Installing a handle on my backplate
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HenrikBP
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A piece of 1" webbing looped through the horizontal slots at the top of the plate maybe?
Henrik
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NorthWoodsDiver
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do you have access to metal and welders and experience with metal fabrication? if not then a webbing handle is probably your only option. I would offer to fab one for you but I lost my job at the fab shop.
welding one on would be easiest of course but something could be made to bolt on also.
I prefer to just grab it by the shoulder straps with one hand and under the tanks with the other hand. I use a standard BC hanger for drying.
FredT and hammerhead both cut handles into the side of the plate which is another option but a plasma cutter or a drill press and cut off disc or a milling machine would be necessary for that.
if you had a water jet you could design a cool bolt on/weld on handle or cut handles into the plate. Man I wish I had a waterjet.
welding one on would be easiest of course but something could be made to bolt on also.
I prefer to just grab it by the shoulder straps with one hand and under the tanks with the other hand. I use a standard BC hanger for drying.
FredT and hammerhead both cut handles into the side of the plate which is another option but a plasma cutter or a drill press and cut off disc or a milling machine would be necessary for that.
if you had a water jet you could design a cool bolt on/weld on handle or cut handles into the plate. Man I wish I had a waterjet.
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