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diveoceanos · 26th April 2008, 15:10

Quote: (Originally Posted by Brainx3)

carbon fiber cylinders... hopefully would make a difference to encourage people carry bail-outs more often since the weight of these cylinders are much lighter than aluminum. The results will be published in another thread.

Best Regards. Wael

How about the extra weights you would need to counter-balance their inherent buoyancy? IMHO clipping a carbon fiber cylinder on your side would ruin the whole trim and one would have to readjust everything regarding it, if s(he) does not tie-wrap weights around the CF cylinder...(this is the reason CF is not ideal for SCUBA either). How much weight would you have to add really to be properly weighted if you would replace an aluminium 10Lt with a CF one of the same capacity? I recon it should be more than 6-7 Kg? Right? Then what is the real benefit? You get rid of 2-4 extra kilos? And what is the cost of it?

On the other hand aluminium cylinders are practically ideal since they make almost no difference in buoyancy when are being used as B/O cylinders.

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diveoceanos New Member Current Rebreather/s: Megalodon Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cyprus Posts: 43	Re: Should I carry bailout?? Quote: (Originally Posted by Brainx3) carbon fiber cylinders... hopefully would make a difference to encourage people carry bail-outs more often since the weight of these cylinders are much lighter than aluminum. The results will be published in another thread. Best Regards. Wael How about the extra weights you would need to counter-balance their inherent buoyancy? IMHO clipping a carbon fiber cylinder on your side would ruin the whole trim and one would have to readjust everything regarding it, if s(he) does not tie-wrap weights around the CF cylinder...(this is the reason CF is not ideal for SCUBA either). How much weight would you have to add really to be properly weighted if you would replace an aluminium 10Lt with a CF one of the same capacity? I recon it should be more than 6-7 Kg? Right? Then what is the real benefit? You get rid of 2-4 extra kilos? And what is the cost of it? On the other hand aluminium cylinders are practically ideal since they make almost no difference in buoyancy when are being used as B/O cylinders.
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