Drysuit Storage - how do you keep yours?

[incapete]

Since the weather is getting colder and the club boats have finished until next year it's time to pack up the dive gear for a couple of months until probably March next year

So I'm interested in how YDers store their drysuits -

- hanging up
- by their feet (my normal storage during the season)
- by a hanger/upright

- folded/rolled up in it's bag

- for either of the above, is the zip open or closed?

Is there any other maintainance, checks or precautionary measures you do to help ensure the suit starts the next season in good shape?

[Buoyant Babe]

I dry mine hanging up with the zip open and the zip cover closed. Then I fold it loosely and place it in my kit box.

Originally Posted by incapete

Is there any other maintainance, checks or precautionary measures you do to help ensure the suit starts the next season in good shape?

Yes, don't stop diving in the winter you wuss! Even if it's a puddle jump you can still keep your hand in

[Scuttler]

I used to do what O'Three told me to.....on a drysuit hanger zipped up

bu now I'm inclined to hang it over a length of drain pipe (at the waist) with the zip closed as I think there will be less stress on the zip

[nickb]

Hanging on a coat hanger, in my garage, with the zip almost closed.

[hilrosepaul]

FWIW I dry mine out thoroughly by hanging by its feet with the zip open, then zip it up and lubricate the zip by using some of that Beaver gunk (Much better than Beeswax IMO) before folding it loosely and placing it in its bag until next time.

SWMBO doesn't appreciate it hanging around any longer than necessary, even in the Garage

Cue loads of people telling me I'm doing it wrong

[Arfie]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Yes, don't stop diving in the winter you wuss! Even if it's a puddle jump you can still keep your hand in

My thoughts exactly, if you aren't diving in winter, sell the drysuit and get a semidry, much easier to maintain and cheaper As you've got the drysuit, don't be a pussy and get out there and use it There is the ironing in January, Freeze your nuts off in Feb (probably) and there will probably be something going off in December.

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

I dry mine hanging up with the zip open and the zip cover closed. Then I fold it loosely and place it in my kit box.

I do the same, but when dry I roll it and pack it in the bag it came in with the main zip fully open and the cover zip closed.

Arfie

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by hilrosepaul

SWMBO doesn't appreciate it hanging around any longer than necessary, even in the Garage

Mr Helen has learnt not to complain about mine, on account that I don't complain about the dead pheasants he has hanging in his side of the garage


They taste better than my drysuit though...

[Mike Phillipson]

Originally Posted by Arfie

but when dry I roll it and pack it in the bag it came in with the main zip fully open and the cover zip closed.

Arfie

Yup.. that's the instruction I had from O'three, rolled up in the bad with the zip open..

Mike

[scuba g]

Putting it away! I was only diving yesterday with some rescue students in 4 degree water and -2 degree surface temp! We had to call it a day early as icecream headaches where getting common. When the suit gets put away for a few weeks, make sure its totally dry, pop some news paper into the boots to get any moisture out or use vampyre socks, lube zips with beaver lube, talc the seals, I do for both neoprene and laytex, and roll it boots towards the neck, leaving the rear zip flat, fold arms across the suit and into the bag. If you plan a longer storage time (few months, Ya Mary Queens, stopping cause its cold!) Id give the inside a rinse in milton fliud to kill any bacteria.

[Scuba Steve]

i keep mine in its bag in the garage .

i dry it on a hanger or lying over the garden fence . next door is grand about it a he in the club as well