Frustrated with OMS
I have always had an OMS wing, I don’t really want to change but I am getting a little frustrated with them. I bought my wing in about 99 or 2000 can’t remember when, I bought it with the IQ pack which I find extremely comfortable. Last year I decided I didn’t like the integrated pockets on the IQ pack and changed it for a comfort harness, which is probably very comfy if you don’t have a chest but I found it was very uncomfortable under the arms. Luckily I was able to sell that quite quickly and bought one of the newer IQ packs which didn’t have the pockets.
What I find annoying about it though is the holes in the IQpack don’t line up properly with the holes in the backplate and it is a struggle to get them to match up. For some reason this wasn’t as much of a problem with the SDS latching system but I have recently changed to a bigger twinset and it is becoming frustrating. The other week I bought a stainless steel backplate to replace the aluminium one, I picked it up from Jack and we tried it on the wing and twins, it took a bit of forcing to get it in what we thought was the right place we actually had to remove the eyelets from the IQpack so the hole would stretch to the right position, I don’t really like cutting or altering kit. When I dived with it on our Salcombe trip I realised that although I have always used the top holes we had positioned the set on the bottom set, this made the set sit too low down and I was a little uncomfortable.
Although I don’t like cutting and altering kit I don’t seem to have a choice, but what I don’t understand is why OMS haven’t worked this out surely it can’t be difficult to make kit so it lines up will all elements.
Hi Fi,
I assume its a combro plate you have, I had to stretch my wing to fit, in the end I took the plate to a local engineering firm and had them made bigger, I would do that before touching the pack or wing.
Safe diving,
Steve
Comment by Steve S | June 22, 2006