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Real x-pole?
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As per our last email it was difficult to see due to the glare on the bearing area.
Basically providing there is an actual ball bearing in the centre of the upper dome it is fine. If there is just a big hole in the middle and you can see to the bottom of the dome from the top the bearing unit is missing.
New and Old Styles:
The Old Style (XP) is Top Loading – you have to adjust it from the top – and has screw together joints.
The New Style (XX) is Bottom Loading – no ladder needed to install – and uses new X-Joints and has a smaller base.
Hope the above helps
X-Pole Tech Team
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Thanks to you all for your super help and good advice!
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Another thing I now see is that my top dome is HOLLOW, not solid across the top. Maybe that is why it was always slipping due to lack of contact area with the ceiling.
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Lyme Lyte – please can you explain what you mean by hollow across the top?
The upper dome has a lip to which the silicone edge, which contacts with the ceiling, is attached. It is only that silicone edge that is in contact with the ceiling. Correclty installed that is more than enough to hold the dome in position. The most important point is to make sure the dome is flat with the ceiling.
It is not the dome wihich effects stabiliy. The floor and its surface also play a part. A hard floor is fine but on a sprung wooden floor when you use the pole you increase the pressure on the base by the dancers weight, the floor compresses and this de-pressurises the pole. So it can be fine when you install it but when you dance the floor flexes and allows the dome to move. This can also happen on thick carpet. The instructions suggest with a sprung floor you stand on the base to add weight as you wind the adjuster up.
Hope this helps.
X-Pole Tech team
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Yes, it is just as u suggested. Hollow. Even when installed properly, it would slip…..once again probably being a fake. We even put too much pressure on it and it would still slip on me, and i am little. I have never had that with a real x pole.
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