Latex Seal Drygloves Question

[stabjacket]

Hi Guys,

Im thinking about trying some drygloves (specifically the ones with latex seals not ring systems), as at the moment my fingers are the only part of me that gets cold.

I am currently using posiedon 5mm mitts (although they are starting to get holes in the fingers).

The question I have regarding drygloves is how put them on...

I have never seen anyone using them and was wondering if someone could draw me a diagram to show how the seal sits on the drysuit seal.

Im wondering whether you just stick your hand in and push the seal in the glove, if that makes any sense.

Thanks

~Shaun

[neilh]

Originally Posted by stabjacket

I have never seen anyone using them and was wondering if someone could draw me a diagram to show how the seal sits on the drysuit seal.

I'm no artist so any diagram I draw would just confuse you further

However what you do is put your drysuit on as normal[1] and then put a length of bungee under the wrist seal. This is just to allow the gas in your suit to migrate in and out of the gloves to equalise them and stop them compressing completely onto your hands on descent or ballooning up on ascent. Using bungee means that if you hole a glove the water will only wick into your drysuit and not just flood in.

You then put the dryglove on and adjust the latex seal on the dryglove so that it overlaps the wrist seal and both seals are flat. If you don't have them flat then they'll leak. This step is actually not too hard to do, but is quite tricky to describe!!

[1] an alternative if you're using a thin liner glove is to put those on first, then your drysuit. The liner glove then provides the path for the gas to migrate under the wrist seal as well as ensuring that any leaks will only wick into your suit.

[String]

I had a 100% failure rate with my latex dry gloves. First one on always dry, trying to fit second one and get it to seal always leaked.

[neilh]

Originally Posted by String

I had a 100% failure rate with my latex dry gloves. First one on always dry, trying to fit second one and get it to seal always leaked.

I had a 99.9% success rate

The 0.1% failure was when first trying them and before some kind soul showed me the knack to putting them on!

[Ricky2703]

I had a 50/50 sucess rate.
Left hand dry Right hand wet
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[neilh]

Did you put the right glove on?

[stabjacket]

Hmm, I sort of get what you mean,

does the seal fold in on itself? sort of like a neoprene neck seal?

or does it just go straight over the top of the drysuit seal?

Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Shaun

[Ricky2703]

Originally Posted by neilh

Did you put the right glove on?

[Keiron]

Straight over the top as Neil says. They are a art to get on but after a few times it's dead easy to be honest. You'll probably end up migrating to rings eventually just to make life even easier, but my latex seal gloves did me for a decent amount of time.

[Ricky2703]

I placed the seal over my dry suit seal (latex on Latex) but always found it awkward to get the second seal laying flat.
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