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Jim >HEAL!, David, HEAL thyself of the EEEEVEAL Zipties, HEAL before you >forSAKE your DIVE or eeeeeven your LIFE! HEEEEEAAAAAL! Forgive me for I have sinned. Many years ago I was a stroke. Through the teachings of GMI3 and others I saw the error in my ways. I was soon converted to Hogarthian and DIR thinking. Every night thereafter I prayed in the direction of Ft Lauderdale. I became a believer and sold my Zeagle kit, bought OMS backplate and DiveRite Original wing, replaced my steel stages for aluminium, replaced shower heads for Apex regulators, bought Barry's Primary Light, Barry's backups, and George's scooter. Specifically, in my stroke days, I used CTs for many purposes. I saw the light here too. I re-configured my kit to avoid this. I even emailed techdiver outlining how to avoid the use an O-ring in a breakaway application and avoid a suggested use of a CT. I thought that with this act that my redemption was now complete. But alas Jim, deep within my soul, I have this unquenchable craving to use a CT. Only one application. Uno. I like the elegance of a single fitting which holds on the mouthpiece and lanyard. My whole body is racked with guilt but confession is good for the soul. My backup regulator is just that, it is mine. You cannot have it, I secure it around my neck in a way that I do not want it to break away. Thus I do not use a breakaway O-ring on my backup. I do accept that there is a possibility that the cable tie may break. If this happens, I may lose the mouthpiece and the backup will fall away. On the first point, I do not worry about losing the mouthpiece. Last weekend, my mouthpiece on my 35% deco bottle failed so I cut it off and did the that phase of deco without a mouthpiece just to see if it was doable. It was. So what if I lose lanyard and the backup due to CT breakage? No worse than a breakaway O-ring failing and perhaps as likely? So I feel I am no worse off than with your kind suggestion from on high. Penitently yours. David Shimell Project Manager, Sequent Computer Systems Ltd., Sandton, South Africa. Email: shimell@se*.co* <mailto:shimell@se*.co*> -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cobb [SMTP:cobber@ci*.co*] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 8:32 PM To: David Shimell (shimell); Tech Diver Subject: Re: DIR Rigging Answers You know I won't let this lay... ;) David what you really need to do is to tie an oring to your reg with cave line and then tie the oring to your neck lanyard tubing. This way you have a predictable failure point for your second should you need it off you in a hurry. It's funny that you use a zip in this situation because it was with precisely this application that I had a zip tie fail. The reg was hanging from the lanyard, I heard a "clunk" behind me, I turned around and the reg had fallen off the neck lanyard and the ziptie was sitting on the deck. And even after that I had 2 more fail at random times before I realized that I had a Holy Calling to chase down and destroy the evil Ziptie empire wherever they may appear. HEAL!, David, HEAL thyself of the EEEEVEAL Zipties, HEAL before you forSAKE your DIVE or eeeeeven your LIFE! HEEEEEAAAAAL! Jim Sender: David Shimell (shimell) Date: 3/11/99 7:08 AM >Note, you should put your backup regulator's sling around your neck before >donning the long hose. The backup regulator's sling is surgical tubing with >a single cable tie (sorry Jim Cobb), securing both the mouthpiece and >surgical tubing sling. The reason for putting on backup first is to ensure >that the primary hose lies on top of everything else, thereby ensuring that >there is no snags when handing it off. Similarly, ensure the long hose is >not accidentally trapped in the waist strap or under the dry suit inflator >hose when kitting up or trapped by the light head if this is clipped off. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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