Lesson learned...check your finger spool before deploying SMB

[Quero]

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A ScubaBoard Staff Message...

I've moved the bulk of the discussion regarding a modification of a finger spool to the DIY forum where there is already an ongoing thread on exactly the same topic: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/do...humb-reel-line-keeper-ez-smb-deploy-stow.html. Please continue to use the current thread here to discuss how (not) to deploy an SMB.

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[Splitlip]

He'd take it off (assuming he'd already exhausted the other spool(s) he carries on dives where spools may be necessary). It's just hitched on. Assuming there's a handy-dandy woody (little loop on top of the big loop), it's easy to do in a few seconds even in cold water gear.

I would argue for all intents and purposes it is permanantly attached if wearing gloves.
I've tried it with 1/2 mil gloves. I suspect with DS gloves the knife would come out, LOL.

 

[Blackwood]

Do you have the second loop? I can unrig my spool in 5mm wet gloves. I've never tried in dry.

If rigged like this, I agree it probably isn't coming off in thick gloves:

I unfortunately don't have a picture of one of mine handy, but what I mean is kinda like this:

That tiny loop is tied on top of the main loop (with which you hitch the line). I can grab that little loop to unhitch the big one.

 

[Splitlip]

Do you have the second loop? I can unrig my spool in 5mm wet gloves. I've never tried in dry.

Got point. I do not. But wouldn't the second loop constitute an entanglement hazard.

I guess I'll be adding one.

 

[Splitlip]

OK, just now seeing your pic.

Wouldn't the second loop be on the top of the loop run through the d-ring?

 

[Blackwood]

deathtrap for sure.

It ends up like this:

Pull the little loop in the direction of the arrow and your hitched loop opens wide. Then just pull the spool back through it and it's free. Mini loop only has to be big enough to easily grab.

 

[Splitlip]

LOL.

I missed this too in your first post.

"little loop on top of the big loop"

Thanks for the good information.

 

[Blackwood]

I missed this too in your first post.

"little loop on top of the big loop"

No worries. When I was writing that, I was thinking "how's this for confusing" anyway.

Picture = 1000 words, so an incomplete picture + MS paint is probably worth 500.

 

[OneRestlessNative]

No worries. When I was writing that, I was thinking "how's this for confusing" anyway.

Picture = 1000 words, so an incomplete picture + MS paint is probably worth 500.

Whats a video worth? Pretty sure this is what you are talking about.

YouTube - SMB Set up

Another unique and different way using a short length of bungie as well as a plastic bead.
YouTube - How to Use a Spool

Or you could get one of these and call it a day.
YouTube - What Works, Works! - Safety Reel Test

 

[Blackwood]

A video is worth its length times its framerate times the already established 1000 (words/frame).

Assuming 30fps, that first clip is worth 3.36 million words, which is interesting since - although there is sound - he didn't speak a single one.

What's the lesson here? It's perhaps unwise to ask an engineer a rhetorical question that can actually be computed