It took me forever to figure out what to do. I had to cheat and look at another video, but it was almost 4 minutes long, and the instructions weren't quite right. this is a brief, up-to-date explanation of what to do!
Mine has 6 poles and none are labeled. They’re telling me to insert one pole into another but both are the same diameter. How do you only have 3 poles?
It's been a few years, but I think you have to use all of the pieces, but you can just telescope them in to as small as you want up to a certain point.
We tried for an hour to get this to work but we could not find a finial that would fit into the wider rod! Thanks fir nothing. I will attempt to return it to Walmart fir a full refund!