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Unger`s new poles
« 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

Jeff Brimble

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #1 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.

clean

Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #2 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  ;)

Alex Gardiner

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #3 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.

jouk45

Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2007, 07:39:26 pm »
wow and they want near £300, what a rip of  >:(

Jeff Brimble

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2007, 07:47:55 pm »
Thanks Clean, just going by a pic in Cleaning Matters.

ian m

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #6 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

 
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macmac

Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #7 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

NWH

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2007, 08:35:22 pm »
Wow a hybrid pole in green,so what.

Jeff Brimble

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #9 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

Captain Scarlet

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #10 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
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Captain Scarlet

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2007, 06:55:38 pm »
And what a rip off, the glassfibre 17ft is £115 compared with £65 at Gardiners!!!!!!!!
Ffenest ( est 2007 ) is a fully insured premium quality window cleaning service based at Llandderfel near Bala. All our work is guaranteed, rain or shine, year round.

Jeff Brimble

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #12 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/

Wayne Thomas

Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #13 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.

Sir Squeaky

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Re: Unger`s new poles
« Reply #14 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

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