A little play is okay. I have actually lightly sanded down the male part of the two-piece connection on my paddles (all are fiberglass these days), and on my four piece paddle as well (i.e. three points of contact). My concern is having a paddle get stuck and not be able to be pulled apart. I have seen it happen all too often with other people's paddles even on just a day trip. Never with mine. I don't think it really affects performance. And none of my paddles, even 12 year old ones, have had any breakage or problem in the connection area. I mentioned this in PaddleWise earlier as advice I had actually got from a Werner rep I knew back then when I reported that mine and other paddlers paddles were getting stuck. I forget who jumped in on PaddleWise to say that this was unsafe advice and not what the company recommends. Could be true currently. It may have been something they said early on but may have found that people went overboard in sanding and screwed up their paddles. If one does this in a moderate fashion, it should be okay. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Apr 15 2000 - 20:35:29 PDT
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