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colbro
25-05-2011, 13:20
This is not the normal thing i do , but have decided to join the BSAC forum to say Hello and to ask " HAS ANYONE GOT A CYLINDER POST FOR AN EMERGENCY CYLINDER THAT CAN BE FITTED TO A NORTHERN DIVER GAURDIAN BCD MK 1 "? , if i get any replies to that i will have faith in Forums.

Please dont suggest getting in touch with NORTHERN DIVER i have already done that and they are keeping an eye out for me , but the posts are as rare as ROCKING HORSE POOH!. :D
PeteM
25-05-2011, 14:07
This is not the normal thing i do , but have decided to join the BSAC forum to say Hello and to ask " HAS ANYONE GOT A CYLINDER POST FOR AN EMERGENCY CYLINDER THAT CAN BE FITTED TO A NORTHERN DIVER GAURDIAN BCD MK 1 "? , if i get any replies to that i will have faith in Forums.

Please dont suggest getting in touch with NORTHERN DIVER i have already done that and they are keeping an eye out for me , but the posts are as rare as ROCKING HORSE POOH!. :D

Please stop shouting
colbro
25-05-2011, 15:22
Just trying to get my Message across;)
Nigel Hewitt
25-05-2011, 16:50
Just trying to get my Message across;)
Cut my air hoses while I'm diving, blow up my car and run over my dog and I will be offended and probably will never speak to you again.

Leave the Caps Lock on when posting to my forum and I have to kill you.
Sorry. Nothing personal. That just how life is on the web.
SoggyBottoms
25-05-2011, 17:15
tell us, or better show us what this thing is and we may have something tucked away that will suffice............. :-)
bythesea
25-05-2011, 17:32
Hi and welcome.

Can't help with the post but I have a suggestion.

Consign the 'emergency cylinder' to the dustbin of history where it belongs, it is a relic from the days where divers were constantly over weighted and over weight.

Assuming you are diving in a drysuit and BC why would you ever need this device. hey will bend you, they will burst bits of you, they will achieve nothing dropping some weight wont if you feel you really need to rocket out of a situation and your buddy has foxtrotted off. Even in a wetsuit I would be hard pushed to find a reason to have one.
ChristianG
25-05-2011, 17:36
Leave the Caps Lock on when posting to my forum and I have to kill you.
Amen.

Or should that be AMEN? :D

To get back to the subject in hand I, too, have never (but that's not exactly unusual) heard of, sorry Nigel:

A CYLINDER POST FOR AN EMERGENCY CYLINDER THAT CAN BE FITTED TO A NORTHERN DIVER GAURDIAN BCD MK 1
Seems like a further explanation (in LOWER CASE, to cater for the preferred tastes of the likes of Nigel and myself inter alia) might be desirable.
ChristianG
25-05-2011, 17:43
it is a relic from the days where divers were constantly over weighted and over weight.
I thoroughly resemble that remark! ;) I'll have you know that I am 188cm and (currently, trying to eke it up) around 86kg. I'm also of an age where your other comment stands in stark outline. :D
Mike Halligan
25-05-2011, 19:35
Ok, setting aside convention and personal preference yet answering the OP, I do recognise what he is writing about. I recall that the Guardian Mk1 made provision for a cylinder using the same system as Buddy. So ............

1 Only if you're desperate to do it and fully trained and utterly self-aware;
2 And if someone in the club has a cylinder and Buddy pillar;
3 Then you could perhaps try things out on dry land;
4 But I really cannot see why.

I must admit that I have an old Commando with suicide bottle but now I've a new Commando TD40 without. The new one is the best BCD I have ever used, at all and in every way, somewhat better than the old and very significantly better than Mares, Scubapro and Guardians Mk 1 & 2, all of which I have used quite a lot.

Hope this helps, and you're welcome even if you did shout. :cool:
SoggyBottoms
25-05-2011, 20:26
if you want the best advice - ditch the BCD and get a wing

(awaits incoming) :D
colbro
01-08-2011, 10:47
Well , i have heard enough , seems like some of you guys dont like the Emergency Bottle .
I didnt ask your opinion , as quite frankly since the early 1990s when some of us were trained to use the Emergency Cylinders i have had one on a Jacket.
The question was does anyone have a Cylinder post?.
The search is over , i have now got one.
Also the reason i do not have a wing is :- i can see no reason for one other than with a twin set , personally i have a screwed up Back and cannot carry a Twinset , Maybe though if i get the urge i will go sidemount.
Thanks for your help and comments.