#AskMark Hey Mark, I left a comment a while back about locating orange webbing! Well success, and now I’m looking to put my newly acquired orange harness and my BP together soon. Great video, I will be following this for my install! Thanks!
Any chance we can get a wee bit more detail on the crotch strap portion, and how one can adjust it when on/what if you cannot reach it due to your tank being just above your bum
You can't adjust them when you're wearing it, unless you're a lot more flexible than I am... Thread a glider onto the flat end with a D-ring. Then thread it through the backplate from the cylinder side and loop it back down and through the same glider. Try it on and take note of how much length you need to add or remove, a buddy can be handy for this. Once you've found the right length move the slider and D-Ring to when you can find it easily and trim any excess webbing.
#AskMark Hi Mark, thanks for your detailed explanation of a backplate and wing setup! I am looking forward to get my own BP/Wing-Setup, but I am a bit confused about some details. There are some BPs, that are larger and thicker (3mm vs. 6mm stainless steel) than others. When to choose which of them? I thought that I would be able to "move" my lead from the pockets into the BP, but if I switch from a single- to a double-tank-setup, than it may be too much.. I currently need 10-12kg of lead, with a dry suit here in the cold lakes in germany (and I'm 1.90m tall, if that makes any difference for choosing a BP-"length").
Some divers prefer to have most of their weight on their weighbelt, others prefer to spread the weight across their gear. Thicker backplates can replace some of the lead that you require but, it does make your BCD heavier to carry around and lift out of the water. If the thicker backplate would make you too heavy in the water with doubles then the thinner 3mm would be the safer choice. It's always better to be able to make yourself positively buoyant by just removing your weightbelt.
#ASKMARK I recently bought a ss bpw with 30lbs of lift. It has weight pockets on the waist band and i just discovered that with a total of 6 lbs of weight in the pockets, which is what i need, the wing won’t float my HP steel 100 in fresh water. I don’t really want to buy a larger wing with more drag and i feel that it’s important that the wing should be able to float the tank/rig. I shore dive and doff/don in the water which is a real pain with a negative rig. Is it time to switch to a weight belt and take the weight off the bpw? Am i missing something? Thanks, John
If you think about what floats and what sinks, a lot of your +ve buoyancy is in the suit that you're wearing and all of what's -ve is on your BCD. It's the main downside to weight integrated BCDs. I'd spread that weight out a bit. You don't need to put all of it on a weightbelt but, if you put 2 or 4 lbs on a weightbelt then you should still be able to float while wearing it and hopefully your BCD will also float. If it doesn't then you may need to move all the lead to a more traditional weightbelt.
You certainly can put a D-Ring on the right hip. The main reason why some divers don't put a D-Ring on the right hip is that in a long hose configuration it can tangle the regulator hose if you have anything clipped to it, making it difficult to donate gas. But, if you have need for a D-Ring on the right hand side you can place one there if you like.
#ASKMARK Hi Mark, last year I bought the XDeeep first stage regulator NX700. As you probably aware, this has been recalled by XDeep due to safety concern. I swap it with the new Xdeep CX100, but I did not find any review about that. Did you try it? Are you going to review it? Also what are you thoughts about the recall? Thank you!
I haven't tried the CX100 yet. I do have some XDEEP gear I'm testing now but, no regs... I like the recalls, it's inconvenient but, it's in the interest of safety. Dive equipment can pass all tests and requirements but, hand it to the general public and we'll find a way to break it. At least XDEEP are making innovations and this will only improve their next generation of 1st stages.
#ASKMARK - We are about to undertake some sub-tropical to temperate water ‘wreck’ dives from a max of 20*Deg Celsius - down to a min of 4*Deg Celsius. Could you take us through the full purchase process to acquire quality backplates, harness and wing assembly & its configuration to carry 2 x 12Litre Faber ‘Nitrox’ dive tanks, ALSO the purchase, fitting and installing all quality apparatus from 1st & 2nd stages through to a compatible dive computer with Gas Mixing capabilities, a dry suit - either tri-laminate or neoprene, fins, googles, hood, gloves and dive knife, torch, SMB, spares (emergencies, breakage or damaged say ‘O’ rings, spare D rings and double ended clips, etc. You will have a total budget of say 10,000€ being 5,000€ each for 2 divers. Can it be done?
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Hey Mark, I left a comment a while back about locating orange webbing! Well success, and now I’m looking to put my newly acquired orange harness and my BP together soon.
Great video, I will be following this for my install!
Thanks!
Nice, where did you find it in case anybody else is searching?
@@ScubaDiverMagazine I got it from “Narked At 90” they have a range of colours in stock.
