Dust cap left off while soaking Reg

[Tigerman]

Yep, my dream procedure.
On the way back from a dive trip in the sea, a quick dip in the lake of Geneva: the ultimate show off, rinsing your gear with Evian water (Evian, the city and the water plant is only 20 miles away).

The evian water is so full of lime its not even fun though. When we where in the army we used lots of evian bottled water and I can say as much as we wore out a coffee maker a month just because of all the lime deposits that clogged it up to the point it was useless

That being said, peoples tapwater, which they use to clean their gear with, is not any better in many (most?) places.

 

[Zung]

C'mon Tigerman, since when show off needs to be effective?

 

[Splitlip]

I will punt on the service question but you should not submerge a first stage with a dust cap affixed. Simply rinse well or if you soak keep pressurized via pony cylinder, etc.

Where in Fla are you? Scott

Yup. What Scott said.
I do soak my Scubapros over night, pressurized.

 

[snt75]

I need an advice regarding a similar problem. A week ago my instructor found out that my new Scubapro x650 had been soaked for about 20 minutes without the protective cap. My instructor is also the owner of the shop who sold me the regulator and he is also the one who is doing servicing of Scubapro and Poseidon regulators at the shop so he should know something about regulators. He also have about 30 years of diving experience.
Anyway, I asked him if the regulator was damaged. He told me that it should be fine although he advised me not to soak or rinse without the protective cap again as water may lead to washing out lubricants. He did NOT dry the regulator by putting it on a tank and running air through it. He just handed it back to me and when I kept asking him about it he insisted that I shouldn’t worry that this one accident will damage a well engineered product such as the x650.
The next morning I dived for 68 minutes at about 9m with the regulator. My question is if all the air that went through the regulator during the next morning was enough to dry the first stage and the hoses completely? Also, what about water in the hose of the octopus? Since I didn’t use the octopus then is it possible that water in the hose of the octopus didn’t dry (if there was any)? I became more worried after I read in this forum about the drying procedure in such cases, which my instructor didn’t do. So, should I worry that not drying the regulator as described above will lead to damage?

 

[Tigerman]

C'mon Tigerman, since when show off needs to be effective?

Youve got a point.. Looking at the ski slopes, I think the answer is "never". Lots of posers there that basically spend all day just sitting there in the expensive, flashy gear they dont know how to use just to pose

 

[duckbill]

I need an advice regarding a similar problem. A week ago my instructor found out that my new Scubapro x650 had been soaked for about 20 minutes without the protective cap. My instructor is also the owner of the shop who sold me the regulator and he is also the one who is doing servicing of Scubapro and Poseidon regulators at the shop so he should know something about regulators. He also have about 30 years of diving experience.
Anyway, I asked him if the regulator was damaged. He told me that it should be fine although he advised me not to soak or rinse without the protective cap again as water may lead to washing out lubricants. He did NOT dry the regulator by putting it on a tank and running air through it. He just handed it back to me and when I kept asking him about it he insisted that I shouldn’t worry that this one accident will damage a well engineered product such as the x650.
The next morning I dived for 68 minutes at about 9m with the regulator. My question is if all the air that went through the regulator during the next morning was enough to dry the first stage and the hoses completely? Also, what about water in the hose of the octopus? Since I didn’t use the octopus then is it possible that water in the hose of the octopus didn’t dry (if there was any)? I became more worried after I read in this forum about the drying procedure in such cases, which my instructor didn’t do. So, should I worry that not drying the regulator as described above will lead to damage?

If you dived it, the water is out of your 1st and 2nd stages. I would have used the octopus half the time to dry it out as well. I would be most worried about water being in the HP hose. There's no good way to get it out without taking the hose of your reg and gauge and blowing it out and giving everything time to dry while apart. If there was any saltiness to the "rinse" water, then I'd be inclined to rinse everything out with truely fresh water before drying. Hopefully no water entered the HP hose, which could be, given the very small orifice leading into it. However, going from warmer outside air into a cooler water soak will form a vaccuum in all the waterlocked air spaces, and water could have been drawn into your HP hose. It could become a problem, especially if it was used, salty rinse water. JMO.

 

[Zung]

Youve got a point.. Looking at the ski slopes, I think the answer is "never". Lots of posers there that basically spend all day just sitting there in the expensive, flashy gear they dont know how to use just to pose

You ain't seen nothing until you've seen Courchevel, where the average lady dons $5'000 worth of textile

Sorry about the hijack.

 

[Tigerman]

You ain't seen nothing until you've seen Courchevel, where the average lady dons $5'000 worth of textile

Sorry about the hijack.

Actually.. $5000 is more like what the average MAN dons around here
That being said, prices are kinda steep in Norway. Almost keeps up with the slopes