Author Topic: Frabill Ice tent poles.  (Read 1746 times)

Offline BigO

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Frabill Ice tent poles.
« on: Mar 07, 2020, 12:22 AM »
I have a 4 man and 6 man Frabill ice tent. Awesome tents but fragile poles.
Anyone know where you can buy or find poles. Frabill says poles are not available until May as they have to come from the factory in China.
Hopefully won’t need the tent much anymore this season but would be nice to have it ready with poles.

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Re: Frabill Ice tent poles.
« Reply #1 on: Mar 07, 2020, 08:23 AM »
I know guys that have made them out of driveway markers.  Might get ya through the season.

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Re: Frabill Ice tent poles.
« Reply #2 on: Mar 07, 2020, 09:25 AM »
never had to make any, but i have heard of people that had to and they used chimney sweep poles/extensions.
sand/file down the end if it's too big to go into the old hardware and glue it in.

maybe another brand pole would fit. buy it too long and remove hardware, cut it down and use your old hardware.

Offline BigO

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Re: Frabill Ice tent poles.
« Reply #3 on: Mar 07, 2020, 09:27 PM »
Some great ideas. Thanks boys.

Offline BigO

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Re: Frabill Ice tent poles.
« Reply #4 on: Mar 07, 2020, 09:33 PM »
Some great ideas. Thanks boys.

Offline 350 Mag

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Re: Frabill Ice tent poles.
« Reply #5 on: Mar 08, 2020, 07:32 AM »
I have made replacement polesnoutnof old dome tents.

So when you goto dump or look on Kijiji for cheap dome tent....get the poles.

I had an old dome tent years ago that was trashed but kept the poles in garage.  Used 2 last year to repair my ice tent.  all I had to was drill out rivet holding the broken pole in the socket.  Put new pole in drill a hole and put a new rivet (,or bolt) through and done.

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Re: Frabill Ice tent poles.
« Reply #6 on: Mar 08, 2020, 07:36 AM »
Give a man a fish he eats for a day .Teach a man to ice fish he has an obsession for a lifetime

 



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