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Hi John,
Thanks for the advice. When I bought my compressed Neo it came with an Apex low profile. I had problems initially flailing my arm trying to get it in the right position to dump. Them when I was < 6m from the surface it would also leak and wet my weezle. Only on ascent. I happened to buy ex-demo suits and cleaned the Apex dump (with a very handy colour technical picture / drawing down loaded from the Apex site). I have had a mixture of experiences with the dump, sometimes leaking at <= 6m and sometimes not. Its still a pain to twist my arm around to get the optimal arm placement to dump and not have air trapped in the sleave of my suit. I'll buy a SiTech one and see what the difference is. I suspect that it could be something to do with the positon of my dump as Typhoon place theirs in between the bi-cep and tri-cep on the left arm.
Something someone once said about the Apex low profile dumps is that the green plastic washer used to provide spring to push the outer plastic cover out when manually dumping, can get inverted and cause an open circuit for water to flow back in to the suit. Could someone tell me if this is right (i.e my under standing of the explantion) or not?
On a completely different point, the weight I add to become negatively buoyant when the cylinder is nearing empty (not actually empty of course, nearer 80bar for instance) is a little too much when the cylinder is full. As a result when I'm at the bottom at the start of a dive I have to fill my suit to become neutrally buoyant. trouble arises as my body is around 20 degrees off horizontal so my feet don't inflate, but any more and air occasionally bubbles/dumps up out of my neck seal. Is this because of my combination of toasty warm thick weezle and baggy Typhoon Neo? as I've seen some diver's drysuits that are very snugg fitting, similar in shape to a semidry?
Sorry for hijacking this thred.
Dave C  |