PfcAJ
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I really like the rubber belts with a normal buckle.
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Thankfully the last time I had to deal with the weight belt shifting around or chafing my skin was the dive before I switched to a rubber belt, 10 years or more ago. I've been using standard cam buckles. How do the pin-and-hole style belts hold up - does the hole ever tear?
I haven't seen the stretching, but a couple have eventually torn. One was a thin piece of junk, which failed suddenly under unexpected stress, but the one tear in a normal belt was after carelessly letting it get kinked and nicked during handling. Like your hole tears, it took many dives before it got close to separating. The current one is several years and a couple hundred dives old.I have looked at several different cam buckles that pinch a rubber belt. They always seemed too easy to pop open and if stretched a lot, then the belt gets thin and can slide under the cam buckle. If some people feel secure with them, then I guess it is not an issue.
Ok. Ordered Mako belt and will give it a try. Thank you all for your prompt and wise replies.