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This is bullshit. For one thing there is no reason to be constantly looking at a pressure guage unless you are deep air diving - this post of yours is a dead giveaway that this is what you do. This mentality is NO different than constantly looking at your watch while smoking pot, and for EXACTLY the same reasons. Secondly , this is one more short-sighted, ill thought out attempt to pervert a system that you have not bothered to understand at all. First, let's lose the wrod "hogarthian" - this is not the system we use. Now, to put a pressure guage on your inflator hose is to constantly flex the stiff hp hose everytime you move anything or add or delete gas from your wings - not too smart. It also adds stiffness to the hose, and if you look closely, the hose will seek its position for ease of dumping WITHOUT moving the position of the body - it will not do that with a hp hose attached to it, and the end of the stiff hose is going to be sticking out all of the time or intefering with eveything else. The easiest thing is to bend the inflator back on itself and press the deflate button. The stage bottles are attached to the d-ring that houses the bungee to hold the inflator hose, and to add a lolipop guage in there ( or anything else) invites constant tangle and will end up causing the inflator or deflator to get pressed by the bottles and anything else that gets near it, while the protruding end of the guage will catch everything that passes it, interfere with your backup lights which are hanging there, and interfere with the operation of your stage bottles and the gear on the bottles. The hp hose needs to be straight and have a large radius when bent to view the guage - so as not to stress out this very important hose and its swage. To have the hose in the bungee or the ring at this point means a tiny radius and constant stress. Also, spinning the pressure guage on its barrel high pressure air spool while under pressure breaks the spool at the little neck before the o-ring groove and causes the ring to let go and the guage freeflows. Only a real stroke would not know this. To view a guage in this position you either need to have lobster eyes or you need to spin it back and bend the hose - a double "no no". The DIR hip location allows proper safe deployment , while keeping the hose straight and streamlined against the body at all times, but can be viewed while scootering without coming off of the hammer or twisting the guage. When you come up with crap like this, please leave out the words "horgarthian" or "DIR", and merely refer to whatever "style" or "personal preferenece" you are practicing as "stroke rig", because that is what it is, and that is what it represents. Do not confuse DIR with any convolution or other bullshit - either do it, or go ahead and be a stroke all the way so that nobody wastes any dives on you. The reason I dive with so few people is that I do not have time to deal with the perpetual cluster that ensuues when the DETAILS are blatently ignored or mutillated to the point where the dives just can't get done successfully. Why do you think that I have no aborts or excuses, only results, and those that try to compete with us just can not get the job done? THE LITTLE DETAILS. Kevin E. Harris wrote: > > Folks: > Understanding of course the DIR (hogarth) method is on > the left (only) hip D ring - Has anyone experimented > with shortening the SPG hose and bundling it with > their LP inflator (both come off the left post)? > > Configuring the SPG at the inflator buttons (I have > seen this done) seems to make SPG very accessible for > those of us with thick gloves. > > One drawback may be the weight of the SPG causing the > LP inflator to hang. > > Another drawback may be your choice of SPG which may > be too large and therefore cover the inflator causing > difficulties with inflation or deflation. > > ===== > Kevin E. Harris > > Life is like a grindstone, > Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of! > Author Unknown > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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