Posts by Dan

  • DIY PVC knife sheath

    I did ask for PVC but I'll take anything that can be worked like that. I don't remember Home Depot having anything but white and Grey. I think in the case of your funky shaped knife it may be a problem but for a stiletto type blade you'd have to pound real hard for the plastic to grab the serration.

  • DIY PVC knife sheath

    A good post by jfjf on SB following Griswold's post on reshaping the Riffe knife sheath. I'll spare the instructions as anyone can probably do a nicer job of it but the idea is solid IMO. Just heat the PVC with a heat gun and flatten it, you can do it with the knife inside so it molds perfectly around it. I'll post my own pics when I do it. Are there black PVC pipes?




  • Pelaj

    Pelaj Introduces: Bullet floats <img src= " class="smiley" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x" height="23" width="23" loading="eager" data-tooltip="biggrin" aria-label="biggrin">

    Quote from spearmax

    Hi Matt,

    What are the dimensions of the float in inches (not mm)?

    Looks good, Tony


    Go to boaters world and measure them. I just bought three today, $4 each.

  • Pressurizing pneumatic

    Funny story; My first gun was a pneumatic, Cyrano 970, I didn't know anything about it or any other gun. I took it to Cuba and tried to load it for the first time in my living room. I didn't know the force that has to be used and it appeared to me that it wasn't going in no matter how hard I tried. I took a closer look at the muzzle and saw something white in there (the piston) but I didn't know what it was and assumed it was some packaging that needed to be removed before using the gun. I saw that the muzzle had a surface on the front for a wrench and was happy when it started to turn rather easily. I decided to take out the white piece so I could use the gun. I kept unscrewing the muzzle, you guys are already imagining what happened, fortunately the gun was pointing away from me and down.


    On the final turn of the wrench the muzzle blew off the gun. It and the piston ricochet off the walls a few times and when the dust settled I felt a burning on my arm. The oil shot out of the gun onto my arm so hard that it burned a red area on it. The rest of the oil hit the floor and cleaned the impact area so efficiently that it had a different color for the rest of my time there.


    After the pain subsided my biggest worry was that I'm not going to be able to use the gun. I found the piston under the couch and put it all back together and figured out what the pump was for. I also knew I needed oil. I asked around and you can imagine that in Cuba there isn't much selection. I even made an international call at like $2 a minute to Mares USA. They couldn't tell me what oil to use :S I didn't know any Cuban spearos at the time so I just settled on the finest oil I could find. I had a tailor friend and he gave me some sewing machine oil which I sucked up with the pump and pumped into the gun. The gun worked fine for the next few years until I sold it.

  • Pressurizing pneumatic

    Quote from seaweed

    I'm not paying anyone to pressurize my gun. I would think that is free, if not then I wont do it.

    Think about it, the only place that would have the correct fitting and pressure would be a dive shop dedicated for this sort of thing. I can only think of Scubas world and FF. Mike was canvassing on SB a while back offering a free gun to someone who'd give him a LEAD to where to buy the fitting. You think he would have been so generous if he were to give fills away? I bought an inner barrel from Scubas world for my cyrano and at the same time asked them for a thimble of oil for the gun, they charged me $10 for it. Think they're throwing away free fills? Your generous nature is clouding your judgement <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">


    I would like to play with the nananameter though.

  • Pressurizing pneumatic

    Quote from seaweed

    As Tinman said, I'm looking fo a complicated solution to a simple problem. I'm curios to know what pressure my gun is at.

    I wasn't referring to measuring. You said you were looking for a place to pressurize the gun and I asked why you can't do it with a pump. Paying someone to do it is not a complicated solution.

  • Miami 09/06/08

    Same here. Yeah fish love Davie, that's been my experience diving with him. He pulls out a good one where others don't. When I ask him "where did you find the fish and what was it doing?" expecting an intricate tale of stalking and and pushing a breath hold to the limits what I get is; It was just sitting in the sand.. I saw him go into the pipe.. He was peeking from under a rock.. :P

  • Miami 09/06/08

    I can't say because that's the first time I've been to that area but I missed on a couple of other small mackerels, a trigger and big YJ. There were lots of small 13" hogs around. The smaller muttons looked disoriented where normally skittish.

  • Miami 09/06/08

    JimCuda, seaweed, Hector and myself went diving on Jim's boat today. Seas were flat, water temperature; rashguards. Now the big question, the viz...




















    A hazy 20' vertical. You could barely make out the shading of the bottom structure in 45' which allowed us to stay on top with the near zero current. This is all we needed to make a day out of what I thought would be a complete failure due to the viz.


    A few fish and lobster were taken, Davie being the big producer with a very nice 10lb Cubera and a big mutton.


    Davie with his snappers, must've been tired after a long day of diving :)



    All of Davie's catch.



    The rest.


  • Spearfishing ethics

    I never used to take pics, now I take too many. I hope there will come a time again when I will take no more. Except a truly exceptional catch maybe.

  • squeal like a PIG !!

    I think Johnny really embraced the American culture <img src= " height="23" srcset="https://spearfishing.world/forum/images/smilies/emojione/1f606@2x.png 2x">