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See... you're diving in cold waters down there. WAY down there, as far as I'm concerned.
Seriously - what are you looking for? I dive with either thick wet gloves or Diving Concepts DryGloves... I just ordered another batch of the 1 1/8" stainless... and you can't beat the prices. Just how big do you want to get?
Reef Scuba (www.reefscuba.com) has an XXL bolt snap in Stainless, but they want $10 apiece for them.
I like the look of the XL ones from reefscuba. I just ordered a batch of the brass ones. The SS was just a little too salty for me.
42 degrees is cold enough for me, we get that year round deep at the quarry I dive. I am diving with diving concepts dry gloves, but sometimes I have a couple of layers of gloves underneath, depends on how long we are going to be down.
Doug has a nice selection of stainless bolt snaps (with stainless springs inside too) with great prices. The double enders are a little long (by 1/2") - but they still work well. I use the 1-1/8" snaps on my stage/deco bottles and the 3/4" snaps on my backup lights, gauges and long hose second stage.
be careful of the ones in Depot and Lowes, i bought a bunch of these brass ones from them trying to save money and the springs are not a good material in the brass snaps. I dive in fresh water, ( missouri and arkansas lakes) and the springs are already rusting really bad, to the point where the once smooth action of the snap is really "scratchy" now. I have about 40 or so dives on them. Of course these brass snaps are like $1.50 for the big ones so you can replace them pretty often, but i would hate to have one go bad and loose something.
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