Bolt Snap for Primary Reg

[AlaskaDiver]

I started with a SS 1/2" but found that it made the reg too heavy. I was actually biting through on one side of the mouthpiece due to the weight. Use SS 3/8" and have no problems even with my dry gloves.

 

[MonkSeal]

From the DIR perspective is using a swivel bolt snap the only acceptable solution? I am currently using a hook and pile to "clip" my primary off.

Can it be operated with one hand?

 

[Meng_Tze]

Or if you were breathing from a stage or deco bottle, or using a rebreather with OC available as bailout/backup.

Yes. you are right, dont know why I forgot about these.

 

[Meng_Tze]

The only incidence of this I have heard described was GI on the first set (?) of GUE DVDs where he and JJ are having a fireside chat. He talkas about a cave where the silt was so fine that it built up in the boltsnaps and they jammed.

It:s obviously unlikely, but why not plan for such a contingency since it doesn't take much effort...

Yes, you would have to be in that cave for sooooooo long to have all that fine silt build up to the extend that it jams.... GI has the tendency to be dramatic as well.....:11:

 

[Soggy]

Or if you were breathing from a stage or deco bottle, or using a rebreather with OC available as bailout/backup.

Yup, beyond recreational diving, that long hose is clipped off more than it is breathed.

 

[Soggy]

From the DIR perspective is using a swivel bolt snap the only acceptable solution? I am currently using a hook and pile to "clip" my primary off. The reason I am using it is

What is a hook and pile?

 

[CompuDude]

What is a hook and pile?

I think we're all guessing he means velcro.

 

[Soggy]

I think we're all guessing he means velcro.

Ick!

If that's the case, that's a definite negatory on 'is it DIR?'

 

[Scared Silly]

Sorry for the confusion - I am used to using the descriptive name. Velcro is a trademarked brand name for hook and pile (saying velcro is akin to saying Xerox copy when meaning photocopy). There are many other examples of trademarked brand name being used incorrectly for the descriptive name.

Okay that said, has anyone come across some really small swivel bolt clips that are 1/4"? I have seen some that are brass? I have some 3/8 but even they seem big.

 

[SparticleBrane]

3/8" should do you fine.