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A collet assembly for telescoping pole structures and the like including inner and outer collet members. The inner collet member is mounted upon a first pole and includes a plurality of integral flexible fingers. The inner collet member is staked to the pole by deforming small sections thereof into spaces between the flexible fingers. The outer collet member has a tapped interior threadedly engaging a tapped exterior portion of the inner collet member, which threaded portion is spaced inward from the free ends of the flexible fingers. An interior peripheral portion of the outer collet member is tapered to urge the fingers radially inwardly when the outer collet member is threaded onto the inner collet member. A collet ring is positioned within an annular recess collectively formed by recesses provided along the interior periphery of each of the fingers and is pressed against a second tube telescoped into the collet assembly when the outer collet member is tightened onto the inner collet member. The tube engaged by the collet ring has an OD which is less than the ID of the tube staked to the inner collet ring and adjustably telescopes into and out of the staked tube. An appropriate tool piece is mounted to the free end of the smaller diameter tube such as, for example, a paint brush, a pool skimmer or any other suitable tool member.

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