Home made handle pole...???

[Liquid Graffix]

For those of you who have done this before, what diameter and thickness of aluminum did you use????

Pics would be great too if you got em!

Thanx-

 

[Liquid Graffix]

...no one has made they're own?

 

[suva]

I made one out of stainless once, I don't remember exactly how thick the wall was but it was pretty thin. It was leftover tube for railing. You could probably get away with pretty thin aluminum too if you designed it correctly.

 

[Liquid Graffix]

Thanx for the pic! That's pretty much what I want to do. Did you have any issues with it bending at all being so thin?

 

[tnj4life]

Heres one foximous built, pretty sweet. Maybe he will chime in.

 

[Liquid Graffix]

Oooooooohhhhhhh thats purdy!

 

[tnj4life]

I thought he done a heck of a job, if he reads this his pride may swell, haha.

 

[tnj4life]

Heres you a custom repaired pole, lol. I traded a js550 quicktrun plate for it. Maybe my local welder can fix it.

 

[LIVE2RIDE Powersports]

Heres you a custom repaired pole, lol. I traded a js550 quicktrun plate for it. Maybe my local welder can fix it.

Did you trade lakeskater for that? LOL

Goose pole.

 

[tnj4life]

How'd you know? Its pretty huh. Im gonna get it fixed and throw it on our js. Nice goose.

 

[LIVE2RIDE Powersports]

How'd you know? Its pretty huh. Im gonna get it fixed and throw it on our js. Nice goose.

He sent me pics when he was trying to sell it. Wanted 125 for it. LOL

I told him i was sorry and that it was worth 25 shipped to me since i didn't need it.

 

[suva]

Thanx for the pic! That's pretty much what I want to do. Did you have any issues with it bending at all being so thin?

No. In fact I don't think it would be possible to break it without something catastophic happening first. I noticed we still have a chunk of it so I measured the wall- it's about 1/16" .

Does anybody know how thick the tubes on a RRP are?

 

[Liquid Graffix]

How bout the OD? I was thinking somewhere around 2 - 2 1/2 inches maybe?

Ha Ha, here's my ghetto fix on a SN a while back just to get me on the water:

 

[suva]

It's 1 1/2. If I were to actually buy materials I would have gone 2".

 

[Liquid Graffix]

gracias!

 

[750sux]

i think those home made poles would look alot better if they has a small bend down near the top

 

[LIVE2RIDE Powersports]

i think those home made poles would look alot better if they has a small bend down near the top

I thought about that, but IMO i like them straight after viewing pics the last year or so.

 

[Foximus]

Blah... RRP poles are so thick... I think they look goofy at how beefy they are. I made mine out of smaller diameter and thicker wall as I like the long and lean look. And its adjustable similar to the RRP pole as the inner tubes are sleeve fit into the outers and are clamped down. Since I used thicker wall tubing (3/16 if i remember correctly), I was able to cut nice big juicey beveled holes for the cables to run through.


As for the goose poles, they are really to thin. he has to drill the holes for the cables very small (so if you lose those gromets you eat your cables up pronto) to retain his wall strength... cut them bigger and you will see the poles torque. And the subplates on them are silly huge and unbraced.

 

[Liquid Graffix]

FOX - did you use stock bushings for the pole bolt going through?

 

[Foximus]

The hole in the pole is drilled ~1mm over and I'm using a piece of brass tubing sleeved over the pivot bolt, to make up for the perfect snug fit. This allows the pole bolt to be tightened very tight and never have the stainless bolt wobble out the pole holes. On the outside of that I'm using stock kawi 550 polyurethane spacers.