Original Octoplus brackets, accessories, etc.

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If anyone has any old Octoplus brackets, arms, etc for the original "threepenny bit" legs, hanging round their shed/garage and wants to offload them for cash, get in touch.

I am specifically looking for a keepnet bracket/arm and a couple of short (13cm) umbrella arms (black cube on one end and red on the other)

Thanks for looking.
 
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Peter Jacobs said:
I probably have some of the older Octoplus brackets hanging around in my garage Jack, I'll have to have a sort out next weekend.
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Thanks Peter, I just got a lovely Little Gem seatbox, with a footplate, for a song today and it's got round legs so my current accessories will fit. I only intend to use it for pole fishing and I am starting to fish vets matches at my club so I will need a keepnet arm for the hard-standing pegs and platforms and a couple of short brolly arms.
 
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I wished I had known prior to moving house earlier in the year, I had to have a ruthless clear out and had a big Tupperware box full of arms and adaptors from when I had my Matchbox and I ended up chucking 'em... you would have been welcome to them otherwise :(

If it's any help you can easily hacksaw the brolly arm down to the length you require and re-drill the holes, I remember doing it for myself.
 
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jacksharp said:
Thanks Peter, I just got a lovely Little Gem seatbox, with a footplate, for a song today and it's got round legs so my current accessories will fit. I only intend to use it for pole fishing and I am starting to fish vets matches at my club so I will need a keepnet arm for the hard-standing pegs and platforms and a couple of short brolly arms.
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You might need 3 keepnet arms with any luck!!!!
 
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binka said:
I wished I had known prior to moving house earlier in the year, I had to have a ruthless clear out and had a big Tupperware box full of arms and adaptors from when I had my Matchbox and I ended up chucking 'em... you would have been welcome to them otherwise :(

If it's any help you can easily hacksaw the brolly arm down to the length you require and re-drill the holes, I remember doing it for myself.
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Dunno if it's as easy as that binka as there is a thread embossed in to bracket. I could cut both ends off and shorten them and pop-rivet a smaller square section of box aluminium inside.
 
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I'm trying to visualise the black bracket that sleeves over the square metal tube but can't... if I could see one I would most likely remember exactly how I did it?
 
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binka said:
I'm trying to visualise the black bracket that sleeves over the square metal tube but can't... if I could see one I would most likely remember exactly how I did it?
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Probably too much trouble to cut-and-shut the longer ones I've got, currently watching a couple of short ones on eBay.
 
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Ebay sounds like the easier option :)

IIRC and these are the ones that you mean the screw thread is housed inside the black moulded sleeve and will work with just a small hole aligned in the square metal bar (along with the larger holes for the brolly pole) and it should tighten on to the brolly pole...

 
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binka said:
Ebay sounds like the easier option :)

IIRC and these are the ones that you mean the screw thread is housed inside the black moulded sleeve and will work with just a small hole aligned in the square metal bar (along with the larger holes for the brolly pole) and it should tighten on to the brolly pole...

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Good call binka! Probably best to drill out the black end, as the hole is smaller. I will need to buy a large drill, but it looks do-able!

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Update: Just got a keepnet arm and one brolly arm from eBay, so still looking for another 13cm brolly arm. :)
 
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dead peg said:
If your in a hurry to get one matchman supplies do them for £8 with free postage .They fit the old arms .May be worth considering ,by the time you bid on e-bay and then pay postage

Octoplus Umbrella Arm - Matchman Supplies
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Cheers dead peg, but the one in the pic is for a square leg. I am going to do what binka suggested and cut and re-drill one of the 26cm ones that I already have now that I know it can be done, then that will be me sorted.
 
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All sorted, thanks to binka, cut a 26cm one down and it only cost me 4 quid for a 16mm drill from Toolstation. :thumbs:

Peter Crabtree, you can stick your brolly arm where the sun don't shine (sideways!) :D
 
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