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    Weezle Extreme - XL Like New condition

    Hi im interested in your XL weezle extreme. Will pay the 165 . I'm in BC Canada. Will have to be shipped USPS as UPS is terrible up here. Bill
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    Powell River Dive sites

    Al .thanks for passing the word on. It was my pleasure to take Rob and his crew out for 3 days a couple months back.I look forward to the next time. Dave if you have any trouble finding me through Al's link . Try finding my blog and the information by looking for Gradientdive on web. or you...
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    What rig would be better for me?

    I am also looking to purchase a sidemount rig. Nomad XT or Razor 2 batwing are the two choices I have come up with. I am cold salt water ,open water,wreck,drysuit and dry gloved,weight carrying, 1-2 alu deco bottles, steel lp 95's or hp 100's if i bust up doubles. I am also old and have...
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    Single tank Sidemount with HP100... weighting on the opposite side?

    As acold saltwater,primarily open water diver with back problems who is considering sidemounting as a way to ease out of twin backmounted 100 hp's and who had thought perhaps out of backmounting to ease up the pain, I also recently asked almost the same question in a separate thread. I have...
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    What are YOUR hose lengths and why?

    "Add to that a wall dive and one of the divers drops a cylinder during the swap! " Well said. Most accidents are made up of a series of compounded errors not a single one. I will stick to passing a hose long or short rather than pass the bottle. thanks for the hose length information. Bill
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    sidemount with single lp95 and Alu 40

    Beano I have been out fooling about in lake with a 40 and 30 in shallow water with 23lb lead approx , no bc just drysuit. It is a very free feeling. I have also done a bit of work on boat hull's inwater with just a single 40 on harness. Buoyancy characteristics of 30 is way better than alu 80...
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    sidemount with single lp95 and Alu 40

    CyprusSeb. Thanks and Yes to the open water. I am going to try in next couple days with a countering bit of lead. Karstdvr. Thanks for your insight .I like the comparison to Honda lopsided circle racing. I sort of do this already with one of my legs that is nerve damaged by back surgery so...
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    Ideas for bladder/wing for open water sidemount

    Jai Bar. Yes I hear you. It looks like the UTD Z plus has addressed this issue with baffles to keep the balloon effect down. Ity looks kind of like a re tooled single tank wing with air allowed to fill the central space where the cam band slots and STA usually are. while good at keeping a lower...
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    Ideas for bladder/wing for open water sidemount

    Thanks Ron i believe we will need a bit more of an answer though. Kevin. Hopefully someone will tell us how it is! I either dive from anchored boats in 40- 50 meters seawater that i must swim back to or swim to dive sites from shore so question is same Bill
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    Ideas for bladder/wing for open water sidemount

    Ron Thanks again for the information on the UTD. I will look at their higher lift model closer. I looked at the first one they had out i guess and it seemed to have too little lift for me and all kinds of potential other intricacies associated with their system that i did not want. The Razor...
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    sidemount with single lp95 and Alu 40

    I have very very little experience sidemounting but find i dive the combination i am enquiring about regularly backmounted with plate + wing. It would appear to be awkward to accomplish to me but i had to ask. One of the reasons I dive is that I have back troubles and live in chronic pain. I...
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    Ideas for bladder/wing for open water sidemount

    Thanks Ron. I did not realize that the UTD was a 50 lb one. My main problem is my feeling that they are overpriced for what they are. I do understand what it takes to develop one and the small market but still cannot help but feel that 400 bucks is too much. Which of the two do you use...
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    sidemount with single lp95 and Alu 40

    Does anyone dive this type configuration for NDL dives or light deco or is balancing/trim a large PITA.
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    Ideas for bladder/wing for open water sidemount

    I am looking for ideas for a rectangular, triangular or possibly donut wing with 45-50 lbs lift with more of it around waist than a horseshoe to attach to a single piece of webbing going from tailbone to shoulder straps harness suitable for sidemounting. Old jacket bcd's get bunched up under...
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    New BCD ?

    Hi. I love the bladder. I have a harness already that is similar that I could mount it on.( i have been trying to use a jacket bc not very comfortably) I am a bad backed older cold water ocean drysuit diver who usually has some surface swimming involved to get to and from sites, not a cave...
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    ScubaPro/Faber tank

    I think that shop told the fellow that had the tanks they were lp 68s or 73's. The one that was full since the hydro had 2250 in it. Fellow that sold them to me found he had a slightly less than usual (ALU 80) bottom time on the steel tank. there was about 500lbs left in that one . I sort of...
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    ScubaPro/Faber tank

    Jimmer. Yeah . I talked to the shop that did the vis and Hydro and they just put a Buna C or whatever NPR o ring not a Viton one. so that is a do. I have heard numerous things regarding 02 cleaning of steel tanks both pro and con more washing introducing more possibility of flash rust? . I...
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    ScubaPro/Faber tank

    Thanks Vance. your timing is fortuitous. After way to long with the 100's getting the 10%minus fills from the lds an employee there started to tell me that the 95's could only be filled to 2400 psi as after the first hydro they could no longer get the + rating overfill. I shall print them a...
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    ScubaPro/Faber tank

    Jimmer Great idea. I am also very interested in hearing if 2670 is what i should expect at lds Jimmer are you a charter operator? I run a charter boat in Powell River. Regards Bill
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    ScubaPro/Faber tank

    Vance Thanks for the information. I have been using a couple pst 100s and getting light fills forever even when shop turns on compressor and tops off tanks outside cascade to when their compressor shuts down at about 3500. I am lucky to get 3100 so call them the 10% minus tanks. I am happy...
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