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Old 27-11-04, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Pierre Farrugia
Which weights are you refeering to ? I was considering in the future, when I find a good trim is to melt some lead in a block and fix it permanantly to the unit and rebove that bag!
Currently, I have a 2Kg weight in the bag on the top and 4Kg wedged in behined the two first stages. I intened to move those on top of the scrubber, wedged in behind the hoses to the handsets. Mark has tried this and found that it improved his trim. I also had 4Kg in blocks threaded onto the waist strap of the harness, these were quite near the back.

I found that I was very feet heavy on deco, it was infact very uncomfortable. If I relaxed and let my feet drop I rolled further than that and started to end up on my back.

So, I have added weight pockets, these are near the front, partly under the counter lungs, this should pull me forward a bit, plus increase the weight in the top to 3KG's. One thing that has also occured to me, and another reason why I have added weight pockets, I want to be able to remove the weights when I have to carry the unit around, your idea of a permenantly mounted weight would not be for me. The same goes for a back plate, I want to travel with the unit, I need to get the weight down for this, not increase it.

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