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Todd Leonard  <toddl@in*.co*> wrote:
>I've noticed that in referring to the "left post" or "right post" of a 
>set of doubles, some people mean it one way and some the other.  I've
>been saying it using the orientation I'd have if I were wearing the rig
>(the "left" valve could roll-off when moving forward and is where you'd
>put the short hose on a Hogarthian rig), but other people say it using 
>the orientation they'd have when looking at the rig leaning up against 
>a wall or maybe putting the thing together (the opposite).  ...

IMHO the only correct "left" and "right" of a rig are your own left and
right as you're wearing it.  If somebody has to visualize the rig sitting
in front of them, then it should be looking at the backs of the tanks,
with the harness on the other side, in order to keep things on their
proper side.  Swapping left and right in a discussion can only lead to
mondo confusion.

It's the same as with a car; the left headlight is the left headlight,
even though it's always the one on your right when you can see them.

-- 
Anthony DeBoer                                  http://www.onramp.ca/~adb/
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