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Scuba Forum / Scuba Equipment / June 20058 lb soft weight pouch
Need an 8 pound soft weight pouch. Know anywhere cheap I can buy on the internet? Thank you. > Need an 8 pound soft weight pouch. Know anywhere cheap I can buy on the > internet? You don't want an eight. You want a five and a three. A five and a three have a very significant advantage: you can buy them. Is it really summer already? >> Need an 8 pound soft weight pouch. Know anywhere cheap I can buy on the >> internet? > >You don't want an eight. > >You want a five and a three. Maybe he really needs an 18 and already has a 10? >A five and a three have a very significant advantage: you can buy them. Maybe, but after adding shipping and hazmat, the LDS is still the cheapest source for weights. >Is it really summer already? Not by the calendar, but by the internet... ya. --- Rich http://richlockyer.tripod.com/ Okay, 4 and 4. > Need an 8 pound soft weight pouch. Know anywhere cheap I can buy on the > internet? > > Thank you. Dive Rite makes reasonably priced pouches that will thread onto your weight belt. They'll hold 4lbs easily. I've also got some clip on 1 kg weights that slip on and clamp onto my waist strap, but they're not cheap. Lee > Okay, 4 and 4. >> Need an 8 pound soft weight pouch. Know anywhere cheap I can buy on the >> internet? >> >> Thank you. > Okay, 4 and 4. You don't listen, do you? You don't want four and four. You want five and three. Five and three have a significant advantage: you can buy them. Are you typical of the summer hatch? .. >You want five and three. Five and three have a significant advantage: >you can buy them. .. There is plenty of evidnce in the dive-weight-graveyard in my garrage that you can also buy four lb soft weight pouches! A Google seard (8 eight lb pound soft weight) found one at http://www.island-scuba.com/page/001/prod/weights/WT08 (If I typed this correctly!) The appear to over 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 10 pound sizes. Personally, I find that total weights over 5 (or maybe 6) lbs are better made up from two smaller weights. This makes it easier to adjust weight amount and placement for correct bouancy and trim. It also makes it easier to ditch part, rather than all, of your weight. Pernaps the original poster could explain why [he thinks] he needs a single 8 pound weight?  SignatureCharlie Hammond -- Hewlett-Packard Company -- Ft Lauderdale FL USA (hammond@not@peek.ssr.hp.com -- remove "@not" when replying) All opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily my employer's. > Pernaps the original poster could explain why [he thinks] he needs a > single 8 pound weight? I have two, eight-pound, soft, weights that I've used regularly for years. The 16 pounds helps for the weight difference between high-pressure doubles and a low-pressure single. I add two three-pound weights or two five-pound weights in addition to the sixteen pounds. (22-26 pounds total.) I see the heavier weights as a convenience. What is so odd? I regularly use 3, 5, and 8 pound weights. Diving doubles I don't use weight unless the tanks are close to empty; usually the third dive. Diving with a low-pressure 95 weight is essential to descend and two eight's are quite insufficient. >> Pernaps the original poster could explain why [he thinks] he needs a >> single 8 pound weight? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >close to empty; usually the third dive. Diving with a low-pressure 95 >weight is essential to descend and two eight's are quite insufficient. Well, 22-26 lbs is a L.O.T or weight. However, that is another issue. (I'm sure you can start a discussion about that if you want.) Given that you are using that much eight, I can see that the 8 pounders could be a convenience. Was the reference I sent you of any use? SignatureCharlie Hammond -- Hewlett-Packard Company -- Ft Lauderdale FL USA (hammond@not@peek.ssr.hp.com -- remove "@not" when replying) All opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily my employer's. |
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