Dacor HUB Maintenance

[baluvandor]

Thanks, Howard, for the useful advice!
And don't worry, I have a thick skin!
For some reason when I read about the difficulty of maintaining HUB's, I thought they might require special treatment after each dive. I guess people have been referring to the periodic maintenance. I am not sure why that is such an issue, since it is not me doing the work, anyway. Probably more chance for error on the shop's part, but does that really happen? I don't know the stats. I do pay a bit more for the periodic maintenance, but it was still less than $100.
Cheers,

Balu

 

[Jolleyi]

Regardless of what people say... To maintain your HUB, you need to send it off for service to an authorized dealer. World Watersports in Florida is one, otherwise you'll have to send it to MARES directly (who owns DACOR now)

Sure the HUB has it's pros and cons. I did over 100 dives on my HUB, and I still use the jacket as my BCD (I've removed all of the guts, and converted to ScubaPro regs)

 

[Jolleyi]

not sure if I will be able to post as this thread is very old, however HowardE said you removed the guts from a hub, do the various parts of the inflator and buoyancy system unscrew? Mine don't want to budge

 

[happy-diver]

Start with hot water and some light tapping then maybe some phosphoric acid

https://www.divestock.com/downloads/dl/file/id/141/mares_manual.pdf

 

[Jolleyi]

ok all done thanks, just took some elbow grease. Now to decide if a repair is worthwhile

 

[happy-diver]

Great well done, fix it man!