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I replaced my bondage wings with a pair of original wings and setup my 
backplate a la' hogarthian. I notice from the video that you run the 
sholder strap differently through the bottom of the backplate in a couple 
of scenes. As I could not find that WEB address which has your drawing, I 
used the method you showed at the opening of the video on that plastic 
backplate. Is this one of those personal preference things? <g>

Changing over to the single bladder wings allowed me to ditch 1 LP hose 
and inflator valve assembly. While I was at it I ditched my extra 
pressure guage, but I'm not so sure about this. Sure makes the hose 
situation look cleaner. I see now why you use the posiden first stages. 
My mk10's cause the hoses to get in the way of the inflator hose.

 Once in the drink, the thing I noticed right away is that the standard 
wings are more stable under water than the bondage wings. I think the 
reason why is that the wings wrap around the doubles. When you have air 
in them, the air bubbles are on the sides of the tanks rather than  
bondaged underneath them. I spent about 2.5 hours underwater checking the 
rig out, I'm gonna stick with it.

Your method of rigging the webbing seems to makes the tanks more stable 
than the "deluxe harness", but at the expense of comfort, in my opinion. 
When the shoulder straps were adjusted so they were comfortable on the 
surface, they were loose under water. To make them secure underwater, 
they were uncomfortable on the surface. Maybe some sort of chest strap 
would help. Any of your guys use one?

You are right once again. You are the man.

   Jim

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