Assembling a Suunto transmitter & AL Legend LX

[ferretchen]

OK, I put it all together. I was forced to use an extender.

Pulling all of the hoses and turning the reg over (diaphragm down) made no difference. Order of assembly made no difference.

The problem is as described by RJP:

I noticed that the "squared off" sides of my transmitter are aligned perfectly to allow maximal clearance - parallel to the adjacent LP port. This is probably a complete random event based on how the threads in the reg were tapped, the threads on the transmitter were tapped, and how the transmitter was assembled. I didn't unscrew my transmitter to test this, but I think that if yours is such that one of the corners of the transmitter is closer to "pointing at" the LP port it would present a problem.

I don't want to void the warrantee, and I will be in the water next week... so I've used the extender for the time being - it solves the problem, and the transmitter doesn't stick out too much farther than it would have. Definitely sub-optimal though.

I'll follow up with the dive shop to see if there's something that can be done. Thanks for the excellent advice, and the links.