I'm usually listening to the fire department radio ad I'm in the Firehouse servicing my OTS full face masks for our Dive Rescue Team. Sometimes have some Jimmy Buffett playing on my phone in the background. Keep up the great articles on the channel, thanks for putting it out there. Happy new year!
I’d recommend doing a few local dives after you get your regulator back too. I’ve picked up my regulators from the shop and they were not quite right. It would have been horrible to fly those around the world and not have good working regulators.
I know that Deep 6 offers classes to everyone to show how to service their gear. We dove Deep 6, and I service all the family regs at the recommended interval and we will do 3-4 pool/local dives before any trip to make sure it is all working.
You can service your own regulators at home, if you are doing it corectly it will not be cheep, you need a lott of tools to do so and follow service manual. Its good to be in good relationship with owner of your local dive store so he can send you on course becouse its not something that will many people do.
@@andrews.9286 I know how much tools cost, most expensive tools are untrasonic cleaner and good torque wrench, and the rest are some normal and some specialized tools, but if you are comparing price of tools with service cost its pays with time, only problem is that if you are buying service kits from apeks for example you are paying 40 - 60€ for parts for first and second stage, thats why its good to know service people that can get that for you way cheeper. And tools don't cost as labor for one service, thats just not true they are way more expensive, in my area service of 1. and 2. stage for Apeks is € 75 just torque wrench is at least € 100
It's a lot of tools for someone who does not already have tools. The tools that you most likely do not have are an intermediate pressure gauge, a second stage adjustment tool and a differential pressure gauge with range of +/- 500pa. Other than that there are at least one ultrasonic bath and an assortment of wrenches, vises and picks. The other so called specialized tools can be easily machined or printed. Anyway, if you never touched a torque wrench in your life or at least serviced a carburetor, it's best to let a techie do it.
@@ciocanul i have everything you just said, I can service my gear its not hard. But I have seen people that can't figure out how to conect din regulator, there are a lot of people that should not touch regulators becouse they will f something. I said its expensive becouse if you on online and start buying all at once it won't be cheep (as you said).
As a diver, is there any reason to keep the old parts from a reg service? Could they serve any purpose on boat if an issue arises? Obviously, I won’t be rebuilding anything on a boat, but maybe a diaphragm or exhaust valve?
I don’t keep any used parts when I service my regs. Reg techs typically give them back to you only as proof that the parts were replaced. First stage diaphragms should not be reused. Second stage diaphragms are pretty well protected and should not fail if replaced regularly and taken care of. Same with exhaust valves in my opinion. If you do insist on carrying them as spares I’d much prefer to bring new ones as they’ll be less brittle from age. I usually just bring a whole spare (recently serviced) second stage on a long trip rather than a whole bin of reg parts “just in case”.
For my xStream (Poseidon) my tech will typically give me back the old servo (if replaced) as on that reg that is something that be swapped out very easily in the field on the second stage if you absolutely needed to temporality with a used one. Otherwise all the other parts they will show me if I ask for them, but they are just a bunch of different o-rings, insert, filter and such on my reg that get tossed.
