Are there any regulators made in USA?

[tridacna]

I still don't get it.
A little country like Sweden making Poseidons and all the rest of quality things they make there.
A little country like Italy making Scubapro's and sexy cars like Ferrari's and Lamborghini's and the finest suits and high quality leather shoes.
My wife bought a high quality vacuum made in Germany and it was $1000, she loves it! It was worth every penny.
And in a country the size of ours with our technology and our man power and our resources somehow we can't make sh!t!
It's very frustrating.
I would be willing to pay whatever it took if I knew I was paying someone's livable wages and supporting a domestic industry, but it's not even an option.
Buying vintage stuff that was made here decades ago doesn't count.

Tabata (TUSA) owns the manufacturing facilities in Italy - not SP. Where they get the parts from is another “mystery”. They share designs with the Mk5 and Mk16 and manufacture for other brands too.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

So now Eric can start cranking out the reg bodies and ship them to you for plating

It would be all 316 stainless, no plating.
The first stage would be a balanced piston that's sealable, and the second stage would be an all metal body with a barrel poppet, balanced, something between a 1085 and a 109 but with a venturi adjust and a tuning knob.
If you ever scratched it or dented it could be straightened/metal finished and polished out.
If it ever cracked it could be TIG welded and repaired. A true lifetime reg.
And parts would be available to the end user of course.

 

[rhwestfall]

And cost...

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Diving is a very expensive sport that attracts the cheapest sons of bitches in the world.
And that folks is the root of the entire problem.