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Dear Manos, Where are you? Yes I take it apart, if I am leaving them at the shop. Not If taking them straight home. Then break it down. We are talking minutes here...... I have twin 100's and twin 55's and singles. So I swap them around regularly. Diverite transpac and OMS harness. For the twin bands, I use a continuous thread. Two lock nuts on the backplate side, one on the outside of the bands to lock them on to tanks. Then the threads on the back plate side pass through the backplate or harness and lock on with washer and wing nuts. Or if a dive rite harness then use the diverite brackets and wing nuts. When you put a staight edge across the tanks on the backplate side the top of the bolts are about 0.5 of a cm below. The bolts will not rub on your suit. ___ / \ I dive in tropical waters alot, so I have padding over the back plate. Twin tanks are NOT held on with cam bands. I don't know if all the above is DIR. The more I study DIR the more I change stuff. The padded transpac or padded backplates are good for me because this time of year we wear a thin suit for protection from BOX JELLY FISH , not thermal. I did two wreck dives last weekend (20m), the water was 31 degrees C !!! Jeff of Darwin. At 11:26 21/12/99 +0200, you wrote: >Thanks for the info Jeffrey , but do you actually disassemble your wings >when you take your tanks for filling ? > > >Jeffrey Swann wrote: > >> Dear Manos, >> Why do you want to leave your wings on? >> My gear breaks down in a few minutes. >> With two wing nuts, my wings, harness and twins separate. >> The bands have lock nuts, and stay on the tanks. >> The back plate just goes on with two washers and two wing nuts. >> I use continuous threads with lock nuts, and can set up all my gear >> overseas including banding the tanks, in less than an hour. >> Just carry two 1/2 inch or 13mm spanners. >> Jeff >> At 15:54 17/12/99 +0200, you wrote: >> >Planing to upgrade from Scuba pro xtek Bc to Metal Backplate. Can i >> >still use my xtek wings ? on >> >various backplate manufactures ? which one do you people recommend >> >between Xtek-OMS-Halcyon-Extreme exposure, i quite like the shape of the >> >last one. >> >I fell also a bit cautious for my wings left in the dive shop banging on >> >other tanks until filling. >> > >> > >> >-- >> >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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