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***ScubaDadMiami*** · 19th June 2006, 16:34

After seeing a picture of myself (a great way to see how your gear configuration is working out), I changed my sidemount setup, lengthening the tail straps on my aluminum 40 tanks. However, even when full, the tail is floating up. With an oxygen bottle down to 500 psi, it floated so much that it was in the way when I went to practice shutting down the oxygen valve during a solenoid stuck open drill.

If you carry aluminum 40s, how much weight are you adding to your tanks to keep it from floating up? I want the minimum possible. I am guessing that two pounds should do it. This would be for salt water.

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*ScubaDadMiami* Moderator Current Rebreather/s: Optima Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 2,066	Sidemounting with Aluminum Tanks After seeing a picture of myself (a great way to see how your gear configuration is working out), I changed my sidemount setup, lengthening the tail straps on my aluminum 40 tanks. However, even when full, the tail is floating up. With an oxygen bottle down to 500 psi, it floated so much that it was in the way when I went to practice shutting down the oxygen valve during a solenoid stuck open drill. If you carry aluminum 40s, how much weight are you adding to your tanks to keep it from floating up? I want the minimum possible. I am guessing that two pounds should do it. This would be for salt water. __________________ Howard Packer IANTD CCR Instructor Miami Beach, Florida CCRDiveTraining.com Last edited by ScubaDadMiami : 19th June 2006 at 16:38.
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