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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 05:10:04 -0800
From: iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* (IANTD )
Subject: Re: Long and short reg hose configurations
To: Egil Aabel Naesguthe <egil@me*.Qu*.CA*>
Cc: techdiver@terra.net
Egil
If you just do the 1/4 wrap around the neck the long hose should stay 
in place even without being run under a light cannister. For a tighter 
wrap simply stow part of the hose in your waist strap it will stay 
there until deployed.
Tom
You wrote: 
>
>Just two questions:
>
>Is there a way of "securing" the long hose so it stays close to the 
body 
>if one does not have a hip mounted battery canister to put it behind?
>
>Are there several different kinds of metal "elbow" joints for use at 
the 
>end of the short hose by the second stage?  I have only seen one kind, 
it 
>has a ball joint in the middle and hence the reg is free to move in 
any 
>direction.  I'm thinking that a fixed angle and a single swivel by the 

>second stage would be better, but do they exist, and how would they be 

>tightened and aligned wrt to the hose?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Egil.
>
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