Question Droplets behind glass of SPG - where to go from here

[Nemrod]

Mine is literally the 2-inch DGX. I can only assume somewhere in transit it took a 'whack' that undid the face-seal. Otherwise I really liked it for it's heft and readability.

I suspect a large number of these "made in Italy" SPG's are all the same under the hood except for face and branding.

Edit to add: even DGX says: "these popular gauges are sold under a variety of brand names, but are all manufactured by Termo Industria in Italy."

All of the B&G spgs come from the same place in Italy. They just change out the branding. Hope they stay in business or we will have to switch to those cursed AI things or maybe I would just quit diving. The lens retainer is swaged on to the body. They are really not serviceable. Sometimes if the retainer is banged on something hard enough it will leak and sometimes they just leak anyways. Really, in the grand scheme of things, the B&G spg is ultra reliable, accurate enough and inexpensive enough.

Once upon a time, Scubapro made a boot for their B&G spg. It was a simple, easy to remove cover of neoprene rubber and had large holes for drainage. It protected the spg from knocks and could be slid off for cleaning. I am sure some are howling in pain, hose covers, spg covers, egad! I guess I removed mine not because these things were not effective for their purpose but in the end, as a minimalist, I had to remove them. And now I want to put the cover back on if I could find it.

These DIN fittings coming loose, what a PITA. Maybe just switch to a yoke? My Mark 2 Evo DIN came loose when one of the DMs grabbed my kitted out rig by the regulator first stage to hoist it into a truck during my Red Sea trip. I ran back to my room, grabbed my G260 Mark 17E DIN and swapped them out. Had that happened on the beach or boat, well? Might have missed a dive.

 

[Chrisk919]

These DIN fittings coming loose, what a PITA. Maybe just switch to a yoke?

But I just *left* yoke 1 year ago, lol.

I know the service manuals are around for this (DGX Xtra) - I'm going to take a variation on happy-diver's advice, find the torque ratings and make sure this center pin/hex bolt is set properly, as well as reprogram myself to unscrew the DIN knob instead when taking off the cover.

 

[Still Kicking]

Once upon a time, Scubapro made a boot for their B&G spg. It was a simple, easy to remove cover of neoprene rubber and had large holes for drainage. It protected the spg from knocks and could be slid off for cleaning. I am sure some are howling in pain, hose covers, spg covers, egad!

SP gauges still come with a rubber boot. I am an apostate and I leave mine on. The horror! It comes with an eye for a bolt snap too.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

All of the B&G spgs come from the same place in Italy. They just change out the branding. Hope they stay in business or we will have to switch to those cursed AI things or maybe I would just quit diving. The lens retainer is swaged on to the body. They are really not serviceable. Sometimes if the retainer is banged on something hard enough it will leak and sometimes they just leak anyways. Really, in the grand scheme of things, the B&G spg is ultra reliable, accurate enough and inexpensive enough.

Once upon a time, Scubapro made a boot for their B&G spg. It was a simple, easy to remove cover of neoprene rubber and had large holes for drainage. It protected the spg from knocks and could be slid off for cleaning. I am sure some are howling in pain, hose covers, spg covers, egad! I guess I removed mine not because these things were not effective for their purpose but in the end, as a minimalist, I had to remove them. And now I want to put the cover back on if I could find it.

These DIN fittings coming loose, what a PITA. Maybe just switch to a yoke? My Mark 2 Evo DIN came loose when one of the DMs grabbed my kitted out rig by the regulator first stage to hoist it into a truck during my Red Sea trip. I ran back to my room, grabbed my G260 Mark 17E DIN and swapped them out. Had that happened on the beach or boat, well? Might have missed a dive.

We’d just have to go back to J valves I reckon.

 

[USdiver1]

We’d just have to go back to J valves I reckon.

While some of us have never left the J valve stage.

 

[Nemrod]

SP gauges still come with a rubber boot. I am an apostate and I leave mine on. The horror! It comes with an eye for a bolt snap too.

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The old Scubapro I am talking about did not cover the hose fitting, just a simple round boot, no doodads. I got a couple somewhere. Maybe I need to find them.

 

[rx7diver]

While some of us have never left the J valve stage.

Recently purchased a U.S. Divers pillar J-valve to use with my DRAM + VDH Classic double hose reg back plate + VDH 23# Argonaut wing (+ SP BA as an octopus). Very happy camper here.

ETA: And yes, the old U.S. Divers SPG still wears a simple rubber boot similar to @Nemrod's description.

rx7diver

 

[happy-diver]

Now I'm not saying pull on the end of your ratchet with the strength of one Zulu warrior
What I am saying, is you screw the fitting up in there, and you must make sure the oring
or whatever is in there is not dislodged until it bottoms out by finger where you will feel
your oring grip and then compress, increasing the finger tightening tension, until it then
bottoms out brass to brass or chrome to brass or chrome to chrome, and then you grab
your ratchet by the clicker not the handle, and twist more, middle of the handle not end

Levers and fulcrums

and get a finger feel for all those things and you can finess it so you don't split your reg

https://www.deep6gear.com/PDFs/Deep6_Signature_Manual_3_2_Final_WithSchematics.pdf

Where regs, are pretty much the same as any other, before they spoilt them, with knobs