[pct-l] Trail Gear - Pole Tips

[Robert Henry]

My experience with Leki's was essentially identical.  Bring water to boil,
put pole tip into water.  Wait a bit.  Use some rope/parachute
cord/strapping to quickly wrap around the hot wet plastic, and twist like
mad.  It works best with 2 people counter rotating and pulling.  The
plastic is supposedly a thermo-plastic which will expand when hot.  I had
to field replace the pole tips 2 times in 2012, and after some angst about
how to do it, it proved to be very simple, and I didn't actually have to
use the pliers in my wife's car the first time I did it in Tahoe:)  The
pole tips themselves are Tungsten/Carbide so effectively don't wear out,
but the adhesive and mechanicals that hold the tungsten carbide into the
plastic wear out, and you'll lose the tip proper.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Dan McKean <danlmarmot at gmail.com> wrote:

> Soaking the tips of trekking poles in very hot water (170F) for a few
> minutes might soften the glue so the tips can be replaced without too much
> bother.
>
> I just did this with a pair of Black Diamond poles and put replacement
> Leki tips on them.
>
> Dan
>
> > On Feb 10, 2015, at 19:08, Marion Davison <mardav at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > We hike with old ski poles with Leki tips added.  We carry spare tips.
> Ray has replaced them in the field several times, by carving off the old
> tip (the plastic part) and hammering on the new ones with whatever is
> available.  He found a picnic table very handy for this operation on one
> occasion.
> > Why old ski poles, you may ask?  I hike with llamas and they frequently
> step on my poles.  They haven't been able to break my ski poles. I would be
> so pissed if they broke a hundred dollar trekking pole, and besides, I
> can't hike without my poles because I have bad knees.  So I need durable
> poles.
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