Probably another SM tank thread...
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I dive steels - twin Faber 12 litre tanks, I use the taller/slimmer ones. The main reason I started with then was because they were my twinset, which I then split, but based on experience since where I have used both dumpies and talls I prefer the talls for two main reasons.
1 - taller/slimmer tanks sit closer to the side of the body and reduce profile
2 - they also allow more room to move the bottom band up or down to shift the tank weight up or down a bit to allow me to fine tune trim, I can't move a dumpy tank anywhere near as much to position it where I want it.
I dare say there are good reasons to use a dumpy as well
- but I don't for the above reasons.
Dive safe - Phil.
1 - taller/slimmer tanks sit closer to the side of the body and reduce profile
2 - they also allow more room to move the bottom band up or down to shift the tank weight up or down a bit to allow me to fine tune trim, I can't move a dumpy tank anywhere near as much to position it where I want it.
I dare say there are good reasons to use a dumpy as well
- but I don't for the above reasons.Dive safe - Phil.
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Depends upon the dive. I generally dive 3 sets of tanks. LP 50'S , HP 100'S & LP 120'S. I enjoy the lp 50's the most and with a cave fill of 3600 - 3800 they are about 80 cft in a little tank. I really can't tell the difference in my 108's and my 120's when they are in the water except for the gas volume. In short it depends upon your dive.
i'm a little hard of hearing.....did you just say you fill a LP50 to 3800psi ??
Think he did. He said cave fill. So yeah that would be 3500-3800 or so.
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Gawd not another one of these overfilling paranoia threads.
I'll throw my boots on the pile.....longer / thinner, HP 110s/ LP 95s and AL80s.
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i'm not gonna go there. you guys are big boys. you fill your tanks to whatever you and your buddy are comfortable with.
---------- Post added June 15th, 2014 at 05:49 PM ----------
i'd like to try a steel tank similar in shape to the luxfer allum 40's. i have not seen many different varieties of cylinders. is there such a steel tank out there ??
Yep, Faber LP50 steels are about the same size as al40's.
thank you jim. a bit more money but maybe a better investment in the long run. and might work better for SM than the alum luxfer
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