Help with TeleScope Handsfree Umbrella!

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Leigh Lorayne

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• Apr 8, 2023

• #1

This recently purchased umbrella has been working great. Now 12 days from departure the umbrella cannot be completely opened because the locking pin doesn’t line up with the locking mechanism. Any thoughts? I don’t know what happened.

 

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dougfitz

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• Apr 8, 2023

• #2

If this is the same as my umbrella, the locking ferrule can be rotated gently by hand until the pin is aligned with the locking channel in the ferrule.

 

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Leigh Lorayne

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• Apr 8, 2023

• #3

Thanks! Your answer helped my husband and I to refocus and solve the problem. I think the issue happened because of ‘gentleness’! My hand needs to be on the ridges at the bottom of the slider and not close to the top where it is more flexible and moveable. Combined with position of my hand and being too aggressive in collapsing the umbrella I think I somehow rotated the locking mechanism 180 degrees out of alignment with the pin! Solved now and lesson learned. I so appreciate your reponse and this forum.

 

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SFHoneybee

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• Apr 8, 2023

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Leigh Lorayne said:

This recently purchased umbrella has been working great. Now 12 days from departure the umbrella cannot be completely opened because the locking pin doesn’t line up with the locking mechanism. Any thoughts? I don’t know what happened.

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Hi… I can’t offer any help… but can I ask where you purchased this one from..(?)- good luck

 

woody66

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• Apr 8, 2023

• #5

Same thing happened to mine before my Camino i couldn't figure it out!
My daughter came home and sorted it.
Once lined up with the locking channel she put a very very small dot of super glue on the outside edge and it's now three years on and never happened again!

 

trecile

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• Apr 8, 2023

• #6

SFHoneybee said:

Hi… I can’t offer any help… but can I ask where you purchased this one from..(?)- good luck

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