Solus mounting

[Captain Deco]

OK........

With some of my recently aquired Solus money I am intending to buy one their rather super torches.

Leaving aside the issue that I may go to jail tomorrow, and therefore make this question pointless, what is suggested as to how I mount this bad boy. I do the TDI thing with stages at the moment, so I think that on my right on the belt is a non starter. Is on the right hand side of my tank in a Kent tooling mount a good idea.......or what about in between the twins and the back?

The head itself will be the obvious umbilical/goodman handle combo.

Answers either on here in the usual format, or on a note, which can be baked in a cake and sent to me in jail, so that I can use the ideas when I get released.

[Scuby]

After much moving around, mine is now stuck to the side of my backplate, hanging off the side. Not sure how that arrangement would work with your stages, since its essentially in the same place as it would be on your harness, but higher up and a little further back. I've found it the best compromise between having it in a nice place and being easy to kit up (it always pulled my harness down as I was trying to get it on, so ended up twisted and stuck behind me).

David

[stewbie]

Luck with the case mate - we seem to be losing cops at a fair old rate in my force at the minute.

I've gone down the route of using a pony mount attached to a camband on the cylinder.

I think this would work equally well on twins - just thread the mount on an old camband - and there you go.

Only drawback is that you lose the ability to wrap the long hose under the cannister DIR style - but you don't want to do that anyway!

[rbgreenwood]

Like Stewbie I've gone with buying a pony strap that is attached to my cam band. To begin with I made a handle from zip ties (two around the battery and one between the others to form a handle, that I put my cam band through (just in case). But the pony strap seem to hold in very securely anyway.

Just for reference I spoke with them today and they are working on a pouch for the battery that can either be attached to a band (tank, weight) and also has two eyes at the top and bottom for clipping on somewhere. PM me if you'd like to see the photo they sent.

Rob

[The Purist]

If 'the TDI thing' means bilateral stages then there's still no reason why you can't have the torch mounted on the rhs waist belt. Either use a webbing/bungee loop that will just slide over the rhs waist d-ring and thread the torch on or use a fastex type clip (side squeeze not press release) to fix the torch over the waist band.

Either way the stage clipped to the RHS waist ring keeps it tucked out of the way but still easily reachable - with no extra sticky out bits from the rest of your kit.

[Captain Deco]

Originally Posted by The Purist

If 'the TDI thing' means bilateral stages then there's still no reason why you can't have the torch mounted on the rhs waist belt. Either use a webbing/bungee loop that will just slide over the rhs waist d-ring and thread the torch on or use a fastex type clip (side squeeze not press release) to fix the torch over the waist band.

Either way the stage clipped to the RHS waist ring keeps it tucked out of the way but still easily reachable - with no extra sticky out bits from the rest of your kit.

I am liking the sound of this idea, but having diificulty picturing the kit required to do it, or the method. Do you have pics of a similar mounting? Or.......can you describe it for me in such a way that my simple brain can get hold of it.....

[Woz]

[The Purist]

Originally Posted by scubajay

I am liking the sound of this idea, but having diificulty picturing the kit required to do it, or the method. Do you have pics of a similar mounting? Or.......can you describe it for me in such a way that my simple brain can get hold of it.....

OK, no pix of my own so pls forgive the Holycon pic :-



the 'H' is on a tight piece of webbing that just slides over the belt. Your options are to use a slightly longer piece of webbing which will then let the torch slide over the RHS D-ring, or use the same setup but 2 v short pieces of webbing with a Fastex clip roundabout where the H is so you can jsut clip the torch in place rather than slide it over the D-ring. The DIR types use (or used to anyway) a weightbelt clip to hold the torch back out of the way, but if your RHS D-ring is at the rear of the waist belt then it does the same sort of job - especially with a stage clipped to it

The old arguments about the torch being ditchable weight are irrelevant with modern battery technology, and if you do manage to snag something on the canister (which would be impressive with a stage in the way) you can still get it off if your really need to.

Another trick is to tuck the light cable under the top snoopy loop/bungee (whetevr holds the reg in place) on the RHS stage when you're kitting up as that then keeps the cable neatly out of the way and it's easily accessible when you want to deploy the light (assuming the light head is clipped to your RHS chest D ring)

[Captain Deco]

Excellent. That solves the mounting problems. I will be trying the theory out when I save the lot up. I am nearly there.....can't wait for my Solus light!!!

[mattler]

Originally Posted by scubajay

I am liking the sound of this idea, but having diificulty picturing the kit required to do it, or the method. Do you have pics of a similar mounting? Or.......can you describe it for me in such a way that my simple brain can get hold of it.....

Why don`t you try and imagine it another way. When you go off on your merry travels to purchase this unit, take a u-turn then haed towards Lumb Bro`s we they will greet you and sell you a nice Greenforce F2/Compact 100. Then all your prayers will have been answered in one torch!!
Hope this helps