I love dry-gloves!

Just a new bit of the "DSMB inflate in cold water - purging" thread. Was at
Stoney today, and on a bit of a spur of the moment thing got some
dry-gloves, and I have to say they are lovely! Hands were fine through the
dive, although they were only short (30mins) hands were only just starting
to feel even a little bit cold. Could still do everything fine, so think
i've probably solved my cold-water problem! :O)

I'd highly recommend them - the only problem I had was I got the ones with
rings, but because of the way the seals work on my drysuit they are designed
to fold back on themself and sort of double up, which basically means the
sleeve is longer than normal and so the gloves fall off the end of my
fingers out of the water. In the water they're fine though, and I think
i'll have to look into getting the seals removed, sleeves shortened, and
seals put back on again - bit of a pain but they've always been too long
anyway, just never had much of a motivation to do it before.
And the dry-gloves erven managed to warm up my hands after they got
freezing. Long story, but basically doing a Dive Leader dive where the
instructor was acting as a novice, decided to be over-keen and jump in
without fins, me not having any gloves on yet had no choice but to go in
after him, freezing in the process! Luckily I put the dry gloves on and I
soon warmed up and was fine throughout the dive, so i'm impressed!

Anyone else has cold hands, they're highly recommended. Thanks for all the
advice about fixing the cause (cold) rather than getting new ways of
inflating the DSMB. Of course I will still end up with a DSMBi sometime in
the future, but its not now a priority.

Cheers! Happy (warm) diving!

David

> From: "David Walker" <wbsdavenews@hotmail.com>
> Organization: University of Warwick, UK
> Newsgroups: uk.rec.scuba
> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:12:24 -0000
> Subject: I love dry-gloves!

> I'd highly recommend them - the only problem I had was I got the ones with
> rings, but because of the way the seals work on my drysuit they are designed
> to fold back on themself and sort of double up, which basically means the
> sleeve is longer than normal and so the gloves fall off the end of my
> fingers out of the water. In the water they're fine though, and I think
> i'll have to look into getting the seals removed, sleeves shortened, and
> seals put back on again - bit of a pain but they've always been too long
> anyway, just never had much of a motivation to do it before.

Try getting a couple of the velcro straps ( the ones that fold back on
themselves - like long watch straps ) put these around the glove at the
wrist. It keeps the glove in position and stops it being pushed down.

I use the gauntlet type of dryglove (helios) and this is what I use to stop
the glove moving down my hand, works perfectly.

Regards, Ian.

"David Walker" <wbsdavenews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:buu91i$ie6$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk...
> Just a new bit of the "DSMB inflate in cold water - purging" thread. Was
at
> Stoney today, and on a bit of a spur of the moment thing got some
> dry-gloves, and I have to say they are lovely!

The question is: What about indurance? How long will it be 'til they leak
and you need to buy new drygloves?

Alun Harford

> The question is: What about indurance? How long will it be
> 'til they leak and you need to buy new drygloves?

At £2.50 for a replacement pair of "Nordic Blue" gloves (plus the
requirement for access to someone with strong fingers to fit them to the
rings), it's not that big a consideration. (see www.baconsdozen.co.uk for
replacement gloves)

FWIW, I destroyed one pair on the Tabarka, have had another glove damaged on
something else (?the Hood) but was able to effect a temporary repair with
Aquasure...that worked so well that it was some months before I got round to
replacing the glove and had a glove damaged when I drove over it.

I've had drygloves since early 2001.

I love them.

Iain

> > The question is: What about indurance? How long will it be
> > 'til they leak and you need to buy new drygloves?

I was planning on not poking my hands into too many sharp holes - i've never
had anything cut or puncture my wetsuit gloves in the past. If I was doing
a dive where for some reason i'd be expecting to touch lots of very sharp
objects (like a particularly tight and sharp-edged wreck) then I'd wear the
wet gloves instead.

> At £2.50 for a replacement pair of "Nordic Blue" gloves (plus the
> requirement for access to someone with strong fingers to fit them to the
> rings), it's not that big a consideration. (see www.baconsdozen.co.uk for
> replacement gloves)

Ooooh, i'll remember that page! Replacements could be very useful! When
its £2.50 for a glove, makes me wonder why I payed an extra £42.50 for a
couple of plastic rings... :O\
And yeah, fitting them is a nightmare! I shortened the wrist bit of my
glove, took forever - trying to get an o-ring, hidden inside fluffy padded
material to go over something twice the diameter of that o-ring is nigh-on
impossible first time... although after the 4th or 5th time we were getting
quite good (its a 2 person job), could probably do it quite quickly now!
:O)

David

> And yeah, fitting them is a nightmare! I shortened the wrist
> bit of my glove, took forever - trying to get an o-ring,
> hidden inside fluffy padded material to go over something
> twice the diameter of that o-ring is nigh-on impossible first
> time... although after the 4th or 5th time we were getting
> quite good (its a 2 person job), could probably do it quite
> quickly now!

Clearly more practice is needed (or stronger fingers!) I can do them on my
own with relative ease.

Iain

> > And yeah, fitting them is a nightmare! I shortened the wrist
> > bit of my glove, took forever - trying to get an o-ring,
> > hidden inside fluffy padded material to go over something
> > twice the diameter of that o-ring is nigh-on impossible first
> > time... although after the 4th or 5th time we were getting
> > quite good (its a 2 person job), could probably do it quite
> > quickly now!
>
> Clearly more practice is needed (or stronger fingers!) I can do them on my
> own with relative ease.

I wouldn't have been tooo hard, if you didn't have to keep the o-ring in a
fold of fluffy material while holding part already on the ring and pulling
the o-ring with the rest of the glove over the other half... made even
harder by me needing to shorten my gloves, which made the bit where the fold
was even more fluffy. Maybe i'll find they leak and have to do them again
anyway - lol :O\

David