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I reckon I could sell a load of these to the IANTD guys in the UK with their steel stages & metal-metal connections? I will get them made in green/yellow (so they are nitrox compatible obviously) & maybe a stripey red for the trimix guys? Color is *so* important for safety. I think I could clean up here & beat the NASDAQ... On Fri, 12 October 2001, Trey wrote: > > The inflation device is nothing more than a racing bike innertube wound > around the top of the bottle and inflated to about 1". It is unnecessary if > you :1) use enough helium, 2) use plastic pressure gauges, 3) your hardware > is minimal, and you use the Luxfer tanks. The reason you have not seen it is > that it is not that noticeable in the photos, but look again knowing it is > there and you will see it. > > We used to use it a lot but now even when I dive shallow cave like Manatee I > put enough helium in the mixes to keep the bottles near neutral. Pina and I > like to dive the back of that cave and it takes a few stages to get there > from Catfish and dive without using back gas. This requires that the stages > not be heavy or it will slow you down too much. We have been using the same > sets of doubles without filling them for months in there only occasionally > Haskelling heliox into them to top them off. > > Not all of out guys have Haskells so some of out bottles are not above the > 65-70% helium mark that it takes to keep them neutral, and that is why we > initially used the tubes. We were using them mostly to get large blacks of > bottles way back in the cave, and it worked well. We then deflate them . regards, Dave -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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