New Sidemount harness.

[FW]

...If you can figure out how to install a buoyancy device please post the picture and instructions...

Check post #12. I use a (heavy duty) OW jacket style BCD. I remove all the tank holder stuff, weight pockets, and harness. Then I run the sidemount harness through all the belt loops in the jacket.

[Greenwood_60]

SMS-100 wing
Square/Triangle Ring Harness
Armadillo Butt Plate
Edd Old School Bungees

[NEON]

SMS-100 wing
Square/Triangle Ring Harness
Armadillo Butt Plate
Edd Old School Bungees

Yea-a-a-h... Looks like a lot like a school-pack full of textbooks - bulk-wise. Plenty of stuff to get hanged on in small passage too.

[Greenwood_60]

Part of that is because she is about 5'3... I also slid the waist tri-glide further around which took a lot of the puff away.

[phillip1]

This makes the Nomad look like a Razor...

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Yes, there is a lot to it. This one and the armadillo are both over-engineered, based primarily on modifying backmount harness/wing logic, and sized to fit navy seal candidates. But the hollis sms 100 is the most trim-stable out of the box sm I've ever experienced. I made no modifications to mine at all and three or four others have used it with no complaints. I have not been in real small passage, but most of what we have is small (3 feet to 10 feet floor to ceiling and with a couple of feet of viz we tend to hug the floor). and it will carry many stages.

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[mddolson]

Well, I have.

I am using the original Razor and have attached a Dive Rite Trek Wing to it.

It is attached over the top of the harness, so the straps don't squeeze down on the wing and trap gas. The top of the wing is attached to the metal shoulder plate and the bottom of the wing is held on by zip-ties and a bolt and nut just above the lower backplate.

To prevent the wing from floating up I have a bungee run across my chest on the top and on the bottom the edges with the tabs on them align nicely with the secondary D rings that are normally used to attach floating aluminum tanks to.

The biggest tanks I used this with are LP 85s.

I have tried a multitude of configurations, straps over and under, harness looped through parts of the wing, wing under harness... and this one seems to work best.

Just the harness and the wing, no padding, no butt plate, no clutter, I like to keep it minimalistic.

Nicely done.

Mike D (transitioning to sidemount)

[loquat149]

Boy, Eric H's no-mount harness looks a lot like the razor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLevOj4RGg at 3:39 mm:ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eygcPJKqDdA at 3:07 mm:ss



BTW, what happens to the video the NACD records during its annual seminar? I wouldn't mind seeing Eric's talk again.

Dave

[NEON]

Boy, Eric H's no-mount harness looks a lot like the razor:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLevOj4RGg at 3:39 mm:ss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eygcPJKqDdA at 3:07 mm:ss



BTW, what happens to the video the NACD records during its annual seminar? I wouldn't mind seeing Eric's talk again.

Dave

As much a Razor as the Dragon harness... Thanks for the links though!

At least now I know why the caves there look like they do. Pretty barbaric technique... I don't know about "crunches" and "pushes' but the cave would definitely scar, even after a single such visit. Rather self-serving if you ask me - visit a pristine place and ruin it forever in the process.

[FW]

At least now I know why the caves there look like they do. Pretty barbaric technique... I don't know about "crunches" and "pushes' but the cave would definitely scar, even after a single such visit. Rather self-serving if you ask me - visit a pristine place and ruin it forever in the process.

I suppose nobody in a Razor ever went into a tight place?