Water drainage from wings

[jagfish]

In reading past posts and manufacterer's websites, I see that Oxycheq might have some setup for making water drainage from wings easier. One or two posts have also made mention of how it is sometimes difficult to drain water from a Pioneer or Eclipse wing.

Could anyone expand on this point. Is it a significant hassle? If so, does Oxycheq have the solution dialed in?

JAG

 

[Mo2vation]

In reading past posts and manufacterer's websites, I see that Oxycheq might have some setup for making water drainage from wings easier. One or two posts have also made mention of how it is sometimes difficult to drain water from a Pioneer or Eclipse wing.

Could anyone expand on this point. Is is a significant hassle? If so, does Oxycheq have the solutoin dialed in?

JAG

Post dive - I fill it orally, then put the hose to where the mouthpiece is supposed to be (mine came with no mouthpiece... whatever) and put some clean water in it. Slosh around, and repeat two or three times until the water coming out isn't salty.

The I orally inflate it and turn it upside down for a couple of hours... it all sort of drains out, and the little bit that doesn't is pretty clean anyway.

Ain't no thing.

K

 

[jagfish]

...Basically the same as with a BC. I wonder what Oxycheq does that makes this process easier or more efficient...

JAG

 

[Scubaroo]

jagfish - there's two different types of "water trapping" here. One is draining water from inside the wing's aircell - ie water that gets let in when the inflator dump button is held open underwater - water can run down inside the inflator hose into the aircell. Mo2vation covered this. This can happen to either bladderless or bladder wings.

The other water trapping issue, which is what you've referred to, is for wings with a bladder covered by an outer shell - such as the OxyCheq Signature or Halcyon Eclipse (and most doubles wings). Here, water can get between the bladder and the shell - the Signature wing has a couple of stainless steel grommets in the bottom of the wing to allow this water to drain out (or be forced out when the wing is fully inflated). I think this is pretty much a standard feature across any wing with a seperate internal bladder, but there could be el-cheapo wings out there without it.

 

[jagfish]

gotcha!
Now I understand. So does anyone know if Halcyon has the grommets?

JAG

 

[d33ps1x]

There are drainage holes along the bottom of the Eclipse wing and there are no issues with draining the inner bladder.

 

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