Back Plate: Aluminum or Stainless??

[Green_Manelishi]

Would diving a SS plate make him negativly bouyant?

More than likely, especially if diving a steel tank that is excessively negative even when empty.

With a 5mm steamer, 2mm shorty and hood, steel BP, HP80, I need NO weightbelt in NaCl. Even at 500psi or less I need air in my wing to float at the surface. So, with that rig I am overweighted. If I used my al BP I'd probably be just about perfect but would still have no ditchable weight (belt). Of course, I am doing this from shore, not stepping off a boat.

I am not recommending that others do the same. I do it only because I so loathe a weightbelt

 

[Wendy]

I'll be looking at an Explorer, Eclipse, Oxycheq or Dive Rite single wing.
John

Are you sure you mean an Explorer wing, as I believe this is for doubles. Did you mistake it for a pioner wing, which like the eclipse, is a single tank wing made by Halcyon?

 

[Furner]

I guess I am trying to use this thread to decide on my backplate choice too. I will be diving a 7mm full with hood, and single AL80 up here in the north, but I want to take my rig with a 3mm shorty down south in the winter (probably AL80 there as well). Would a SS work (with P weight up north and no weight down south)? Or should I do an AL with a P weight up north and weight belt down south?

 

[Furner]

rawr double post

 

[LUBOLD8431]

I used to use a steel BP for single tanks, and felt I had too much weight above me, like I was going to turtle or something. I switched to a FredT AL plate for single tanks, and a FredT two piece STA, and that solved that problem. Feels good now.

 

[giles45shop]

Are you sure you mean an Explorer wing, as I believe this is for doubles. Did you mistake it for a pioner wing, which like the eclipse, is a single tank wing made by Halcyon?

Oops! I did mean Pioneer or Eclipse, not Explorer.

Thanks,

John