plclark196
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Are pull dumps considered a potential failure point? If so, how do you exhaust - lower dump or power inflator dump- and where do you normally keep your left hand during a dive?
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Are pull dumps considered a potential failure point? If so, how do you exhaust - lower dump or power inflator dump- and where do you normally keep your left hand during a dive?
Are pull dumps considered a potential failure point? If so, how do you exhaust - lower dump or power inflator dump- and where do you normally keep your left hand during a dive?
Cable actuated pull dumps on at the "fill" fitting on your wing are considered a potential failure point.
These "rapid exhaust" valves can stick open, the cables can cut the corrugated hose, and repeated excessive yanking on the corrugated hose can pull the wing bladder through the outer shell.
The "pull dumps" or rapid exhaust valves are simply not necessary. Use a plain elbow.
Your wing can be vented either by pulling on the cord on the OPV, or by raising the corrugated hose and depressing the oral inflation button.
Tobin
...where do you normally keep your left hand during a dive?
I always use a pull dump in the inflator and have not seen any problems other than the steel cable corrodes and breaks eventually (why do the idiots use crimped steel cable, when crimped 300 lb monofilamnt fishing line would last forever and "never' fail or wear out?)
My other (more serious question) is why does a rear dump put less stress on the bladder that tugging on an inflator hose with a dump valve?
Also, I removed the rear dump string entirely, so I reduced a potential failure point too, right? string can't get caught if it is cut off..
Also, I removed the rear dump string entirely, so I reduced a potential failure point too, right? string can't get caught if it is cut off..