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.

 

[jellycatsdad]

NEX is 100% OEM in Taiwan by Yuhsin systems

Yea, it sounds like the same deal as IST and ODS being the ODM for Tusa/Scubapro’s soft goods(fins/masks) and HOG/Deep6/DGX. Scubapro does make their regs outside of Genoa, Italy(I think Mares/Head, Dive System and Cressi are nearby) but the small parts can come from anywhere from within the EU. Some Tusa regs are made by Scubapro, only their high-end compact one is made in Japan.

I think Huish has Atomic regs assembled in Orange County, CA. In Atomic’s marketing they were proud of it. Oceanic/Zeagle might be made in Italy or Taiwan.

 

[jellycatsdad]

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.

Weird, go to Tusa’s website and they don’t list a plant in Italy:

Contact TUSA

tusa.com

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tabata.jp

SP does list their Italian plant in their reg documentation. But yes, the Scubapro-Tusa/Tabata relationship goes back a long time.

Their Taiwan plant: 株式会社タバタ