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From: "David Strike" <[log in to unmask]>

> On Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:35 PM, Mike Wallace wrote:
>
> > How a pic of it somewhere when you get a chance Amigo... Sound like a
> great
> > find.....
>
> I'll take a few when I've cleaned it up and 'prettified' it, scan them and
> post them through!  :-)

Cool. Sounds like an interesting machine. I might get a chance to gaze at a
Russian built unit this weekend if Joe gets back in town from Florida. Not
sure what he has but he says it's only been dived once and never dropped...
:-)


>
> > I added a "new" toy to my goodies the other day too. Got a brand new old
> > Scubapro wrist mount capillary depth gauge/compass that had never seen
the
> > water. It had been sitting on the back shelf in a now defunct dive
shop...
>
> There's some good 'stuff' out there!  Actually I've got a few of the
> 'whatever-happened-to-that-idea' gizmo's sitting in the 'museum' (garage!)
> :-)

There were some good ole things that still should be useful today. Ya just
got to look around a bit! :-)


>
> I still think one of the most useless of all was something that I found
> years ago.  It was a little plastic clip on container that held three
small
> plastic balls, one yellow; one green and one that was half-and-half.
> According to what I heard at the time, the diver clipped the container
> somewhere on the harness.  When it was time to ascend, the user would
> release one of the balls that supposedly ascended at the rate of 1 ft per
> second!  (The same speed, apparently, as the small exhaust bubbles.)  I
> imagine that the other two were as back-ups! :-)

Kinda like the old bend o matic computer!

Mike