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The diving Badger
01-09-2008, 19:49
Hi people, I am looking for weights to fit weight belt not intergrated, anyone out there looking to sell and soon, will travel around south to collect etc.
Thx in advance

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The diving Badger
05-09-2008, 13:53
Just took the plunge and spent a few hundred quid on weights, dam, the initial spend is big on diving isnt it, someone please tell me it gets better lol.

All the best

Badger
Nigel Hewitt
05-09-2008, 13:56
Just took the plunge and spent a few hundred quid on weights, dam, the initial spend is big on diving isnt it, someone please tell me it gets better lol.We could but we'd be lying.
Matt Smith
05-09-2008, 15:26
.......the initial spend is big on diving isnt it, someone please tell me it gets better lol.......
Just acquired a vgc s/h portable Bauer compressor.....a give away at £1000.

........and then oil,filters,maintenance......oh and then there's going diving too! :eek:
PeteM
05-09-2008, 16:53
Just took the plunge and spent a few hundred quid on weights, dam, the initial spend is big on diving isnt it, someone please tell me it gets better lol.

All the best

Badger

I remember being told in a shop "once you have your BC, regulator, suit and a tank that is about it, from then on you only need air"

Currently I am on 2 BCD's, 5 regs, three suits and 7 tanks. Will almost certainly buy another two reg, suit and at least two tanks in the next six months. And I now expect to spend anything up to £100 on gas for a days diving.

So sorry no it does not get better
Yazzyfooty
05-09-2008, 18:12
Just took the plunge and spent a few hundred quid on weights, dam, the initial spend is big on diving isnt it, someone please tell me it gets better lol.

All the best

Badger

How much weight did you need and buy?? I was told once you bought your kit thats the expense over with apart from air and fuel, but I was never told that your diving evolves and with that your kit may change :eek:

I tend to look out for 2nd hand stuff nw as peopel tend to buy and give up quickly bargains to be had!
bythesea
05-09-2008, 18:18
Just took the plunge and spent a few hundred quid on weights, dam, the initial spend is big on diving isnt it, someone please tell me it gets better lol.

All the best

Badger

As Yazzy said...how much weight did you buy?!?! think you were ripped at a few hundred quid.... would have helped if you had said where abouts you live..if it is Devon I would have made the weights for you for the price of the lead and a cpl of beers
Yazzyfooty
05-09-2008, 22:03
Athink you were ripped at a few hundred quid.... would have helped if you had said where abouts you live..if it is Devon I would have made the weights for you for the price of the lead and a cpl of beers

Go on make him feel good ! lol
Razza
05-09-2008, 22:50
As Yazzy said...how much weight did you buy?!?! think you were ripped at a few hundred quid.... would have helped if you had said where abouts you live..if it is Devon I would have made the weights for you for the price of the lead and a cpl of beers
Lead pah! the man doesn't want to buy more kit later, he's gone straight for gold!
The diving Badger
06-09-2008, 11:53
I had to buy 24kgs, no im not 3 stone, i brought 12 for my buddy.
I also forgot to put on there, I brought a SMB and reel and also a scbapro pouch belt, lol.
Now im thinking as im going for my first dive tomorrow off the south coast i will need to get a shorty cos i may get cold, add to that a rash and maybe a camera i might just spend another 3-4 hundred quid today. lol happy days, just aswell i got a tax rebate,
Thanks for your replies people

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bythesea
06-09-2008, 12:44
I had to buy 24kgs, no im not 3 stone, i brought 12 for my buddy.
I also forgot to put on there, I brought a SMB and reel and also a scbapro pouch belt, lol.
Now im thinking as im going for my first dive tomorrow off the south coast i will need to get a shorty cos i may get cold, add to that a rash and maybe a camera i might just spend another 3-4 hundred quid today. lol happy days, just aswell i got a tax rebate,
Thanks for your replies people

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Think you might need more than a shorty! Forget the camera, buy a decent suit... dry suit that is!
Nigel Hewitt
06-09-2008, 12:54
Currently I am on 2 BCD's, 5 regs, three suits and 7 tanks. Will almost certainly buy another two reg, suit and at least two tanks in the next six months. And I now expect to spend anything up to £100 on gas for a days diving.Wimp. I'm just waiting for the bill on my third rebreather.

In theory that makes my gas cheaper than yours but it doesn't seem to make my diving cheaper.
PeteM
06-09-2008, 17:10
Wimp. I'm just waiting for the bill on my third rebreather.

In theory that makes my gas cheaper than yours but it doesn't seem to make my diving cheaper.

Yes but you have got an insatiable kit fetish :D
Nigel Hewitt
06-09-2008, 18:31
Yes but you have got an insatiable kit fetish :DSo??
The diving Badger
06-09-2008, 21:32
I did think about a dry suit i must admit but this is my first sea dive lol. so now i have a complex and will be looking out for other more experianced divers in dry suits laughing at me in my wet suit, ahhh balls im gonna give it up before i even start lol.
Thx guys !!!!
Uberloin
10-09-2008, 01:01
As Yazzy said...how much weight did you buy?!?! think you were ripped at a few hundred quid.... would have helped if you had said where abouts you live..if it is Devon I would have made the weights for you for the price of the lead and a cpl of beers

I really think so! you don't put the weight belt of ont he boat and bring it down with you!:D

I know lead is getting dear, but crikey, i'd expect to pay a tenner second hand for a small piles of 2kg weights and maybe a tenner for a top notch belt with a pint included.