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I followed a thread int he Apeks forum about working on your own regs. HOG has led the industry (how I hate that word, more like herd of cats, but I digress) in having a program where you may get qualified to repair and maintain your own reg and buy parts. Many feel that it is because the manufacturers don't want to have some imagined liability of folks repairing theior own reg. Think about that. Instead of the manufscturers and dive shops assuming all of the liability for regulator repair, we're going to spread it out to the actual diver who worked on it. Defense attorney: "Who was the last person to rebuild the failed regulator, Mr. manufacturer?". Manufacturer: "We have evidence that the plaintiff bought kits and took the class and repaired his own regulator". "Oh, so the deceased was the last person to repair their regulator? It worked fine before the victim repaired it?" That's a case dismissed right there. So, if it isn't liability, what is it. Half of the newly repaired/serviced gear I see on my charter boat fails first dive. That's right, half. Some have tried it in the pool, but most just come on the boat and test it at 80 feet. I don't understand why a dive shop wants to have a lock on servicing gear. Any other theories?