Rose Robinson
Contributor
This past weekend at my wife's certification class, one of the instructors HP 6" hose for her transmitter disintegrated at the metal coupling. The dive shop owner suggested it was from "knock off" braided hoses. I have all dive gear express double braided hoses on my wife's Deep6 reg set up. He looked at them and said they were not miflex and they were the cheaper knock off's. SO my question is; does anyone have any negative impressions of dive gear express double braided hose's?
GQ,
Just my opinion, DGX is the best of the best, sales/service/after sales support, and the list goes on.
Contact DGX, explain your concern, all of your purchases are stored by DGX, I'm sure they will make good on your failed hose. E-mail them some photos.
I've used DGX since at least 2006, swear by them.
Miflex is only one brand who have had their fair share of braided hose failures, non-Myflex, does not necessarily mean ''knock-off". as far as knock-off is concerned, Deep 6 could be considered knock-off. The regs are made in Taiwan, and with the exception of cosmetic differences only, come with many brand names, some widely known, some obscure.
I'd be interested in knowing what regs you dive, in comparison to what you have chosen for your spouse.
Also, everything that's made, fails at some point. Pre/post dive inspection/cleaning/maintenance/routine replacement of consumable items is very important. Usually when a component like this fails, tell-tale signs were there long before the failure, making pre/post dive inspection very important.
After the MVA caused by brake failure, the investigating constable discovered a note tacked to the visor of the victims car, ''get brakes fixed tomorrow''. So was it the brakes that failed, or the operator?
Rose