Any chance we can get a wee bit more detail on the crotch strap portion, and how one can adjust it when on/what if you cannot reach it due to your tank being just above your bum
You can't adjust them when you're wearing it, unless you're a lot more flexible than I am...
Thread a glider onto the flat end with a D-ring. Then thread it through the backplate from the cylinder side and loop it back down and through the same glider.
Try it on and take note of how much length you need to add or remove, a buddy can be handy for this. Once you've found the right length move the slider and D-Ring to when you can find it easily and trim any excess webbing.
What is the benefit of building a back plate setup vs buying a bcd . What is the cost of building a back plate set up?
#AskMark Hi Mark, thanks for your detailed explanation of a backplate and wing setup! I am looking forward to get my own BP/Wing-Setup, but I am a bit confused about some details. There are some BPs, that are larger and thicker (3mm vs. 6mm stainless steel) than others. When to choose which of them? I thought that I would be able to "move" my lead from the pockets into the BP, but if I switch from a single- to a double-tank-setup, than it may be too much.. I currently need 10-12kg of lead, with a dry suit here in the cold lakes in germany (and I'm 1.90m tall, if that makes any difference for choosing a BP-"length").
Some divers prefer to have most of their weight on their weighbelt, others prefer to spread the weight across their gear.
Thicker backplates can replace some of the lead that you require but, it does make your BCD heavier to carry around and lift out of the water. If the thicker backplate would make you too heavy in the water with doubles then the thinner 3mm would be the safer choice. It's always better to be able to make yourself positively buoyant by just removing your weightbelt.
What is the benefits of building a back plate vs buying a bcd and what is the cost of building a back plate?
#ASKMARK I recently bought a ss bpw with 30lbs of lift. It has weight pockets on the waist band and i just discovered that with a total of 6 lbs of weight in the pockets, which is what i need, the wing won’t float my HP steel 100 in fresh water. I don’t really want to buy a larger wing with more drag and i feel that it’s important that the wing should be able to float the tank/rig. I shore dive and doff/don in the water which is a real pain with a negative rig. Is it time to switch to a weight belt and take the weight off the bpw? Am i missing something? Thanks, John
If you think about what floats and what sinks, a lot of your +ve buoyancy is in the suit that you're wearing and all of what's -ve is on your BCD. It's the main downside to weight integrated BCDs.
I'd spread that weight out a bit. You don't need to put all of it on a weightbelt but, if you put 2 or 4 lbs on a weightbelt then you should still be able to float while wearing it and hopefully your BCD will also float. If it doesn't then you may need to move all the lead to a more traditional weightbelt.
@@ScubaDiverMagazine thanks Mark ill move some weight to a belt and see how it works out. John
Thanks for the video, super useful. Why not put a D ring on each side of the waist belt?
You certainly can put a D-Ring on the right hip. The main reason why some divers don't put a D-Ring on the right hip is that in a long hose configuration it can tangle the regulator hose if you have anything clipped to it, making it difficult to donate gas.
But, if you have need for a D-Ring on the right hand side you can place one there if you like.
@@ScubaDiverMagazine Ah yeah that makes sense, thanks for the answer !!
#ASKMARK Hi Mark, last year I bought the XDeeep first stage regulator NX700. As you probably aware, this has been recalled by XDeep due to safety concern. I swap it with the new Xdeep CX100, but I did not find any review about that. Did you try it? Are you going to review it? Also what are you thoughts about the recall? Thank you!
I haven't tried the CX100 yet. I do have some XDEEP gear I'm testing now but, no regs...
I like the recalls, it's inconvenient but, it's in the interest of safety. Dive equipment can pass all tests and requirements but, hand it to the general public and we'll find a way to break it. At least XDEEP are making innovations and this will only improve their next generation of 1st stages.
🤿 love your videos.
#ASKMARK - We are about to undertake some sub-tropical to temperate water ‘wreck’ dives from a max of 20*Deg Celsius - down to a min of 4*Deg Celsius. Could you take us through the full purchase process to acquire quality backplates, harness and wing assembly & its configuration to carry 2 x 12Litre Faber ‘Nitrox’ dive tanks, ALSO the purchase, fitting and installing all quality apparatus from 1st & 2nd stages through to a compatible dive computer with Gas Mixing capabilities, a dry suit - either tri-laminate or neoprene, fins, googles, hood, gloves and dive knife, torch, SMB, spares (emergencies, breakage or damaged say ‘O’ rings, spare D rings and double ended clips, etc. You will have a total budget of say 10,000€ being 5,000€ each for 2 divers. Can it be done?
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