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HELP: Removing Pole Grips
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soak in hot hot water to expand the grip from the pole & use the vice and pull hard
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put the pole in a vice, get a wrench. hold the wrench right where the grip meets pole and hit it with a hammer. grips will pop right off
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It's stuck on with a special glue. If you use a hair dryer to heat it up it will slide right off.
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maybe hes shortening his poles^
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you need to make something solid in the shape of a U where it slides through the pole but not the grip. stick the pole into this U and then pull it hard and the grip should just pop right off. there is no glue holding the grip on, or just bring it to your ski shop and they will have this grip remover U thing im talking about. i wish i had a picture right now.
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Somebody already asked this same question about 3 months ago. Don't listen to these other cats. YOu don't need a vise ar any special equipment. Soak the grips in really hot water for at least a half hour. THen gently twist and pull and the grips will slide right off.
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If you want to take the poles off super quick without soaking them in hot water. You can grab a flat screw driver, CAREFULLY slid it down the grip and spray a little WD-40 down there and it will slid right off. And a little trick to get the grip back on the pole is to put a little rubbing alcohol in the grip slid it on, then knock it down. The rubbing alcohol evaporates so it won't get stuck in the grip and it makes er' super easy to slid on. Try that, it seems to work well for me.
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what if they are old beater poles with plastic grips- like a handle???
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if its aluminum then blow dry just below the grip on the pole for a while and then it should just slide right off...(use a vice too) if anything else.. blow dry the grip but be sure u don't melt it and then it should come off using a vice as well
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some have a rubber pin at the top that locks them on. i like your icon
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you must work at a shop cuz i have the same thing at my work...and those shitty masters poles are the onlyones that have glue
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take a screwdriver, unscrew the screw at the top..
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yeah i did... and all this bullshit about soaking it and using a hair dryer is complete bullshit and a waste of time. they prolly wont even charge you if you just bring them to your shop anyways.
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put it in almost boiling hot water (not boiling just ALMOST) then they will become loose and you just pull em off they should come off pretty easy...
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ok, so once u get it off
how can i go about cutting down my poles?? just go at it with a saw? they are those bendy carbonfancythingers that isnt just plastic, woo i wanna shorten em
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Use a hand saw...but remember measure twice, cut once.
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heat it up then put it in between a door and the wall so the door is clamping it and pull a couple times. the most important part is to heat up the grip. either that or lube it down with a buch of ky and it should come off easy
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use an air gun and put it in the hole in the top after you pull the screw out the put the air on and pull the pole
i did it like 2 days ago and i worked
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use a hairdryer to heat the glue up so it lets go. then pry off the grip... works 60%of the time everytime
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if u want shorter poles just steal some rental ones..i duno
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some, like my K2s, the strap is constructed right into the pole itself under the grip
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yank the living fuck out of it
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or just get a mini pole cutter its sweet, you just put it in the hole, twist the thing 2 times and then 2 more times and then *bing* it gives u an even cut
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man i actually work in a ski shop as a tech... just put it in really hot water and it should just slip off, if it has glue you can just use a blowtorch or something to melt it most poles dont have glue though so it should just slide off
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warm the pole up so the glue is ready to come out, carefully insert it in something just tight enough to catch the bottom lip of the handle, then just start jerk'n away. You'll pop your grip off in no time.
PS. this can be done alone but it's much more fun if you solicit the help of a spry young lass to do some of the jerking for you
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