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I run DGX 70° elbows on my short hoses. I quite like them. The 110° is identical from what I see.

I don't know, but I am interested in the answer. I'd toss them myself, simply because even if I cleaned them I'd doubt them, and they're too cheap to be worth the doubt. But IDK.

Perhaps a more useful rule of thumb than "I have tank addiction, join us" would be to have the tanks you need to dive as you want. That could be a large number or it could be a small one. Many recreational divers are served by a simple pair of al80's. In Great Lakes recreational wreck diving, it...

Welcome back. And congratulations on having an excuse to pick up a bunch of cool new gear. I am also a Deep6 fan for regs and fins, but that is not to say that they are the automatic go-to choice. Except for the fins. If you need a neutral buoyancy fin Deep6 fins are truly excellent. Anyways...

Rest in peace.

Sympathies. At least it wasn't one of the 85's.

I know what you mean, but I can only follow the evidence as it was told to us. Also I was ice diving this past weekend and EVERYTHING was freezing other than first stages. Freezing cold plus water equals ice, good luck getting that inflator to work again now, etc. So this particular form of...

Think it through. Pressurized air bomb goes off, (probably Delrin) nuts instantly strip as tanks and bands and threaded steel rod all head directly backwards from the blast, and the poor wing throughbolt points shred from the threaded rod passing out of them. While the nut material is...

Vehicle mods for diving are fun. My Subaru has a tank holder, gear shelf, and a little seat in the rear so I can sit down to gear up. I see lots of other ideas here. The more you know of, the better you can figure out what will suit you best. Having a tough little folding table is a good idea...

I think suggesting the course is practically obligatory. But I agree that a conscientious diver is quite capable of learning drysuit diving without a class. All the training resources are available if you search for them, manuals may require buying. I recently got a Seaskin drysuit and I am also...

I use a DSS plate/wing combo, which relies on the wing for stability. For what you want to do I believe that the Freedom Contour plate made by Eric Sedletzky would be the best solution. That plate is wearable scuba artwork and can be used with or without a wing. I don't know anything about other...

Well, now I understand what you want to do. I think it's a bit crazy, but you do you. Piranha sells what you posted a picture of for $13. Plastic Traditional Style Backplate , Piranha Dive Shop | Also a beefed-up version. You could also look at the various single tank plates available, such as...

That is an impressively unlikely pair of failures. And yet it happened. I wouldn't be comfortable diving two hair-trigger quick-connects like that. Assuming I knew they were that sensitive, of course. I take it you have replaced at least one of them with something less twitchy? I wonder how...

I still don't get it. It sounds like you have a bcd that is only designed to support rebreathers and you want to convert it into an open circuit bcd? Seems like a lot of work to build a clunky bcd if that's the case. But just going literally, most bp/w rigs with an STA could be dived without the...

Scubaboard members certainly cheerlead a bit with some of the smaller manufacturers that we like. Deep6 is probably the most prominent. However, that is not without reason. Deep6's rebranded stuff is nothing special per say, but generally is going to be offered for a good price and that pretty...

Thank you all. I decided to go with the Hollis F1 LT's. I was concerned about the DR XT's stiffness and awkwardness of their length inside wrecks, and I was able to get hands on the Apeks RK3 HD's and they are floppier than I'd like. I don't know if the Hollis F1 LT's will actually be any...

Being head heavy is no fun at all. The F1 LT's have that desirable negative buoyancy, but could you describe what you give up to wear the F1 LT's compared to the Eddys? (Eddys being a frame of reference I am very familiar with.) Is there anything besides weight that you gain? Precision, power, etc.

In short: I need new fins for sidemount drysuit diving, I'd like about -1lbs negative at most, what is the best fin for a steady diet of modified frog kicks and helicopter turns in wrecks? My lead choices right now are the Hollis F1 LT, the Apeks RK3 HD, and the DR XT. Long Version: I recently...

40'? Just spend $20 on the aforementioned plastic clicker reel and be done with it.

Wow.