Do you have a dive reel in your shopping cart or want to send us your reel? Add this service to upgrade your dive reel with one of our popular high-technology lines. We will remove the existing line (if any) from the selected reel on your order and reload the reel using your choice of our vibrant colors for DGX Hi-Viz or DGX Ultra-Viz™ polyester line as well as Divesoft Polyethersulfone (PES) line.
We will machine strip the existing line from the selected reel on your order.
We will machine reload the reel using your choice of any of our high-technology line.
We use a line counter to measure the amount of line loaded, but also load a little more to account for inaccuracies.
The final price is based on a small fee that depends on the size of the reel body, plus the type and amount of line.
When you select the reel body, you will see our advice for the maximum QTY (length in feet) of line that will completely fill the spool, but without "overloading".
If you wish any pre-existing line to be returned to you, there is small charge for a cardboard spool to collect the stripped line.
Custom manufactured for Dive Gear Express, both our DGX Hi-Viz and DGX Ultra-Viz™ lines are round braided polyester and are engineered high-tech products with exceptional strength, abrasion and UV resistance. The only difference is the DGX Ultra-Viz line includes a retroreflective nylon strand impregnated with tiny glass micro-beads (<100 microns) that makes the already vibrant line even brighter. Similar to the way SOLAS tape works, when light shines on the strand the light retroreflects toward the source of the light, thus further increasing visibility. The technical specification for the diameter of these lines is approximately 1.8 mm which does not fit nicely into the archaic 'twine' size code numbers that might be familiar to long time cave divers. Describing the diameter using size codes, the line falls between #21 and #24. Regardless, the 1.8 mm polyester line in water is stronger than #36 nylon and thinner than #24 nylon so you will be able to load a little extra on the reel.
The Divesoft Polyethersulfone (PES) line has been custom braided for diving applications. . This material is often compared to UHMWPE cordage, such as those from Spectra® or Dyneema®, though PES is slightly stronger than UHMWPE as well being heavier. Unlike UHMWPE, this material is negatively buoyant and holds knots well (its not 'slippery'), but isn't considered spliceable. This line has a little less stretch than nylon #24 but when wet Divesoft tests found a {10 ft | 3 m} length of their PES line to have about {2-4 in |50-100 mm} of stretch when simulating tension to mimic a tie-off. The prominent characteristic of the PES material is the exceptional tenacity; in water it is over five times stronger than polyester with very good abrasion resistance. In archaic twine sizing the 1.6 mm diameter falls between #18 (~ 1.5mm) and #21(~ 1.7mm); thinner but many times stronger than nylon #24, it also maintains it's shape better than nylon and you can load plenty of extra on the reel.
