Hollis SM-50

[diveconjeff]

.... I added a few other finishing touches. I think its finally finished....

Never heard that before....


Jeff
Diveconjeff@yahoo.com

[Skorpiov]

I lengthened the torso so it worked out better to attach the sides of the wing to the lower part of the chest straps instead of trying to make it fit on the belt. Since I needed a slider here to attach the wing to I went ahead and put a low profile D-ring here.

The buckle on the inside of the back is the strap left long that normally terminates at the upper plate. I can add weights here and they sit in the divit of the spine and you dont even know they're there. They wind up in the perfect spot to center the weight. I added some keepers at the shoulders to keep it from sliding to the plate. If you have this wing, you know what I mean.

I added intertube at any place a strap ends and a couple of other places. They really make the rig hug and prevent slippage. The extra hardware on the back of the crotch strap is coming off. It wound up not being stable enough to confidently stab a heavy steel tank to. Actually the first one wasnt a big issue, it was trying to locate the clipoff location when you started fishing with the second tank because your first heavy steel relocated it about 6 inches. Hence the reason for the rebuild, the yet untried tech butt plate..

Inflated its no more than 4 inches. Swims extremely well with no drag whatsoever. I like it. What do you think?


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