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Use the giant ones with the giant eyes , or the giant brass ones and just change them out from time to time and be sure you have not crushed them shut before you dive. I have huge hands and do not have any problem with the big bolt snaps. My hands fit halfway around a football. 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 > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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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