Get a galvanized bucket handle and wrap it around a large bolt. Tap it around with a hammer to make the tight bend. Put one end in your pole and wedge it with a screw.
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Gloomis51
I'm wanting to make a homemade lure retriever. I already have a 24' telescoping painters pole, but I need to find the spiral tip to put on it. It would be nice to have one that screwed on, but even if it doesn't that would be fine. Anyone know where to find one??
A-Jay
Can't help you with your spiral tip search. Perhaps stop by the Introduction Forum and share some of your particulars: the who, what, where, when & how of Gloomis51.
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