"Permanent" bootle foot? Exist ?

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the_dragon_no1

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Is there anything aftermarket that is a better solution that the rubber ones ? Or diy ? Even something of metal would be ok, i dive with twin 7l x 300bar. Euro cylinder. Just a taught :)


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Is there anything aftermarket that is a better solution that the rubber ones ? Or diy ? Even something of metal would be ok, i dive with twin 7l x 300bar. Euro cylinder. Just a taught :)

(Also posted in the diy section)


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What's wrong with the hard plastic tank boots? I prefer no boot at all for various reasons, but if you want one they seem to work just fine. Maybe you could cast and hammer on a lead boot if you were really head-heavy and still needed massive drysuit weight :wink:
 
Boots, not foots yeah :wink: Well everyone know that they collect lots of saltwater.. thats why :) and i just in general just dont like the rubber boots that fits these bottles.. seems there is only soft rubber boots for these made(?) yesterday i discovered multible tears in them, so had to cut lots of them to make them still work well.
Yeah i wish i didn't need boots at all, but there is a few reasons why i do "need" them :) lead boots would be ok in fact! Haha have to use 10kg weight belt anyways so :wink:


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---------- Post added February 15th, 2014 at 02:01 AM ----------

(And the ones i have is just around a year old)


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Not sure what's available in Norway, but in the US the boots tend to be made of a hard black plastic. I've only seen a tank boot split or tear when it's hammered onto a tank a size too large (like a 6.9" boot on a 7.25" tank) or onto an older, non-standard sized tank.

The boots we have here are very open at the bottom, so the salt water trapping is really more a function of having any kind of boot attached to the tank without a watertight seal. Maybe you could epoxy on a boot and keep water away that way...but knocking the boots off every several dives and giving the tanks a good rinse has to be easier.
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/swift/

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