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Weighting with KT Reel
I have just started using a DSMBi with a Kent Tool ratchet reel. I love both and think they are fantastic. Have just done a few practice dives with them in Capernwray and Stoney so far. But when diving with a 15 on yesterday I felt very heavy going down at the start of the dive and didnt feel quite right in my weighting until I had sent up the blob.

My question is should I drop some lead to compensate for the increased weight of the new reel? I had thought not as at the end of the dive when I am at my most buoyant I would be deploying the blob so the reel would no longer be acting as weight making me floaty, given the last dive though I am not so sure
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No; you should never drop any weight to counter the effect of any equipment you carry that can be ditched (deliberately or accidentally)
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I have just started using a DSMBi with a Kent Tool ratchet reel. I love both and think they are fantastic. Have just done a few practice dives with them in Capernwray and Stoney so far. But when diving with a 15 on yesterday I felt very heavy going down at the start of the dive and didnt feel quite right in my weighting until I had sent up the blob.

My question is should I drop some lead to compensate for the increased weight of the new reel? I had thought not as at the end of the dive when I am at my most buoyant I would be deploying the blob so the reel would no longer be acting as weight making me floaty, given the last dive though I am not so sure
I would be wary of using anything that may become lost or detached to compensate for my weighting. I'd put up with it. The KT ratchet reel is a loverlee piece of kit though - reassuringly solid and heavy
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Was wary of dropping lead for equipment that wouldnt always be attatched to me. Guess I just wanted the YD approval stamp (we should order one of those by the way)


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The KT ratchet reel is a loverlee piece of kit though - reassuringly solid and heavy
Isnt it

Great for clocking stab jacket with when he navigates me to nowhere again
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