halocline
Contributor
I would definitely go back to the shop that serviced it and talk to the owner. If the chrome on that barrel was in good shape before you had it serviced and that’s the way it came back, they should replace it. It’s too bad you have to take your time to go argue with a dive shop about their screw up. It will be interesting to see what their response is. A competent, honest technician would have replaced that barrel at his cost before even putting it back together.
If you have no luck with the shop, i.e. they deny that they did anything wrong, you could try contacting Apeks, I guess. I wouldn’t hold out a lot of hope. Again, this is assuming that the regulator went to the shop for service with a good coating of chrome on that barrel and came back bare brass. I doubt you have a way of proving that. I believe you, and an honest shop owner probably would too.
This is yet another example of why I started servicing my own regs shortly after taking up diving decades ago.
If you have no luck with the shop, i.e. they deny that they did anything wrong, you could try contacting Apeks, I guess. I wouldn’t hold out a lot of hope. Again, this is assuming that the regulator went to the shop for service with a good coating of chrome on that barrel and came back bare brass. I doubt you have a way of proving that. I believe you, and an honest shop owner probably would too.
This is yet another example of why I started servicing my own regs shortly after taking up diving decades ago.
