Not servicing my gear EVER!

[divad]

Actually I'm not suggesting anything. Ideally, I would like him to check his regs at his manufacturers recommended service interval.
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Actually you're suggesting that "Ideally [you] would like him to check his regs at his manufacturers recommended service interval" as oppossed to constantly monitoring them himself, which is as simple as monitoring how much paper is left on the bog-roll.

 

[DwayneJ]

Actually you're suggesting that "Ideally [you] would like him to check his regs at his manufacturers recommended service interval" as oppossed to constantly monitoring them himself, which is as simple as monitoring how much paper is left on the bog-roll.

Ahhh sorry - Just to clarify...

1. What I said "Well that sucks, you owe me a beer"
2. What I thought "Well that sucks, you owe me a case of beer"
3. Do I believe he has the skill or patience to perform reg problem analysis, service or check IP? No.
4. An extra piece of information I omitted since I did not expect the "Spanish Inquisition" - IP tested fine on the bench. It faulted at depth.

I honestly could not care if he services his regs or not since at the time it was his boat we were diving from. Is that clear or is there something else that you are inferring that I was inferring I should have said? I updated previous post to remove any ambiguity based on the above clarifying statements?

By the by since this is the BASIC Discussion - Which chapter is IP testing and 1st and 2nd stage tear down in the PADI OW book? What chapter documents the recommended IP's for the various Manufacturers/Models? How do you adjust... You own? Your buddies? How to you fix corrosion when you find it... A little beyond the BASIC Discussion and the capabilities of my dive buddies.

I just gave my thanks to Copter53 for taking me down a rat hole - Well done!

 

[divad]

Ahhh sorry - Just to clarify...

1. What I said "Well that sucks, you owe me a beer"
2. What I thought "Well that sucks, you owe me a case of beer"
3. Do I believe he has the skill or patience to perform reg problem analysis, service or check IP? No.
4. An extra piece of information I omitted since I did not expect the "Spanish Inquisition" - IP tested fine on the bench. It faulted at depth.

I honestly could not care if he services his regs or not since at the time it was his boat we were diving from. Is that clear or is there something else that you are inferring that I was inferring I should have said? I updated previous post to remove any ambiguity based on the above clarifying statements?

By the by since this is the BASIC Discussion - Which chapter is IP testing and 1st and 2nd stage tear down in the PADI OW book? What chapter documents the recommended IP's for the various Manufacturers/Models? How do you adjust... You own? Your buddies? How to you fix corrosion when you find it... A little beyond the BASIC Discussion and the capabilities of my dive buddies.

I just gave my thanks to Copter53 for taking me down a rat hole - Well done!

You seem bitter.

 

[Mr Carcharodon]

Oh it is all pretty basic and appropriate to this form. PADI and some regulator technicians jealously guard some fairly trivial bits of information because that gives them monopoly pricing advantage. In that regard they are not any worse than auto mechanics, plumbers or physicians. Of course they all say they are doing it for your safety.

 

[Pullmyfinger]

Ah yes, safety. There are so many out there looking after our safety. ;-)

 

[DwayneJ]

Oh it is all pretty basic and appropriate to this form. PADI and some regulator technicians jealously guard some fairly trivial bits of information because that gives them monopoly pricing advantage. In that regard they are not any worse than auto mechanics, plumbers or physicians. Of course they all say they are doing it for your safety.

I agree... But I just would not want to see some of my buddies with a wrench in their hand. The original thread and question was about "No Service" and now we are talking about "Self Service". I'm all for self service but with the limits of an individuals time, skills, tools and training.

 

[DwayneJ]

Ah yes, safety. There are so many out there looking after our safety. ;-)

Air Traffic Controllers and Durex are my two favorites!

 

[divad]

OK, one last time; using an IP gauge is as simple as taking your temperature and less messy than taking a home-pregnancy-test.

 

[cloudflint]

I agree... But I just would not want to see some of my buddies with a wrench in their hand. The original thread and question was about "No Service" and now we are talking about "Self Service". I'm all for self service but with the limits of an individuals time, skills, tools and training.

I hear ya there, one of the guys in my club years ago serviced his own posiden cyklon's and after rebuilding them discovered he had a part left over. He eventually figured out where the piece went in the first stage and proceeded to dive the regs for a year or so before someone else told him that the bit left over was the end of a pencil

On the other hand, I have seen people put their regs in for a service only to have them free-flow massively the first time they where pressurised due to the IP being set to 13 bar (188 psi) rather than 9 bar (130 psi). The moral of these stories are that some regs will work flawlessly with little servicing for a long time even with pieces of pencil inserted and some people should not work on regulators .

 

[redacted]

I agree... But I just would not want to see some of my buddies with a wrench in their hand. The original thread and question was about "No Service" and now we are talking about "Self Service". I'm all for self service but with the limits of an individuals time, skills, tools and training.

An IP gauge is to servicing a regulator as a tire pressure gauge is to installing new tires.

Checking IP is not service.