Pony bottles VS stage bottles

[286571455]

I use doubles, stage, and/or Pony depending on the dive.

 

[DeepBound]

A pony bottle is a small bottle usually 30cuft or less and is usually mounted using straps or clips or some other method to the main cylinder (the one that contains the back gas). A stage bottle is completely seperate from the main cylinder and is attached via bolt snaps to the shoulder D-Ring and the Waist D-Ring.

What would you classify a 30cf bottle slung on D-rings? Pony or stage? Is the difference the size or where you carry it?

It's a 13cf pony bottle slung like a stage.
This way I can keep the valve off until needed, and it won't lose it's air. Also it can be handed off to someone and it's less trouble than setting up the tank attachment each time.

 

[Soggy]

What would you classify a 30cf bottle slung on D-rings? Pony or stage? Is the difference the size or where you carry it?

Ack...that's what this whole thread was about

The difference is in how it is used, not how it is carried.

 

[JeffG]

Ack...that's what this whole thread was about

Its a game of whack a mole...LOL

 

[Soggy]

Decompression, stage, pony and argon cylinders: usage and rigging

 

[wedivebc]

Decompression, stage, pony and argon cylinders: usage and rigging

So that is the definitive answer and we should all stop the bickering right?:06:

 

[Soggy]

So that is the definitive answer and we should all stop the bickering right?:06:

More or less.

 

[wedivebc]

More or less.

There is nothing wrong with having a standard. My post was a little tounge-in-cheek but think how much simpler life would be if we could all just come to agreement on some pretty basic terms without splitting hairs down to microscopic levels.

 

[Doc Intrepid]

There is nothing wrong with having a standard. My post was a little tounge-in-cheek but think how much simpler life would be if we could all just come to agreement on some pretty basic terms without splitting hairs down to microscopic levels.

Dreamer!

(John Lennon, "Imagine")

 

[DeepBound]

Ack...that's what this whole thread was about

The difference is in how it is used, not how it is carried.

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Oh, should have read the whole thing instead of answering the initial question in the first post, below the poll.