Best books to learn more about equipment

[Mr. Dooley]

For regulators - Regulator Savvy still the gold standard?

Any other recommendations for learning more about cylinders, compressors, etc. or anything like that?

Gonna be outta the water for a little bit, looking to continue education in the meantime.

 

[lowwall]

Books about scuba equipment have always been crap.

But DGX has built a really good collection of articles on all aspects of diving and equipment.

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[Still Kicking]

Airspeed Press (RIP) put out good books on various stuff. Used copies come up for sale and digital copies of some editions are floating in the cloud.

 

[lowwall]

For regulators - Regulator Savvy still the gold standard?

Yes. Unfortunately. Very good on the theory and the illustrations are reasonably clear, but Mr. Wolfinger is not the most engaging writer.

There's an old, but good thread covering this book and the Airspeed Press alternative.

Wolfinger's "Regulator Savvy" versus Harlow's "Regulator Maintenance and Repair"

So you want to know more about regulators and what makes it possible to breath underwater? Either of these two books, Pete Wolfinger's "Regulator Savvy" or Vance Harlow's "Regulator Maintenance and Repair" will make that possible. Both are excellent books designed to teach someone the theory...

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[NitroxSam]

Regulator Savvy is good and readily available. Finding Vance Harlow's book is difficult to say the least. I have come across 1 or 2, but they were very expensive.

Regulator Savvy (Spiral Bound)

Regulator Savvy is a different kind of regulator repair manual. For many years, I have believed that professional regulator service could be better served by teaching the fundamental functions of the regulator, rather than relying solely upon a procedural approach. This book translates this idea...

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[Pearlman]

Yes. Unfortunately. Very good on the theory and the illustrations are reasonably clear, but Mr. Wolfinger is not the most engaging writer.

I have to disagree. I much prefer the clear logical presentation, progression and layout of the topics in the Wolfinger book compared to what I thought was a cluttered narrative in Harlow’s book. At first I downloaded a free copy of that book but pretty soon gave up after a few chapters, then quickly purchased Wolfingers book with a sense of urgency, and I wasn’t disappointed this time.

I think there is a cultural trait or perhaps intellectual tradition about the way German origin thinkers present a topic, elaborately unravelling and reiterating the logic in their presentation, that I quite like and prefer. Beginning with the works of Dr. Karen Horney - a psychoanalyst from the 1940s whose books I avidly devoured many decades back, and whose clarity of intellect enthralled me so much, I have to say I am quiet impressed with their systematic and almost (but not quiet) repetitive approach in the discussion of a topic - maybe some people may find this approach clinical or too dull and dry, and it’s a matter of taste. That said, in reality her books are not dry and clinical, but rather written in a very engaging and narrative style - the usage of the word clinical is more referring to the comprehensive manner in which she covered all her thoughts and muses about the subject matter she wrote on (leaving no stone unturned as they say) , revisiting each little idea in her head over and over as the chapters progressed, with new perspectives, angles and refreshing new insights in each iteration of the idea … if I may use the term “painstskingly comprehensive” and focused in laying threadbare every strand of idea on the subject matter...

As a person possessed with unfortunately, a cluttered mind by nature, the contrasting distraction free minimalist yet comprehensive and maybe perhaps clinical presentation is a welcome opportunity for me to declutter my mind and train my focus purely to the subject matter at hand.