Any plans for a Shearwater Petrel DSS bungee mount?

[JesperS]

Title says it all. The straps supplied with the unit strike me as flimsy.

 

[bamafan]

Are you talking about the bungee strap adapters that come with the Petrel?

 

[Dr. Lecter]

As long as you use a large diameter bungee with a big knot, the fiber-reinforced rubber straps hold up quite well. I'm also not sure how well a Petrel's buttons and raised bolt-heads on the screen would interface with a DSS style mount. Alternatively, I've found thin Kydex strips to work well in place of the rubber strips.

 

[GregSaiz]

After about 100 dives, one of the fiber reinforced rubber strips broke at the bungee hole. Dr. Lecter, great suggestion, I'm going to replace the rubber straps with Kydex.

 

[cool_hardware52]

Title says it all. The straps supplied with the unit strike me as flimsy.

No current plans.

Tobin

 

[buddhasummer]

No current plans.

Tobin

Is that because of the expense involved in making mold/tooling? I imagine you'd sell a lot but I guess number of people with Petrels relatively speaking is not that high.

 

[Tamas]

Everyone in my group dives with one.....I am sure a lot would be sold.

 

[j2s]

Velcro.....

 

[Reku]

Velcro.....

Velcro is hard to manage underwater honestly. I would not use velcro.

 

[JohnnyC]

Are people having problems with the elastic bands? I can't say I've ever had an issue with them and I've had a Petrel and 3 Predators. I ran bungee on the Petrel once, but I just threaded it through the strap holes. I don't think Tobin needs to go and make a whole mount for it. No need to over-engineer what's already functional.