self maintenance

This seems to be a very touchy subject. On one side you have draconian manufacturers and Local Dive Stores that say no one but them should service your regulators because of safety reasons and they will say if they sell you parts that makes them liable, One the other side you have people like...

So let me set the scene for you: You're on a liveaboard getting ready for a dive. You hook up your first stage to your tank, tighten down the yoke, slowly turn on the air. All of a sudden, you hear a pop and a slight hissing. Uh-oh! You turn the air off, slowly purge the system, loosen the yoke...

Over the last few months, I've been buying my own gear. Yesterday, I finally went to a LDS pool to test... 1. I bought a used Zeagle Scout, made around 1996. I had already tested the bladder with manual inflation and it holds air fine. When I connected it to a tank, it inflated by itself...