'Religious Gloves' - with what to replace them?

[budgy]

I've tried the rest, I now use marigolds 'cause they are the best.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by beanie

just use holy gloves I do

Noooo.....too cold!!!

Originally Posted by beanie

3 finger mitts good - better than dry gloves

Ace

Originally Posted by beanie

if you pull along wrecks you'll destroy any glove so go cheap

Good advice!

Originally Posted by imported_andyp

Yeh Mark and I got the Scubapro 5MM gloves withthe teflon bit on the palm

Bullet proof, but they take a fair bit of breaking in before you can ben your fingers.

Does that mean finger movement/grip is affected after initial breaking in? I'll still need to clip off stuff??

Originally Posted by wreckweasel

Scubapros are great! If you want any glove to last longer... coat the points of contact with aquasure.

Aquasure...H'mmm interesting thought...I'd forgotten Octopushers did sommat like that. Can this bring back gloves from the brink of holiness??

Originally Posted by Porg

Beaver Kevlar ones. Im Still on my first pair - and i have had them since i started diving.....

What.....since last Tuesday!! (only kidding - nice recommendation)

Originally Posted by nigelH

My favourite pair of gloves developed holes in the fingers.
My hands don't get cold so I still use them.

Too coooold

Originally Posted by Steve S

I use the mitts which are fantastic, warm, tough, easy to get on and off, warm, fantastic and tough seriously I have tried all sorts even the kevlar gauntlets and the mitts IMO beat all others I have tried hands down.

Good recommendation, thanks

Originally Posted by tom

I have the 5mm kevlar scubapro gloves as well. They're great, keep the hands very warm. If you go for these, make sure you get the semi-dry version with a neoprene seal inside the cuff.

Good point many thanks

Originally Posted by NotDeadYet

3 finger mitts are great if you don't mind feeling like Zippy or Morph. That said, I find mitts a bit more dextrous than thick gloves once you are used to them. I never got on with dry gloves though I've been tempted to try them again. Don't underestimate the benefit of keeping your hands warm, I got stuck in a hole in the Alps a couple of years ago because my hands were so numb (4degC water in July) that I couldn't remove my stages. I ended up cutting them free and took a big chunk out my thumb because I couldn't feel where I was cutting. People have died after getting tangled and being too cold to work their shears/knife.

OW! (probably later due to cold) Interesting that you find mitts more dextrous, I would have guessed the opposite.

Originally Posted by Scubakit

Typhoon 3mm Kevlar gloves are the dogs bollox! I've had mine for 3 years and they're still going strong.

Kat

Nice recommendation, many thanks.





Cheers everyone, Paul

[tiewrapdiver]

I got some cheap 3mm gloves too that need replacing at the Dive show.

Also i got some of the Posideon 3 finger mittens, they are awesome, really warm. Only problem with them is that you cant stick your finger up at your buddy.

Tim

[Dave Crampton]

I began with Typhoon drygloves, with that handy o-ring attachment system. They are very warm in the water as they have thick fleece gloves inside. The down side to this was that you either put then on before kitting up/ mask wash, or dried off your hands after washing your mask out. When they started to perforate (develop tiny holes) I tried fixing but in the end binned them for those 5mm three finger ones Dalesdivers sell. I've not looked back. The three finger ones are very warm but I might look at getting drygloves for any diving in water down to 3 degrees, Hodge etc..

Dave C

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by tiewrapdiver

Also i got some of the Posideon 3 finger mittens, they are awesome, really warm. Only problem with them is that you cant stick your finger up at your buddy.

Tim

I remember a traffic cop telling me that the advantage of mitts was that Joe public couldn't see him giving them the finger when he was directing traffic!!!

Cheers, Paul

[Andy Phillips]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Does that mean finger movement/grip is affected after initial breaking in? I'll still need to clip off stuff??

No, they are fine for 95% of things that you might want to do, but bear in mind they are still 5mm gloves so very small clips can be a pain. I have used them for a year and not had any problems at all.

Andrew

[Scuby]

If you dive in any cold quarries in the winter, get dry gloves! If not, then anything will do because the water will probably be warm(ish) anyway.

And yes dry gloves can get holes in, but mine were as warm as a normal wet glove when full of water, and once you have the dryglove 'system' (ie the rings) then certainly with mine (from Stoney) you can change the glove part for £3 per pair - exactly the same as what comes with the glove, takes about 5 minutes to swap them over. See http://www.baconsdozen.co.uk/gloves.htm (the Showna 660) for the replacement gloves. With these you can wear separate inner gloves (from any shop, stops them smelling so much since you can wash them) but you can get them with the liner if you ask. For £3, its really not worth keeping gloves with holes in, even if they are perfectly fine (and mine lasted around 6 months of quite a lot of wrecks before they needed replacing - again not all that long, but when you get effectively brand new gloves every 6 montsh for £3 its really not a problem)

David