Does SSI take gear inspections a little far?

[theduckguru]

You probably just need a new reg.

 

[pittyyofool]

GEEE, they would $#!T a brick if i showed up.

In a class setting the instructor can require whatever he wants of your gear. He is ultimately responsible for your life. If he is not confident that your gear will keep you alive, you don't dive.

 

[redacted]

GEEE, they would $#!T a brick if i showed up.

In a class setting the instructor can require whatever he wants of your gear. He is ultimately responsible for your life. If he is not confident that your gear will keep you alive, you don't dive.

Or you go find another instructor/shop/agency.

 

[Davidstealey3]

i would demand a royalty fee

sorry i dont know who said this, but i did give you a thank you.
its one thing if you buy a regulator from them and they give you a free hose protector with the shops name, but to insists you need there name on your gear to get in a pool is rediculous

as for checking your gear to see what you have, no way. you are a certified diver, and its your gear. you were told about the servicing of gear in OW class and when you bought it. its your choice weather or not to do this. when you buy your car you get a factory recomendation service sechudle, but not everygody does it.
it is a good idea to do your stuf every year, but someone should not force you to do it

we have had old gear come into the shop, and we might give each other a funny look, but if that is what they want to dive with it who am i to tell them otherwise, all i can do is make a sugestion

 

[Davidstealey3]

are you being charged for it

I would assume so. I haven't taken my gear up there yet.

if you do i would ask them for my kiss. and if they ask why, tell them i usually get kissed after i get ********d

 

[Davidstealey3]

Ok, so you O2 clean my tanks, then fill them. I then go diving for the next two months and fill my tanks with regular air from my home compressor. I tend to be suicidal though so I use a gas compressor, with no venting and just use an old oily rag as my intake filter. Now I decide to bring my tanks back to you because I want some good ole O2. You cleaned them, but you have no idea what I put in them.

The sticker tells you when it was O2 cleaned and regardless of whether you put the sticker on it yesterday or another shop did 6 months ago, you still have no idea what has been put into once it leaves your sight.

This sounds like a perfect example of LDSs "give me money" line.

You know, if I had to pump pure oxygen into someone's tank, I would want to O2 clean it myself. OK, so it was cleaned, way back when. How do I, a simple tank monkey, know that you haven't polluted the tank with crappy air after is was cleaned?

It's odd, LDSs are willing to accept the 'Nitrox Clean' from tank manufacturers before doing partial pressure blending. But that's not what the tank manufacturer said. They said the tank was clean for EAN40, not pure O2. I have always wondered about that...

Richard

here is the problem with this richard

when you bring the tank in they should ask you if you have out anything in the tank other then nitrox, and then check it with an analyser. if the tank has less then 23% 02 in it they should not be filling it with oxygen.
in this case you have changed the gas in the tank and the nitrox sticker needs to be removed from the tank. then you will need to have it cleaned again for partial pressure blends. this is a CGA or rule from the dot in section 49 of the CFR.
while i am not sure if 23% is correct off hand, go to the TANK, VALVE and BANDS section and ask or PM Gilldiver or Luis H and they should be able to give you the right number. they have been doing inspections longer then me

as for the tanks coming nitrox clean you have the wrong word. its nitrox compatiable. good only up to 40% if done by a nitrox stick or membrane system. it will have to be cleaned for partial pressure blending

 

[Davidstealey3]

It's a shop thing. Couple years ago, customer in a shop i was working in wanted to use their own gear. We wanted to inspect it, he got huffy but brought it in. Total trash. thirty year old reg, green with corrosion,non functional gauges horsecollar BC, dry rotted, dry rotted rubber skirt mask, he bought it on Ebay for $800.00. Total rip off. All of it failed testing, and no, we did not charge him for the inspections

let me change my previous statement, if you bring in the gera and it looks good no problem, it it looks like the description above, we would sugest he think of getting new gear, but would look at it to see if it was salvagable.