Will-

I did the same thing, made a travel rig out of an ABS backplate and a ABS 
diverite adapter and a set of small Divers Supply wings. It is not as 
well supported out of the water as doubles, but once you are in, it works 
fine. The ABS makes it light weight for travel.

   Jim

On 11/24/97 1:09 PM William M. Smithers wrote:

>
>You're right, it doesn't sound very sturdy, but it is actually
>pretty solid, at least the DiveRite one is.  The hard part isn't the 
>adapter, it's finding a set of wings small enough so that they won't 
>wrap around the tank.
>
>I put one of these together (found a set of BC Junior wings, which
>DiveRite doesn't make anymore) for vacation-type reef diving, and
>lemme tell you, once you've tried a backplate and harness on a
>reef (or other jacket-style BC application), you'll never go back.
>
>-Will
>
>On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Steve Lindblom wrote:
>
>> I've been thinking it would be nice to have a single tank adaptor for my
>> backplate, and would be interested in any comments or advice - there are no
>> shops that carry them up this way, so I have never seen one in the flesh,
>> let alone had a chance to try one. Looking at the pictures, though,, I
>> don't see how they could be very rigid - most of them appear to strap the
>> tank to a \_/ shaped SS channel, then bolt this channel to the backplate.
>> But considering the size of the bolts and the contact patch, and the fact
>> that the wings and grommets are in between. it doesn't seem this would be
>> very rigid, expecially with a big tank.
>> 
>> 
>> Also, someone mentioned here a  while back there was an easy way to make
>> the adaptor out of plastic pipe, but going through the archives I haven't
>> been able to find anything about it.
>> 
>> 
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