Halcyon

The Halcyon Eclipse is an amazing wing to dive with, but for us cold water divers with thick gloves, the little string on the dump valve is way too hard to get a grip on under water. It doesn’t come with any knobs or any other help for catching it, since that’s apparently violating the DIR philosophy. On top of that, my dump valve had so sharp edges it cut through the string after 20 or so dives.

The solution is very simple- you just need a dremel and a new, thicker string. The construct of the valve is very simple, only four parts in total. Plus the string.

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Un-screw the cover, use the dremel to widen the space for the new string, be sure to make the edges smooth.

Pry off the rubber seal, remove the string, drill a bigger hole, then make a good knot on the new string to make it stay where it should. I used a lighter to fasten the knot, and to get it small enough to fit under the rubber seal.

Now all there is to do is to put the rubber seal back in place, make sure the knot isn’t putting it out of place.

And then get the valve back together.

In case you forgot, here’s how it’s supposed to be:

And then you should be done! And it will probably look something like this:

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