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silent running · 23rd December 2006, 02:56

Thanks a lot for putting up the pix of your setup Marty. Now I see. But I was hoping that I wouldn't need to have the mount point so low as I don't dive in cold water and wouldn't need the extra plate/space for drysuit bottle. I'm sure that you're right when you say that the pivot should be lower to keep the BO tank band in the middle of the cyl, which would seem to make it more stable. But I see that Mike and others have used the waist as a mount point and seem to think it works fine. To make matters more cloudy, the Golem kit is made of something which is not rigid like your extender plate and people seem to like it.

So my ? is: Does the main attachment point for the cyl really need to be in the center of it? Couldn't it be a little closer to the top and still keep it reasonably close to the same plane as the diver's body?

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silent running Mature mouth breather Current Rebreather/s: Prism Topaz Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: U.S.A. Brooklyn, New York Posts: 1,873	Re: Need ideas for attaching bailout bottles Thanks a lot for putting up the pix of your setup Marty. Now I see. But I was hoping that I wouldn't need to have the mount point so low as I don't dive in cold water and wouldn't need the extra plate/space for drysuit bottle. I'm sure that you're right when you say that the pivot should be lower to keep the BO tank band in the middle of the cyl, which would seem to make it more stable. But I see that Mike and others have used the waist as a mount point and seem to think it works fine. To make matters more cloudy, the Golem kit is made of something which is not rigid like your extender plate and people seem to like it. So my ? is: Does the main attachment point for the cyl really need to be in the center of it? Couldn't it be a little closer to the top and still keep it reasonably close to the same plane as the diver's body?
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