saxplayer:
I'm not sure why other then in a purist sense why retrofitting my transplate is a bad idea.
Everyone that is pushing a NEW SM system and only a SM system would go without the plates. however I wanted to know if the buttplate would work as a retrofit, because I have a fully operational transplate set up now. I am not planning on moving to SM exclusively, but only when I would have used doubles, which is a minority of the diving I do.
Again I am not looking at putting a Nomad UNDER a plate, but just use the buttplate instead of my waist D-Rings to hook bottles to. The wing is already bungeed to prevent wrapping.
not sure what you mean by "becoming a ratchet"? Lots of things will get me killed, however the rest of the sentence only makes some sense if you comparing a nomad with a plate on top of it (?) but I am not going to be using the nomad. As far as cost go, why would i want to spend in excess of $500 for a new set up when the one I have works well and for $109 I can (maybe) add the buttplate. Even the OP already owned a transpac is just looking at retrofitting it.