360 swivel

[tstonedvr]

...I'm not sure I understand your question.......however, from the photograph, it appears the Oxycheq swivel is the 'cheap' design version, not the excellent Atomic version..... I too have several Jetstreams where I'd like to install swivels, I've not had a chance to find out if the Atomic swivels are compatable with the Jetstreams.

Karl

Go to golemgear (or advanced diver magazine)....M&H makes a great swivel for Odins... in fact I have one I'll sell you as I no longer dive them. PM me
Yarg

 

[D_B]

I have the M&J Engineering one, after reading the controversy surrounding there use , here on ScubaBoard
The Kraken is correct, I check everything before I dive ... don't you?

 

[The Kraken]

Don't know who made it, but it cost $36, or thereabouts . . .

the K

 

[DA Aquamaster]

I have the M&H Engineering one, after reading the controversy surrounding there use , here on ScubaBoard
The Kraken is correct, I check everything before I dive ... don't you?

Hmmm.. I was talking with another LDS owner last week and his supplier of the M&H swivel discontinued them due to concerns of their potential to come apart. Consequently he wanted my opinion on the M&H gas switching block (which is bullet proof in my opinion.)

Personally I have no problem with a less expensive screwed together swivel as long as you do a quick predive check to ensure it is not loose and don't mess with it unless you know what you are doing. I suspect the failures have a lot to do with divers ignoring them and in some cases with messing with them.

 

[Uncle Pug]

I cannot figure out why in the world you would need a swivel of any kind on the long hose. It just doesn't need one.

I do use an *angle adapter* on a 36" hose to replace my long hose for warm water diving.
It makes routing the 36" hose under the right arm much cleaner and only adds one captured o-ring.

I wouldn't use a *ball swivel* for anything I didn't want to fail.
The only thing holding the two pieces together (and the o-ring in place) is that little screw.

Some folks are willing to gamble on that little screw... I'm not.
Ask your wife and kid if they are willing to gamble on it.
They've got as much to lose as you.

 

[DA Aquamaster]

I agree with you on that point. On my FFM a 120 degree elbow keeps the hose closer to the neck and does it with much less complexity.

 

[The Kraken]

Used to gamble on the lives of a crew of 4 and 8 grunts based upon the security of a 5/16" nut.

And it held together a whooooollllle lot more than two halves of a ball swivel.

It was called the "Jesus nut".

Still alive.

the K

 

[Uncle Pug]

1. not by choice
2. how many hours of maintenance per one hour of flight?

 

[The Kraken]

1: Yep, I volunteered!
2: 4, but I think it was supposed to be more!

Some will agree, some won't. It will always be that way.

The point to be made, however, is that good and proper inspection of equipment will reduce, significantly, the probability of a "catastrophic" failure of a piece of equipment.

The possibility of failure for any piece of equipment is 100%. The probability of the failure of a piece of equipment is less, and is made more so by proper maintenance, dilligent care, and careful inspection.

the K

 

[Uncle Pug]

1: Yep, I volunteered!

But was it your choice that everything was hanging on that one little nut?