Planet Ocean Rubber Strap Install

[Bomba]

Hi guys,

I'm having a hell of a time trying to install my rubber straps onto my 45.5mm Planet Oceans. I swear I was about to give up and pitch the straps into the bottom of my strap box forever, until I saw a comment about bending the bars a bit to make the rubber strap fit. I was just chalking this up to yet another rep issue, but it looks like it's common.

Can those of you in the know comment on this? And should I consider buying these spring bars from Panatime:

I'm kind of at the end of the line with these UPO rubber straps....

Thanks in advance.

 

[Bomba]

Anybody???

 

[dan_j]

If you have extra spring bars try bending them yourself. It worked for me but I was always paranoid that they would come off.

 

[tracyl]

I just bent some myself. But I have boxes full of spring bars, so I'm not worried about destroying them. Mine works great now, and never had an issue with them coming off. I even play sports in it, and never had a problem with the bars breaking.

 

[petemoss]

I had a hard time installing a rubber strap on a 42mm PO. But when I turned the strap like the pic below, it snapped in easily.

 

[Robbo73]

+1 for the technique Petemoss described. 3 minutes flat.

 

[ESLinder]

Excellent. Worked great! Thanks again!

 

[angus1783]

where did you get this strap ? is it a gen ?

 

[petemoss]

That one I got from Narikaa but I heard he was out of stock. Robert (t4D) wrote that
he has them for $30 delivered.

 

[RobbDizzle]

From what I've gathered different rep cases take different straps, as the lug mounting "depth" is different. Same case with the gens, straps fit cases with a certain part # "range". There's a thread about an ebay seller that has great soft ones for $35 shipped somewhere here that people have said good things about.