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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BF2AE2.20892EA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I do repairs on divers B.C.'s, backpacks, etc. on an industrial machine. = I have replaced many broken fastex type buckles that have cracked or = failed. I have personally broken more than one two inch wide fastex = type side-release buckle, and broken several of the one inch size. They = become brittle after prolonged exposure to the sun and crack quite = easily if you step on one, particularly if it's cold. (The manufacturer = will claim that it was "A bad batch of mix.) I dive with a single piece of webbing threaded through my backplate. The = only way to go! I have little problem getting out of the rig by floating = it over my head... I just breath off the long hose and hunch if forward, = head down. Don't forget to release your low pressure dry suit hookup and = flip your backup reg. off from around your neck... that can be = embarrassing! Scott Gudmundsen Vernal, Utah ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BF2AE2.20892EA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I do repairs on divers B.C.'s, = backpacks, etc. on=20 an industrial machine. I have replaced <U>many broken fastex type = buckles</U>=20 that have cracked or failed. I have personally broken more than = one two=20 inch wide fastex type side-release buckle, and broken several of the one = inch=20 size. They become brittle after prolonged exposure to the sun and=20 crack quite easily if you step on one, particularly if it's cold. = (The=20 manufacturer will claim that it was "A bad batch of mix.)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I dive with a single piece of webbing = threaded=20 through my backplate. The only way to go! I have little problem getting = out of=20 the rig by floating it over my head... I just breath off the long hose = and hunch=20 if forward, head down. Don't forget to release your low pressure dry = suit hookup=20 and flip your backup reg. off from around your neck... that can be=20 embarrassing!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Scott Gudmundsen</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Vernal, Utah</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BF2AE2.20892EA0-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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