New thread split off the Kraken hose loop flooding issue for clarity...
A quick summary:
I had a failure of the HP seat in my near new Kraken on the morning of Day 3 of a 9 day PNG dive trip.
Up till then it had performed perfectly and caused a great deal of interest from the other divers.
I was loving the start of the whole DH experience, so it was very annoying to have it fail before I got the chance to fully explore DH diving.
On my return home I returned the Kraken and the DSV to the US at Bryan's request... no local service available in Australia.
He serviced the Kraken and replaced the HP seat for free which was good but the returned parts showed a very strange wear pattern where the HP Volcano Orifice had engraved the HP Seat so far off centre it hit the inner metal support for the pin, venting HP air through to the loop.
There are some white shadows/darker discoloration on the seat face but the damaged indent is where the material failed. You can see the indent is considerably off centre to the pin aperture, and appears to have been sheared at an angle.
I have pulled apart quite a few Conshelf XIV and Cousteau SEA's and never seen this sort of very off-centre wear pattern. Bryan was at a loss to explain why this would occur, which makes me feel uneasy about it re-occurring.
Hopefully Luis will copy his content here from the other thread so both issues can be discussed separately.
A quick summary:
I had a failure of the HP seat in my near new Kraken on the morning of Day 3 of a 9 day PNG dive trip.
Up till then it had performed perfectly and caused a great deal of interest from the other divers.
I was loving the start of the whole DH experience, so it was very annoying to have it fail before I got the chance to fully explore DH diving.
On my return home I returned the Kraken and the DSV to the US at Bryan's request... no local service available in Australia.
He serviced the Kraken and replaced the HP seat for free which was good but the returned parts showed a very strange wear pattern where the HP Volcano Orifice had engraved the HP Seat so far off centre it hit the inner metal support for the pin, venting HP air through to the loop.
There are some white shadows/darker discoloration on the seat face but the damaged indent is where the material failed. You can see the indent is considerably off centre to the pin aperture, and appears to have been sheared at an angle.
I have pulled apart quite a few Conshelf XIV and Cousteau SEA's and never seen this sort of very off-centre wear pattern. Bryan was at a loss to explain why this would occur, which makes me feel uneasy about it re-occurring.
Hopefully Luis will copy his content here from the other thread so both issues can be discussed separately.