Don't know if anyone else is doing this but it works pretty good. I bought a set of vacuum cleaner replacement belts at lowes, about 2.50, and they worked great for the hose clamp on my deco bottle. Perfect size, cheap and looks a lot neater than the inner tube I had on it. Just thought I would pass it along.
Deco bottle idea
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We paid a $2.50 for a bag of these crab trap bands at Seattle Marine... and they are just the right size for holding the hose on the 40cf deco bottle.
Got a part number for those little beauties, Pug? Looks like a likely addition to my collection.
Rick
www.seamar.com
Continental Western Rubber Band #107 1 Lb Bag
Price: $2.17 / BAG
Product Code: CWC-RB107-1
{sorry Steve... I didn't intend to highjack your thread.}
Wreck/Tec
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I prefer surgical tubing with an ear of about three inches sticking up so I can grab it and return my hose to it's origional place when I plan to switch mixes or exit the water. Bands are hard to grab a hold of when they hug the outside of the tank. My gloved fingers always struggled to get under the bands.
Wreck/Tec
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JamesK
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If you run the bands over the stage kit, and the fuel hose, you will have no problems getting your fingers underneath them. Of course, I have never tried this with thick gloves though.
That is the way we do it and have no trouble getting *under* the band using thick drygloves by grasping it where it goes over the tubing.
large_diver
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So......regardless of what you use to secure the hose....running the surgical tubing/bungee/crab trap bands OVER the stage kit tubing makes more sense...? I was just setting one of these up last week and ran them under the stage kit....
WYDT
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Yep, I think so... I thought I had the original idea when I started doing it... guess not.
It's much easier to get ahold of that way and can be done even one handed with practice.
Scubaroo
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Looks like I'm not the only one who will be rerigging a bottle as a result of this thread. Thanks!
I had a look in the DIRF book, and there must be half a dozen permutations of stage bottle rigging in it. I like UP's idea of two crab bands instead of the honking great piece of inner tube that came with the FifthD kit.
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