Hi i want to make light strong tent pole in 2 or 3 parts socketed together. The pole needs to be 1200mm long. I know a cf walking pole I have about 13mm od about 1mm wall 3 parts with aluminium spigots 130 gram weight, is strong enough and a 9mm easton 3 part Al alloy about .5mm wall, 74 gram weight, is a bit too springy. So i thought your 12.7 wrapped id cf tube would be about right. Is your woven tube anystronger for the weight than your wrapped? I want the spigot to be a close sliding fit and not to be the point of failure. Would you think aluminium or do you make a standard wrapped tube or wrapped or pultruded rod that would work?

The woven tube is similar strength in comparison to the roll wrapped tubes.  The 12.7mm ID tube weighs 90g a meter so a smaller diameter tube would be fractionally lighter. There are representative figures for mechanical data for the roll wrapped tubes which you may wish to use to compare to aluminium and use to select the strength you need and hence suitable diameter.

Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

Hi warren do you have a product that would work as a spigot say a 12mm od rod or tube? I suspect a pultruded rod might fail because the spigot will be in bending. Perhaps a 10-12 wrapped tube filled with a pultruded rod so it is as strong as the 12.7-15.5 main tube? Alternatively a lot of your products seem to next size down is the same od as the next up id. Is it easy to sand down cf tube to a sliding fit?