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> In response to your question regardings doubles bands.  There is a 
> mnufacturer (I cannot recall who) that markets a soft band set up for 
> doubles.  Personally, I would not trust it to hold the tanks together 
> without significant torquing of the manifold. 

The soft double bands which you are thinking of may be the ones made by
Aqua Explorer, Dan Berg's company.  These bands hold each tank by two
independant cam straps and are bolted onto a backplate.  This allows 
each tank to be carried seperately and allows for the pairing of disimilar 
tanks.  Useing these bands witha manifold is illadvised.  

These bands were designed to be attached to a backpack (or some BCs)
designed to hold a single tank.  As such, there is a convex section 
that fits into the concave section of the backpack were the single tank 
would sit.  This makes these bands particularly bad to use with the 
Dive-Rite backplate as the center of the Dive-Rite backplate itself,
comes out at least an inch.  This space added to the space caused by the 
convex section of the bands causes the tanks to sit several inches away 
from the divers back, an unstable condition.  


Philip Weissman

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