When we don't use our poles for a while and want to put them away, it's best to store them separately, with the openings facing downwards in an upright position, to allow the moisture inside to slowly drain out.
When caring for your trekking pole, you can use a very small amount of rust remover [Example: WD40] to treat the surface abrasive rust condition, but make sure to remove all the grease from the surface before using it, so that the adjustment locking function of the pole will not be affected. Alternatively you can use very fine abrasive paper to remove the surface abrasive rust and keep the locking function of the trekking pole unaffected. [Although this may wear away the indicator scale on the top of the poles] The locking function of poles with rotating locks may be affected by the fall of rust from the poles, which may block the locking grommets, so it is important to remove rust particles from the grommets during maintenance, and in particular to make sure that the inside of the grommets is very clean and free of rust particles and grease before putting them together for use.Occasionally, small problems can occur with trekking poles, but they can be easily eliminated by gently tapping the locked area or wetting the pole to reduce some of the friction, and then the pole can be swivelled out of the way without any problems.Rotary locking poles will often occur a problem, is the pole inside the ring will follow the pole rotation and can not be locked, this kind of failure will occur mostly due to the ring is too dirty, as long as the pole apart, and then the ring will be thoroughly cleaned and then back to the problem can be solved, if it can not be locked, the pole apart, will be the finer pole to turn some into the ring within the ring to the ring to support some, and then in the Then, you can directly insert it into the thicker pole and adjust it to the desired length and then lock it.The strongest state of the three adjustable poles is when the length of the three poles is equal, so do not extend one of the poles without the other, or exceed the warning scale of the poles, which will cause the poles to be easily bent and deformed and cannot be used! The best way to use the poles is to adjust the other two extendable poles to the same length, which can ensure the support strength of the poles and increase the service life of the poles.
