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Thnx. IIRC, I pieced it together from parts of different rigs and some fresh bits from DGX (likely). It's an older 17 bottle which fits my travel case perfectly so it's a rec pony. I figure if I can't make it up from 130 on a quarter of a std 80, the poo is really, really deep and quite viscous that day.
So easy to make your own stage kit. Once upon a time "everyone" did. Decide whether you will use braided nylon or paracord. You can get almost everything you need from one of the box stores. However, don't "cheap" on the bolt snaps: Make sure they are marine stainless with a marine stainless spring, and open and close smoothly without binding and don't have sharp edges. I purchased my bolt snaps a very long time ago from Extreme Exposure, and I assume EE still offers them.
You can always make one. Some of my favorite rigging so far is actually my "cheapest" and "sloppiest," that somehow is great to use. The paracord one I threw together in about 15 minutes, and put on an extra "loaner" pony bottle, but it's actually somehow the most stable and easy to use, and adjust. I may actually replace the rigging I use on my sidemount bottles with something similar, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
nice the cost of a XS Scuba kit is about 90 canadian pesos $ here, very expensive in my opinion for what it s really worth. I will do go at the hardware store to get a 5,25 clamps that will cost about 4$, paracord i ve got some and i will get to marine grade bottle snap for about 15$ each. The webbing around the cord and the bungee or elastic strap could be fine anywhere for a cheap price. So i assume that for 50$ cad i will be all set.
I used clear tubing (rather than opaque fuel line) for the "handles". And my bolt snaps have closed ends that are larger (because I was wearing thick, cold-water wet gloves for Great Lakes diving at the time).
That seems a bit expensive, unless they're crazy good. Check Dive Gear Express. I spend about $5.5 USD on my giant 4 or 5 inch bolt-snaps, and less $ on the smaller ones. Though I usually buy bulk packs of smaller bolt-snaps, just because I use so many of them.
While seeming massive, a ruptured HP Hose is an inconvenience only. Look at the actual fitting that goes into the first stage. It is a tiny pinhole (which is the reason you can diagnose a partially closed tank valve by looking at your spg while taking a breath off your regulator). Search a bit about actual rates of flow and time to empty a cylinder for HP and LP hoses.
