Caveeagle
Contributor
Diving sidemount in cave country, tanks get moved around and carried with regs attached all the time. I would NEVER pick up or move a tank grabbing only the first stage. I actually take care to minimize any contact with it.
Aside from not being designed to be a load bearing connection, the DIN fitting is threaded into the reg housing with a fairly low torque setting. A common problem I have witnessed is allowing the first stage to rotate, counter clockwise during set up, loosening that DIN connection leading to a leak of that internal HP o-ring.
This is just one reason I prefer crew to NOT touch my gear..
Aside from not being designed to be a load bearing connection, the DIN fitting is threaded into the reg housing with a fairly low torque setting. A common problem I have witnessed is allowing the first stage to rotate, counter clockwise during set up, loosening that DIN connection leading to a leak of that internal HP o-ring.
This is just one reason I prefer crew to NOT touch my gear..