Cam, your best bet for these is marine supply stores.  I bought a whole
bunch of the single end swivel eyes, as well as double enders in 316
stainless.  One think to look for - get ones with square thumb slides
instead of the rounded teardrop ones that are so prevalent.  These are
much more tactile with the gloves on.

-Sean


On Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:57:28 PST, Cam Banks wrote:

>So, the only part of me that is non-DIR (besides solo-diving...) is the damn 
>bolt snaps.  I cannot operate itty-bitty brass bolt snaps with 5mm gloves on 
>and loose pre-bent d-rings.  I have tried putting a bit of surgical tubing 
>around the d-ring under the webbing to help it stay in one place, and we 
>will see how that works.
>
>I cannot find any large stainless bolt-snaps.  The ones EE sells are still 
>quite small.  Larger stainless bolt-snaps is the official DIR answer to my 
>problem above, but the snaps aren't any longer than a couple inches in 
>length above the eye, which is too small on my brass ones.  I will order 
>some and try it, but I have my doubts.
>
>The stainless double-end dog clips are a decent length, about 4" or so, but 
>for most applications I want to use the swivel eye bolt clip which only 
>opens on one end.  Any suggestions or things I've missed?  Note that I've 
>said I'm at least going to TRY it the DIR way, but I dont' expect to have 
>much luck.  Thanks.
>
>Cam
>
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