Carbontec - no I aint getting paid  :) not the glassfibre ones.
http://ungerwindowcleaner.com/carbontec/
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Wayne Thomas on November 15, 2007, 07:29:20 pm
'Unger' should take a leaf out of 'Tucker's' book and re-vamp the Hi-Flow Carbon Tec poles.
Tucker poles are much better now that they are fitted with 'pennel' clamps instead of 'worm gear' clamps so why can't Unger do something similar with their Hi-Flow poles.
Ungers pole has a heavy on/off tap connection which weighs 1kg which could and should have been made from aluminium not steel and the same applies to all the screw together connections at the top and bottom of each section.
If they were made of aluminium it would be a wickedly strong, rigid and light-ish pole that would give the 'new Supalite' pole from Gardiners a run for it's money.
Title: Re: Unger`s new poles
Post by: Sir Squeaky on November 15, 2007, 08:17:25 pm
And what a rip off, the glassfibre 17ft is £115 compared with £65 at Gardiners!!!!!!!!
You needed telling that (d)Unger are a rip off? :o

Poorest quality tools and some of the highest prices.