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I just bought the Sitech system out of idle curiousity. Unlike the DUI
rings, it allows using wrist seals with the gloves, and the wrist seals can
be quickly replaced in the field, and used with or without the gloves
(which are those great cheap blue PVC dipped fisherman's gloves, btw).

I'd understood the Sitech to have some sort of cam locking ring, but it
turns out it doesn't - there's a cam ring, but its purpose is to push the
sides apart when you want to remove the glove - to put the glove on, you
press the glove, which mounted on an O-ring sealed ring, into the other
ring which is on the suit.

However, it seems like a good system although I haven't tried them in the
water yet - the two sides are fairly easy to press together, and its a
straightforward maneuver unlike the contortions some other systems require,
and once together the glove is on snugly enough that it would be hard to
removed wihtout the cam ring.

Actaully theres two version of the cuff rings, the one I have which is
supposed to be permenently cemented to the onto the suit another which
works with wrist seals which are already glued on the suit, which brings us
to my one minor gripe - the guy I got them from said I could use the
glued-on version that way by slipping them inside the seals on my suit, the
wy the other rings work, until I got around to gluing them properly, but it
turns out there's no way, which is why I haven't gotten mine wet yet.

>Let me know what you find out; I'm about ready to do this to my CF200  suit
>also.  The dry glove system that comes on Zeagle drysuits seems to meet our
>requirements, but I don't know where they source it from.  Si-Tech maybe?  I
>went to Si-Tech's website but couldn't make much sense of it.  Anyone?
>
>Don't bother with the DUI system, as you lose the wrist seal in the process.
>Not familiar with the Bare or Viking systems.
>
>Cam
>
>
>> From: Ben Greenhouse <b.greenhouse@ut*.ca*>
>> Organization: University of Toronto
>> Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 23:33:04 -0400


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