StiX strobe arms?

[Akimbo]

Has anyone tried the StiX strobe arms? They look like a small diameter aluminum tube, a plastic ball at both ends, and their floats are optional. No O-ring on the ball, but shouldn’t be difficult to add a groove if needed.

Stix Underwater Buoyancy Strobe Arms & Floats

Review of StiX buoyancy arms by Cor Bosman and Julie Edwards :: Wetpixel.com

 

[mjh]

They are an excellent system. Cor's report is a little old now. Stix has made the floats to work with a variety of existing strobe arms. You can't use them with the round style strobe arms. One pack of Jumbo's or Full 3 has four blocks that give you a total lift of 1.5lbs. I have had them down to just over 200fsw, you could see them compressing a little but still provided lift. Trays, Arms & Mounts :: Arms & Clamps :: Floats :: Stix - Jumbo Float kit for I-DAS or ULCS Arms -

 

[Akimbo]

I am really asking about their stobe arms more than the floats, which have become pretty standard.

 

[WOODMAN]

Interesting- I had not seen this system before, with removable balls on the ends of the rods... Well, that is one way to do it, but is pretty expensive, it seems to this old miser. I still think my way of making floats from non-compressible foam sheet and clamping two halves around a standard strobe arm with a zip tie is the easiest and cheapest way to do this. I have been using this system for years now, with virtually complete neutral buoyancy on my fairly heavy rig, and it assembles and breaks down with no tools except for a small nipper to cut the zip tie. You can dig up my old postings on this for pictures of how I did it. But to each his own...