blue steel valve for sidemount. Blanking plugs?

[Candiru]

I've got a new set of faber lp 85 for a sidemount setup. They came with left and right hand blue steel valves. They have burst disks installed in them. Is there a way to install blanking plugs in order to get some extra length for the bungees to wrap around?

 

[rongoodman]

You might need to replace them with these.

 

[Superlyte27]

Candiru, there is no way to do what you are asking with those valves.

 

[Candiru]

Okay, I see that you can't add a blanking plug to get extra length. My next question is how important is the extra length in order to get the bungee around it.

 

[Captain Bil]

I have some of those valves. I orient the tanks so that the valve handles are out and I wrap the bungees around them. No problem.

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[Superlyte27]

I do the same thing Bill does. It is very rare for a properly fitting bungee to slip out.

 

[Candiru]

So the valve handles are lateral and the the burst plugs are medial?

 

[Captain Bil]

Off the top of my head, I can't remember where the burst plugs are. It's irrelevant to the way I do it anyway.

FWIW, I do all my SM tanks the way I described, regardless of the type of valve. I don't think there's another way to do it.

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[Candiru]

So you wrap it around here?

 

[JahJahwarrior]

The way i do it, that would be your right tank. That puts valve down, reg to inside so it's protected, and the bungee will rest about the base of the valve.