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Not the first time the problem has cropped up, but it was far to trivial to mention on Memorial Day.

Anyway, anybody know a source for a tangle-free flag pole that actually works? Something about five feet long for both sleeve and grommet style flags? None of the ones I've tried to date have worked.

The one I have now has (lame) bearings in the middle and sort of untangles sometimes, but not often enough.
 
I had the same problems, so made my own using small hose clamps on a 45 degree flag staff. The clamps can rotate freely, but gusty winds can still tangle the flag on itself.

Tom M.
 
We gave up on poles, now hang flags (US and POW/MIA) vertically from facia of the house. Yesterday attended a flag raising in front of our Chamber of Commerce after attending the monthly Military Affairs Council meeting. First time in many months the flag had been raised there. That pole has been barren too long. The POW/MIA flag will soon be added as well.
 
I use a plain varnished wooden pole (looks like a broom handle) with a sleeve flag at a 45 deg angle. I can't recall that it has ever tangled. Maybe it's the smooth printed flag.
 
NutmegCT said:
Wow - great Chamber of Commerce you have there. No flag was on the pole?

Here in New England that's ... frowned upon.
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T'was absent for a couple months. Still need to fix and seal the up-lighting for after dark. They're having to take it down at the end of every day for the time being.

This has been the most proactive Chamber we'd ever seen, been with them since '94.

The Council annually presents a check to a deserving enlisted individual, for continuing education. Done at an annual Military Appreciation Dinner. We contribute cases of printer paper to the on base (MacDill) elementary school, Wednesday we've begun planning for the second (of what we hope will be an annual) Fishing Tourney for wounded and/or disabled veterans, among other worthy projects.
 
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