Help remove BD Traverse Ski Pile Handle

[margotron]

Sick of straps. Want to replace with some old gauntlet handles. Handle won't budge :-\


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[3PinGrin]

Did you try submerging the grip in boiling water for a bit?

[Reformed]

Heat gun. You can remove the straps from BD grips too if you don't mind the grip/just want to get rid of the straps.

[rob stokes]

Are they the older style blue or red ones like the picture below?

If so dip em in hot water for a while then hammer them off.

And, if you do replace them, can I have them please? Love those handles and swapped a pair between random alu rental poles for years till I lost one in a small slide.


Edit, I can’t post pictures on here anymore? I’m talking of the older handles like these- https://www.campsaver.com/black-diam...-shed2366.html

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[caulfield]

Definitely the boil, but I'm guessing you've started with that and still no motion? My method after boiling is to clamp the handle in a vise with soft jaws and wrap some old bicycle or moto tube around the shaft a couple times and twist from that

[XXX-er]

I get pole handles off by putting the pole between 2 skis or 2x4's and pulling back fast n hard

don't they have a screw on top, does that work some kind of expanding plug ?

[margotron]

I get off by putting the pole between 2 skis or 2x4's and pulling back fast n hard

yikes. arent you worried about splinters?

[LightRanger]

Anybody tried the BD releasable straps? I like skiing with straps (old nordic habit, I think). But am obviously concerned about the various things that can happen with straps that don't release. I need to use my Leki Triggers more often, but I hate the adjustment mechanism versus Flicklocks.

[margotron]

Are they the older style blue or red ones like the picture below?

If so dip em in hot water for a while then hammer them off.

And, if you do replace them, can I have them please? Love those handles and swapped a pair between random alu rental poles for years till I lost one in a small slide.


Edit, I can’t post pictures on here anymore? I’m talking of the older handles like these- https://www.campsaver.com/black-diam...-shed2366.html

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Dang rob. They're not those handles -- sorry. They look awesome though. A+ ergos


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[Ted Striker]

I usually fill the basement utility sink or a bucket with hot but not boiling water, and let them sit in there for a few minutes. If I can't just twist it off at that point, I adjust my soft jaw vise so that it's a little wider than the pole, but narrower than the grip. If you just have a regular vise, you can use tape to make it "soft".

Then I start with the pole parallel to the bench, between the vise jaws, about half way between the grip and basket, and give a swift hard pull so that the bottom of the grip hits the side of the vise. Grip usually pops right off.

edit: so basically what xxx does, but less ghetto ;-)

[XXX-er]

yikes. arent you worried about splinters?

Poles are not alive, they don't have feelings or get splinters, I've used the vise as well but it's easiest with a pair of skis ime

[MarsB]

Poles are not alive, they don't have feelings or get splinters, I've used the vise as well but it's easiest with a pair of skis ime

Mighta missed his joke.

[XXX-er]

I wondered wtf he was on about, it was the very small screen in a bar

[3PinGrin]

yikes. arent you worried about splinters?

haha!

[3PinGrin]

Poles are not alive, they don't have feelings or get splinters, I've used the vise as well but it's easiest with a pair of skis ime

https://www.empr.com/news/sensum-cre...rticle/523856/

[Ted Striker]

Poles are not alive, they don't have feelings or get splinters

[margotron]

Thanks team
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