On Jul 30, 9:38*pm, Jan Philips
wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:19:27 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03

wrote:
Have you considered uploading a picture and providing a link so we can
see what's going on?

Here are two photos showing the break in the rod:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/5248185...04/4844707963/

--
Replace you know what by j to email

I'd call a spiral staircase expert.

Something may be putting stress on the joints and causing the crack.
That's quite a gap.