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DIR Kit questions Agonising over what to buy, ask other divers what they have done and what they have found. Bought something great or new - tell us.
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March 19th, 2008, 01:00 AM
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| New Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Port Philip Bay Australia
Posts: 91
  | Spare Kit Pack G'day. This ones for the gear freaks out there, lol. List the items and how you would carry them in/as your spare kit that you take on the boat/in your car (I know it depends on gear and what sort of diving you plan to do). |
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March 19th, 2008, 10:03 AM
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| New Member  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Dubai
Posts: 460
| Quote: (Originally Posted by davetheshoeman)  G'day. I have this in my tool kit;This ones for the gear freaks out there, lol. List the items and how you would carry them in/as your spare kit that you take on the boat/in your car (I know it depends on gear and what sort of diving you plan to do). 1. Adjustable spanner ( the SS sea spanner is nice but dont get shipped anywhere) 2. O-ring pick 3. In-line adjuster 4. O2 Lube in a syringe 5. Spool with o-rings for pressure gauges. 6. Cable-ties 7. Mouth piece. 8. Spare mask-forget the mask strap. 9. Baby Shampoo-great to use in a mask for defogging and also to wash your hands. 10. Assortment of Orings for lights, hoses,camera and scooter. Forget tank neck o rings. If they go, you cant refill on the boat unless its got a compressor. 11. Bungee chord or shock chord. 12. Cave line. 13. lighter 14. trauma shears 15. Insulation or duck tape. 16. 18watt HID Bulb. 17. Test tube. 18. Leatherman or Gerber multi tool. 19. SOG folding knife with serrated edge ( great for rope). I think that covers it but will check again 
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March 19th, 2008, 11:04 AM
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| GUE Instructor Site Admin  | I posted this a while back: I've just put together a set - in a great box I got from B&Q which has loads of tiny compartments - it carries on to the boat easily. It holds rather a lot.....but was a fun project to put together - and is nowhere near as big as it sounds. Spare wing inflator unit Drysuit inflator unit plus spare hose Si tech drysuit dump Belt buckle Replacement hose for stage - tied Swivels Pressure gauge Two spare mouthpieces Spare mask strap Schraeder tool Set of allen keys (x2) Set screwdriver heads Socket set Needle nose pliers O ring pick 2 adjustable wrenches Scalpels Tie wraps (big and small) Punch Drysuit repair kit Three tubes aquasure Wax Spare wrist and neck seals Seal saver Mask de fogging gunk O2 clean grease Normal grease Reg blanking plugs Spare bolt snaps Triglides Scissors Analysis tape Nitrox/Trimix stickers Waterproof pens Wipe off pens White pen Labels for stages (courtesy of Divesigns - MarkEm on DIRX) O rings - large selection Washers Backplate bolts Trigger pins Volt metre Spare prop blade Pluggable relays Trigger repair kit Spare Gavin O rings Lead lozenges Spare clutch plate Bungy (both sizes) Bundle of cave line Super glue Stage leash Snoopy loops (large and small) Pre tied bungy for light ballast Lighter (windproof) RB spares and maintenance kit Imperial bolts, wing nuts and allen keys O ring picks from Peterbuilt Driver for jubilee clips Spare bulb Test Tube Switch and boot O rings for Light Small spray bottle of baby bath for bubble checks and seal donning Oh and in case it's needed to get the tool kit home - tyre inflator widget
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March 19th, 2008, 11:18 AM
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| GUE  Join Date: May 2006 Location: London
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 | This is the most useful piece of kit I've ever had in my kit box. On a trip back from France a few years ago, we had a dodgy slow leak in one of the tyres and every 100 miles or so we'd need to top it up. We just put this on the end of an argon reg and inflated the tyre with Argon. I got a few confused looks but explained that we were a formula 1 support team and we were using the "special gas" they use to fill F1 racing tyres Quote: (Originally Posted by Clare Gledhill) I posted this a while back: Oh and in case it's needed to get the tool kit home - tyre inflator widget |
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March 19th, 2008, 06:02 PM
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| LCS  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Evidently Chickentown
Posts: 591
| On a boat I take a small bag with some hand tools and a set of o-rings that I might need, a spare reg, some duct tape, a spare timer and acme-instant-snoopy-loop-on-a-roll (gas tight self-amalgamating tape). Diving out of a car then I take my full spares case with just about everything I'll ever need in it (from years of scrounging and stealing). Quote: (Originally Posted by Clare Gledhill) Small spray bottle of baby bath for bubble checks and seal donning Absolutely essential. I am very sad to say that top tip won me an AP mug and a d-ring (they pushed the boat out there) ten years ago when ScubaWorld magazine was still running.
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