wb416
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I didn't notice that method, but I might give it a try sometime.
tx, wb
Dry Gloves (Calling UP)
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I didn't notice that method, but I might give it a try sometime.
tx, wb
Ran into a couple of guys who claimed to have SI-tech drygloves that didn't require permanent installation. That's what I was asking about here.
A quick check of the DUI site and a bit of googling failed to turn up anything. Were those guys pulling my leg?
buff
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Here a link to the SI tech site:
http://www.sitech.se/
There are two options as far as I can understand.
My great fear is that if you rip a glove or seal and are at a great depth or in cold water then your whole suit floods if you don't have a back-up seal. I would think that this would be a great "failure point" for D.I.R. divers. But D.I.R. does the unecessary with the use of a condom catheter so it wouldn't suprise me that they would say "o.k." to the glove system.
I like a lot of those D.I.R. ideas just the catheter one and the glove thing are too much of a risk for me.
http://www.sitech.se/
There are two options as far as I can understand.
My great fear is that if you rip a glove or seal and are at a great depth or in cold water then your whole suit floods if you don't have a back-up seal. I would think that this would be a great "failure point" for D.I.R. divers. But D.I.R. does the unecessary with the use of a condom catheter so it wouldn't suprise me that they would say "o.k." to the glove system.
I like a lot of those D.I.R. ideas just the catheter one and the glove thing are too much of a risk for me.
buff
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Here is a link to Nordic Blue -they have a ring system. I have ordered gloves from them.
http://www.nordic-blue.com/en/
www.simplyscuba.com has Oceanics ring system and it's cheaper than nordic-blue.
http://www.nordic-blue.com/en/
www.simplyscuba.com has Oceanics ring system and it's cheaper than nordic-blue.
buff
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here is a link to Bare. They have a cool looking system:
http://www.bare-wetsuits.com/bareshop/divedept.asp?dept_id=220
http://www.bare-wetsuits.com/bareshop/divedept.asp?dept_id=220
Check valve in the p-valve protects the suit as does the pee through bolt.
Seal is still in place and dryglove can be removed and replaced underwater without flooding suit... only forearm would get wet until the tube was pulled from under the seal.
buff
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"Check valve in the p-valve protects the suit as does the pee through bolt."
-Your more worried about the suit than the diver?? That doesn't sound D.I.R. to me. Those Depends work like a miracle. Simple solution for a simple problem. I don't worry about getting some of MY pee in MY suit-it's not as caustic as Uncle Pug's I guess.
"Seal is still in place and dryglove can be removed and replaced underwater without flooding suit... only forearm would get wet until the tube was pulled from under the seal."
-I am still confused about the dry glove ringy thingy. To prevent squeeze in your hands you have to have a patent opening to your suit to allow inflation of the gloves. If that is so then if you remove the glove you'll flood the suit-right?. And if you don't have a patent connection to the suit you get the hand squeeze and no warming of the glove. If the seal remains patent then you can't get air moving into the glove and if it isn't patent then you don't air circulation but you don't risk flooding the suit. I am confused how you can have both. They seem mutally exclusive. I know you've explained your system before, U.P. but I guess I still don't get it.
-Mike
-Your more worried about the suit than the diver?? That doesn't sound D.I.R. to me. Those Depends work like a miracle. Simple solution for a simple problem. I don't worry about getting some of MY pee in MY suit-it's not as caustic as Uncle Pug's I guess.
"Seal is still in place and dryglove can be removed and replaced underwater without flooding suit... only forearm would get wet until the tube was pulled from under the seal."
-I am still confused about the dry glove ringy thingy. To prevent squeeze in your hands you have to have a patent opening to your suit to allow inflation of the gloves. If that is so then if you remove the glove you'll flood the suit-right?. And if you don't have a patent connection to the suit you get the hand squeeze and no warming of the glove. If the seal remains patent then you can't get air moving into the glove and if it isn't patent then you don't air circulation but you don't risk flooding the suit. I am confused how you can have both. They seem mutally exclusive. I know you've explained your system before, U.P. but I guess I still don't get it.
-Mike
Mike we insert a short length of surgical tubing (coffee stir straws work as well) under the wrist seal... in the event of a leaking glove the glove can be removed and the tube pulled... then the glove is replaced and used as a wetglove while the wrist seal keeps water from entering the suit.
As for your statement/question quoted above.... no... of course not. If you want to use depends that is fine.... but your concern over the p-valve is uninformed.
Saw that, but couldn't make heads or tails of it. Still can't. Is one of the systems definitely easily uninstallable?
Edited to add: Finally found a somewhat comprehensible page, and it appears that an "undestroyed latex cuff" can be inserted into the ring. But then it starts talking about the "replacement cuff".
Anyone have experience with this system?
Diving Concepts rings can be easily uninstalled (much easier that installing!) and leave the seals in good shape.
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