Posts by Dan

Very nice. Thanks for posting this.

The range is short so I don't think speed is a big issue, penetration is.

5/16 shaft in a sling worked fine for me.

Different sticks for different chicks

Nate, thanks for the vid. It shows exactly what I meant about the bands floating around and making it a PITA for me to load.

You should call him to make an amendment to the encyclpaedia, Ray Odor is from Florida not California

LOL could be fake but anything's possible.

I've built or used all the styles I'm commenting on.

I've been playing around with band configuration on a new muzzle and revisited an option that I gave up on long ago, and remembered how much I don't like it. Having wasted about 5ft of Speardiver small ID 16mm rubber in the process, hence the frustration.

1. Bands attached to muzzle with wishbones in any configuration, wings, ferrules etc.

I can't stand how the bands flop around when the gun is unloaded. It's more time consuming to grab them and load, they tend to tangle with each other. Another disadvantage is that you lose a lot of band stretch with this system. Measure from one constrictor knot around/through the muzzle to the other side and to the constrictor knot on the other band, that's how much band stretch you lost.

Was the water cold?

I think you misunderstood me. The way I tie bands, using two dowels in my hands to pull the constrictor knot tight, is a sure way, and is fine for a few bands. But if you had to make 50 bands in one day, you'd get tired. So that machine does look like it makes things easier.

If you had to do bands all day long you'd get tired of it.

There are no sketches available from the boat manufacturer? Or is this system of measuring reliable enough so it's not worth the effort to find them? I don't know what a fuel sender is, unless you mean where you pump the gas. If so I don't understand how you can measure through it.

I read a few times about a leaking gas tank replacement. Seems like it's a common problem. I don't understand how boat designers don't take this sort of think into account. Isn't there a better material for a gas tank that will not deteriorate over time?

How do you know where to start cutting?

Scary and expensive ouch! Makes me feel good about my little 13 gallon red gas tank under the seat. Just replaced the 20 year old gas cap :@

Pic of your boat looking pretty?

Beautiful fish. Shabat shalom.

Yes amberjack are strong. Very strong when they get bigger.

Do the Mediterranean amberjack have worms?

What kind of grouper is that?

Nice capture Moshe. What do you call the Amberjack in Israel?

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It's only rated to 100m so not a true dive watch. The only point to this watch would be the depth meter, which apparently doesn't work well.

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As I am a cheapo who doesn't do enough diving to justify an expensive watch, I thought this watch could be useful as a basic rough depth and time indicator. As a watch it's fine, however if I wanted something that was just a watch I'd have bought just a watch, or if I wanted a watch that spewed out random numbers I'd just have bought a calculator watch and periodically mush buttons randomly .

The first day I got the watch I decide to test it in my 1.7m deep pool. Bam, turns out my pool magically grew to 2.9m! And then shrank again on the second dive down 1.6. After that they were within .2m. I could live with that. Easily.

The next inaccuracy was the day afterwards. Let's go for a freedive I said, it'll be fun I said, we can know roughly how deep we go I said.
As soon as I entered the water and was making my way towards the site, the dive mode kicked in. The mode that's only supposed to turn on when you are below 1.5m of water. I was barely below the surface, in all seriousness the watch would have been, at a maximum, 30cm (1 foot for you imperialies) below the surface.
So how do I know how far down I went I hear you ask? Literally no idea is my reply.

On the next day of christmas, my dive watch gave to me a stuck-in button that was faulty. (Read to the tune of 12 days of christmas).
As I'm not a complete cretin, and I like to get my moneys worth out of things, I always rinse off my gear in freshwater after going for a splash in the sea. This watch was no exception, I dunked it in a bowl of freshwater and pressed the buttons. Later that night, as I was dozing off, I checked my watch for the time. And it was blank. Turns out if you hold a button in for a while the screen turns off. This isn't super fantastic if the buttons are prone to sticking when accidentally pressed. Which they are on this watch.

On the plus side I ordered if with Amazons express shipping and it came so much earlier than I was expecting. That's where the extra star comes from!

So in conclusion. If you want an oversized time telling piece that also has the date, a stopwatch and a countdown timer that all work fine unless a button sticks, this is the watch for you. If you want to accurately measure how deep you've been and how long you've been under for, it is probably worth spending a bit more money. I've been trying to learn for so long that usually buying cheap means buying twice, but I love a bargin.
Thanks
Andrew Mortimer

EDIT!
Wow, so I've now had this for 2 months, and, apparently, for the last 24 hours I've been under 3.3metres of water. Honestly, what the s***? Watch is clearly buggered and I'm about to begin the long, arduous and, most likely, unsatisfactory process of getting my money back. Damn you Pyle!

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