We're in agreement on that. Dive buddies!English is not my mother tongue but for me dismissive is not a synonym of insulting.
So I agree with you while I think the answer is dismissive, it is not insulting.
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We're in agreement on that. Dive buddies!English is not my mother tongue but for me dismissive is not a synonym of insulting.
So I agree with you while I think the answer is dismissive, it is not insulting.
Well, Aqualung makes one of the most stable, high performing diaphragms on the market. So if you're interested, we can always retrofit a yoke bolt without the ACD mechanism from a sister model. That swap-out is working just fine. I've done that for my two Legends, and am very pleased.Aqualung went on my list of regulators to never buy along with Sherwood and Zeagle.
While Aqualung has yet to come out with formal guidance, you can have your shop replace the shutter valve with the new "ridged" part very easily.Wondering if there are any updates to this topic? FWIW, my inclination, without knowing more, would be to consider updating the first stage with the "new" shutter valve with the ridge, although I was told this was not supposed to be a replacement part for current regs. There are times when I like having the ACD in place, although I would not be opposed to removing it either.
Sherwood and Zeagle
Well, Aqualung makes one of the most stable, high performing diaphragms on the market. So if you're interested, we can always retrofit a yoke bolt without the ACD mechanism from a sister model. That swap-out is working just fine. I've done that for my two Legends, and am very pleased.
As @Diving Dubai will tell you, the ACD is very nice to have in sandy environments to keep foreign material out. And rental guys love them, in case a knucklehead doesn't put the cap back on before rinsing the regulator after diving. But you're right - there was a flaw there that demands some attention.
A Scubapro Mk17 or Poseidon XStream are equivalent quality, but if you run across a used Legend for a good price, we can take out the ACD, no problem!
What's wrong with Sherwood and Zeagle??
I decided to go the piston reg route since i don't dive in caves, rivers or dirty water. from what i understand the SR1 and SR2 had a fair amount of issues bc they were sherwoods first piston regs manufactured in house.
I didn't hear of any issues, but that 1st stage is new-ish. Every other Sherwood uses the same 9000 series 1st stage, but the SR2 design is only 2-3 years old. Still, nothing radical about it when I look over the parts diagram. Pistons are pretty vanilla.Wow, I don't know where you heard that, but Sherwood was the first manufacturer of piston regulators…
Sherwood was manufacturing piston regulators for the other Scuba companies before they were selling their own Scuba gear directly. This is back in the 1960’sand 70’s.
The earliest piston regulator companies like Healthways, Scubapro (a spin off from Healthways), White Stag, Dacor, etc. all had piston first stages manufactured by Sherwood.
Sherwood was manufacturing gas valves and regulators for industrial and commercial applications before the Scuba industry existed.
I have not been able to confirm it, but I have heard from different sources that the patent for the original pneumatic piston pressure reducing regulator was owned by Sherwood before it expired. Again, I have not being able to verify about the patents on piston regulator.
I did hear that they had some issues with those regulators, but it is definitely not because it was their first piston manufactured in house. I don't know what was the issues.