Question Preferences for weight setup

[Biz2000]

What tank(s) are you typically using?

Al80’s at the moment

 

[inquis]

I’ve been wearing it under my harness and behind my crotch strap

I do this, as it will be caught if the buckle accidentally slips. This is the most likely failure, and removal would cause a buoyant/uncontrolled ascent. I'm OK taking a few extra seconds to drop on the surface if my wing has failed, as I can float a single-tank rig with a larger than normal breath.

 

[jadairiii]

Al80’s at the moment

In fresh water, my weighting was about the same, dry or wet with double alum 80's, I use an 8lb v weight with a 6 lb ss back plate (and 1, 2lb weight in each thigh pocket as "cheater" weights, but dont tell my cave instructors....)

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Mako rubber free diving belt with individual pockets, stainless steel plate, and pockets on the cam bands.
the two front pockets on the belt are mounted upside down, so I could pop one and let the lead drop.
Belt is always under the crotch strap. Accidentally losing the belt is much more of a concern than the 2 extra seconds it takes to undo the waist belt/let crotch strap drop on the surface to let the weight belt drop.
If you are properly weighted there should NEVER be an need to drop the entire belt at depth.
For an al80 diving dry I needed 24 lbs. Which is why I never owned al cylinders except as stage bottles. Steel only.
That 24 lbs was distributed as follows. 6lb ss plate, 3 lbs in each cam band pouch, remaining lead split between 4 pockets on the belt. 4s in the back two, 2s in the front two that were ditchable.

 

[Biz2000]

All very helpful insight, I've got some good ideas going into my weight system setup now thanks to everybody, thank you!

 

[Biz2000]

Does anyone have experience with backplate ballast pockets? I found some on DGX that might work but they have a longer tail that I could see swiveling and even possibly dumping the weight out. I would like a non-ditchable solution for rig mounted weight so if there is a more permanent solution used to attach say 10lbs to my plate that would be of interest to me...

Highland Tail Trim Weight Pouch

These were the weight pockets in question

 

[Umuntu]

I make plates from lead, to put next to the plates not from lead
and then I can cut the weightbelt lead and other the lead down

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@happy-diver do you mould your weight plates or do you cut and shape them from a sheet of lead ?

 

[rongoodman]

Those pouches are designed to hang below a set of doubles, which are often head heavy. Switching to steel tanks should help.

 

[happy-diver]

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[happy-diver]

See this dude here, he devised a system utilising block weights bolted to his plate

And when you hammer in a flat nut and use countesunk screws, there is no profile

Not really a devisation I mean what else are you filling your empty plate holes with