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Your stainless steel won't go bad in saltwater?You used cheap stuff. Home Depot?
Brass seems like a good solution.
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Your stainless steel won't go bad in saltwater?You used cheap stuff. Home Depot?
The CustomDivers canister comes with a webbing harness you could slide on BC 2" webbing. If you dive with a long hose it can double as a can light to tuck your hose. In addition it has a key ring hole on the lid so you can attach a bolt snap or tie some line to it. I attached a snap with a stainless steel key ring and have it clipped to my 8' SMB, all bundled in my lift bag sleeve under my wing as I posted up thread..
How are you going to carry that? I wish it had a key-ring hole on the side like the HDVSEATEK.
How much is that going to cost?
I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for finally letting me know, as I've mentioned my problems with stainless steel bolt snaps & rings a few times here, as well as changing to brass on both, but this is the first I've heard of this. I guess my problems were with hardware store shopping, but we don't have marine stores here on the high desert - so google time.Brass will chew you up after a while. I’ve cut myself pretty good on more than one brass bolt snap. Stainless is definitely the way to go, just make sure you get them from a reputable place, and designed for maritime use.
Yeah, we saw that here earlier. I think they'll continue to offer the PLB1 as an alternate choice, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket traveling & hiking, but it'll really depend on sales.FWIW, and it could be meaningless, but I just had my first battery service on my ResQLink and the tech told me ACR bought Ocean Signal, the makers of the PLB1. I could foresee the PLB1 being phased out, or not.
the "rescueMe" is the smallest PLBDoes anyone know which is the smallest PLB with a Class 1 battery?
the "rescueMe" is the smallest PLB
http://oceansignal.com/products/plb1/#specifications
If you want a "class 1" battery you need an EPIRB not a PLB. The vastly larger battery of class 1 EPIRBs is rated for much colder temps (-40C) and also lasts longer than the 24hrs the PLBs are rated for (although some PLBs last 30-48 hrs, EPIRBs are more like 5+ days). An EPIRB is way too large to take diving though. A depth canister for an EPIRB would be close to the size of an Al50 scuba tank lol.
Thanks for the correction; I fixed the original. If anyone wants one, here's a source.@tursiops that’s not a snap shackle. That’s just a shackle bolt snap.