A Method To Attach Spring Straps
If you wish to mount them to Jetfins, read no further because this is not about that, rather it is about conventional fin mounting, as she is writ today.
I currently use Mares Power Plana Graphites, pretty good fins (of course they don't make them any more) but the next ones will be ScubaPro Jetfins. This means that I needed to mount my precious Straps so that I do _not now_ modify them in any way, preparatory to the Jetfins at which time the thought of modifying ice hockey pucks is rather daunting.
I'm lucky to have a small local manufacturer happy to modify stuff so I took my bootees and fins and straps to him. We agreed that webbing (he conveniently had some at just the right width) would do the trick and set to work.
The removable "circlip" style clip which attaches to (most modern conventional) fins and which takes a conventional fin strap, was cut as close as possible to it's locking hinge (now superfluous) allowing the end of the strap to get as close to the clip as possible. Although I have size 10 feet and these are the "small" versions of the straps, they are still not quite as tight on my heel as I would really - as in _really, really_ like (in semidry mode - haven't tried the DUI Trilam yet but I expect that the straps would be just a little tighter).
What Charlie did was to put a loop of webbing around the gate of the strap and sew this together with the sewn end on the inside of the (my) heel, on both sides of course. He then looped the other end around both the hinges of the strap and the clip three times, ensuring that the exposed end was again on the inside. He then thoroughly sewed this webbing, all six thicknesses of it to itself between the strap and the clip thus making it immovable and pretty bombproof.
It may not be particularly elegant but it sure works and I have not modified, in any way, my Straps.
My grateful thanks to the Scot Breaziles, Todd Leonards of this world (sorry to those that I have, off the top of my head, not remembered right now) for making me think about this rather more carefully than I probably would otherwise have done.