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Christian, Installing the Oceanic Spring Straps is not that big a deal! First debur (with a fine file) the end you are going to pass through the fin. Heat the rubber passageway with hot running water, apply soap to the "C" clip and jam it into the socket. Grab the lower side with nedle nose plairs and guide it on through. No bending-no rubber damage. Just completed the task the other day. No bending metal and no rubber damage. The straps are still out there. I found four pairs at two shops. Patience pays off. Regards, Stan Dilcher >From: Christian Gerzner <christiang@pi*.co*.au*> >To: "techdiver@aquanaut.com" <techdiver@aquanaut.com> >Subject: Spring Heel Straps >Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 21:44:18 +1000 > >Folks, > >About a month ago there was some conjecture on this list as to the >availability of the original Oceanic Spring Heel Straps as advertised on >a UK list. > >Well, it was entirely genuine and I actually got two pairs, except that >a (now former <g>) mate immediately muscled the second pair out of me. > >Right now I still use Mares Power Plana Graphites. Pretty bullet proof, >good kick but in sea water a little buoyant, nevertheless I'm pretty >happy with this (second) pair and will only go to Jetfins when the >latter finally kick the bucket, especially since I'm only a seawater diver. > >I've seen (thank you gentlemen) the mounting techniques for these straps >from a number of our stalwarts but I worried about then getting them >onto Jetfins if I modified, "bent the wires", of the Straps themselves. > >So I went to a mate of mine who makes tailor made gear locally. > >It seems an elegant solution, given the constraints above and I have a >couple of pics and, of course, can produce more detailed ones if >required, essentially the current ones are only snapshots. > >Anybody want to host it? Cobber, Jon B, Todd L? Note, please, alpha >order that. > >Essentially it attaches the Straps to the original mounting points via >webbing, is tantamount to bullet proof and does not physically change >the original Straps in any way. > >Cheers, > >Christian >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail 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'.
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