Help identifying dry glove system

[Kid_Swell]

Hi Divers!
One year reading/admiring, and now my first post (hope I'm doing this right).

I got incredibly lucky and bagged a bargain on an older drysuit with 5 dives on it.
It is a gen one Fourth Element Argonaut Kevlar breathable dry suit.

Could you help me identify the dry glove system installed?

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• Kid_Swell
• Aug 16, 2019

From previous posts on this forum I have found 9 different variants! :O

Excited for my drysuit primer this weekend

Happy friday!

 

[broncobowsher]

Don't have permission to view. Can't help if we can't see.

 

[azstinger11]

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Same

 

[Kid_Swell]

Don't have permission to view. Can't help if we can't see.

Same

Apologies fellas, I think I have managed to change the privacy. Cheers

 

[azstinger11]

Apologies fellas, I think I have managed to change the privacy. Cheers

No luck for me, maybe try hosting the image on Imgur and linking it?

 

[Kid_Swell]

No luck for me, maybe try hosting the image on Imgur and linking it?

One last try? Better now?

 

[Zef]

Your picture shows the Si-Tech QCS Oval wrist cuff system. In itself it is not a dryglove system, it is system designed for user replaceable wrist seals and also as a foundation/attachment point for dryglove systems. The following dryglove systems are designed to work with the QCS oval wrist cuff system as a direct fit:

Si-Tech Antares - this system retains the cuffs' oval shape but is not recommended because it has a tendency to leak and is fragile.

Si-Tech Virgo - a good system based on Si-Tech's Glove Lock dryglove system but is a bit bulky. Once installed it renders the cuff round instead of oval.

Waterproof Ultima DGS - this is a popular dryglove system for the wrist cuff system you have. It works well. It too renders the cuff round once installed.

4th Element Ellipse - this is a new product that just hit the market. Not much info out there about it or independent reviews. It works similar to the Waterproof Ultima DGS but it keeps the cuff system oval. It also looks to have a lower/less bulky profile compared to all the other systems mentioned.

There are other dryglove systems on the market but none are a direct fit like the ones above.

-Z

 

[Kid_Swell]

Your picture shows the Si-Tech QCS Oval wrist cuff system. In itself it is not a dryglove system, it is system designed for user replaceable wrist seals and also as a foundation/attachment point for dryglove systems. The following dryglove systems are designed to work with the QCS oval wrist cuff system as a direct fit:

Si-Tech Antares - this system retains the cuffs' oval shape but is not recommended because it has a tendency to leak and is fragile.

Si-Tech Virgo - a good system based on Si-Tech's Glove Lock dryglove system but is a bit bulky. Once installed it renders the cuff round instead of oval.

Waterproof Ultima DGS - this is a popular dryglove system for the wrist cuff system you have. It works well. It too renders the cuff round once installed.

4th Element Ellipse - this is a new product that just hit the market. Not much info out there about it or independent reviews. It works similar to the Waterproof Ultima DGS but it keeps the cuff system oval. It also looks to have a lower/less bulky profile compared to all the other systems mentioned.

There are other dryglove systems on the market but none are a direct fit like the ones above.

-Z

Thanks a lot for the detailed response Zef!

Deff worked out that it’s part, and not a complete system.
Saw a video of the Ellipse system, however, I thought it replaced this oval system I have?

Thanks again!

 

[Zef]

Thanks a lot for the detailed response Zef!

Deff worked out that it’s part, and not a complete system.
Saw a video of the Ellipse system, however, I thought it replaced this oval system I have?

Thanks again!

The hard oval inner ring of the system you have is used to retain the silicone wrist seal, it is removed and replaced by a hard oval inner ring that comes with the Ellipse dryglove system....this oval ring is designed to be used to retain the wrist seal as well as serve as a docking platform for the ring the dryglove is mounted on. This is the same way the Waterproof Ultima DGS works except the Ultima is round and the Eliipse is oval.

-Z