yeah it works. we steal poles from our local hill and do it so they dont know we took em. it will chip but just do it again once they get real bad. no biggie
ive done it it doesnt really chip as long as u sand a little before hand like he said^ but it will scrape off pretty easy if you scrape it with your edge by accident or scrape the pole on somthing else.
u have to sand them so that they are really rough and then u have to do like 3 coats or so or else the paint rubs off. or u could just sand them and leave them silver
also plan what you are going to paint i learned the hard way and just took a bunch of neon colors and sparyed them all over it looks so GAY. if your in the park and see me i give you permision to make fun of me