Tips for freeing sized boathook

[davidpbo]

It's the sort that uses 1/2 twist to lock.
It has suddenly siezEd. Not used in salt water. I am trying wd40. It doesn't look bentry.

 

[davidpbo]

Sorry about spelling posting on phone. Can't esit. It disappears.

 

[Giblets]

Could possibly try applying a bit of gentle heat with a hair dryer/heat gun on the twisty bit followed by a few gentle taps with a hammer. Certainly worked on a seized extending pole that I have.

 

[sailorman]

Boiling water ?????

 

[PlankWalker]

If its the same type as mine, I freed it by taking the rubber handle off and pouring boiling water into the handle end.
This enabled me to push the locking mechanism out of the handle end to be cleaned and lubricated.

Plank

 

[davidpbo]

It isn't completely jammed, just very stiff. Too stiff for my wife to use or me to use easily. Happened very suddenly, no gradual increase.

 

[ghostlymoron]

Mine has also become stiff. The only way I can extend it is by jamming the hook end between my boots which gives me two hands to pull it up. I've eased it before using hot water but it's due for another treatment. It's the salt that does it. Some silicone grease might help.

 

[[70521]]

It isn't completely jammed, just very stiff. Too stiff for my wife to use or me to use easily. Happened very suddenly, no gradual increase.

Strip it down and investigate.

 

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

Gentle taps, twisting to and fro, pulling.
For prevention I drilled a 6mm hole in the end of the rubber handle and a lot of white dust fell out. The hole now serves as a drain for any water that gets trapped inside. Pumping the two parts up and down before putting the boathook away blows droplets of water out of the hole in the handle (if this is held at the bottom). So far, this has been a successful solution.

 

[thinwater]

It's the sort that uses 1/2 twist to lock.
It has suddenly siezEd. Not used in salt water. I am trying wd40. It doesn't look bentry.

What brand?

Some are susceptible to swelling just from rainwater. WD40 makes it worse. First, get it VERY dry, inside and out and wait.

Personally, I hate telescoping poles and use a plain one.

 

[bikedaft]

i was given one like that

i've been leaving it in the rain/dunking it in salt water as i want it to lock extended - i use the boat hook to push off from pontoon etc/fend off dinghy etc

can we swap??

 

[TheOrs]

Mine has also become stiff.

The only way I can extend it

x2

jamming the hook end between my boots

x3

two hands to pull it up.

x4

I've eased it before

x5

it's due for another treatment.

x6

It's the salt that does it.

x7

Some silicone grease might help.

x8



Sorry...

 

[Giblets]

You forgot "i was given one like that"

 

[TheOrs]

Gentle taps, twisting to and fro, pulling.

 

[TheOrs]

Too stiff for my wife to use...

Pumping the two parts up and down...

get it VERY dry, inside and out...

can we swap?

Soz...

Really...

 

[Hydrozoan]

... Personally, I hate telescoping poles and use a plain one.

I, too, prefer the plain wooden one - so as the seized telescoping aluminium one still fits into the locker, I've just left it seized!

 

[pcatterall]

I have suffered this problem! Always jams when really needed. I now use a two piece job where the bits click into each other aka tent pole. Can use as a shorty but when unsure I prepare it in the longer mode. Works well!

 

[johnalison]

I think that my telescopic pole was bought at the same time as the boat, in 2000, and it's still going strong. We also have a proper one stowed on the coachroof. It is handy to have a spare at the helm when going into a lock, though I seldom have to use it. I think the innards are nylon or summat, so washing out should be sufficient, but I might try some PTFE if mine got sticky.

 

[alan_d]

I had a telescopic boathook that failed the other way, i.e. it came apart, I think because the adjusting gubbins was held in place by a plastic external sleeve which came unglued from the alloy tube. I reassembled it as best I could but one tube would no longer grab the other, so I ended up fully extending it and putting a couple of blind rivets in. I now have a fixed-length boathook, distinguished from its still-telescoping twin by a band of red tape (so I don't try telescoping it by mistake).

 

[davidpbo]

What brand?

Some are susceptible to swelling just from rainwater. WD40 makes it worse. First, get it VERY dry, inside and out and wait.

Personally, I hate telescoping poles and use a plain one.

Don't think it has a brand on it.