Lots of questions.....let me digest and I'll get back to you, also, that'll give Andy just enough time to answer everything anyways. Lol.
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here are pictures inflated and uninflated. it puffs up more like a samosa when fully inflated than a beach ball.
What I got from your post is that there is no good way to dive a SM rig setup for steel 100s and then use AL80s occasionally, for fun, non-technical dives. The only reasonable way to SM AL80s would be to have a different rig or make significant changes to the rig's setup. Thank you for your opinion.
here are pictures inflated and uninflated. it puffs up more like a samosa when fully inflated than a beach ball.
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Inflated in ambient air and being inflated underwater are two different animals. While it may look just a tad thicker when you are in your livingroom, when you are under water that air will always try to get to the highest point and it will beachball a large air pouch that has no baffles.
I don't think so. I dive with a guy that has one and his even balls a bit. Not that you keep the thing pumped to max anyway. I like you, see the APEKS and the Stealth to pretty much be the same rig. Here he is in his Stealth with aluminums at the end of a dive.
Inflated in ambient air and being inflated underwater are two different animals. While it may look just a tad thicker when you are in your livingroom, when you are under water that air will always try to get to the highest point and it will beachball a large air pouch that has no baffles.