Flea Market Find

[yknot]

I was at a flea market a couple of weeks age. I stumbled on an older steel 72 with a "Voit" Titan 2 reg attached. The sticker on the tank is 1980 (tank also has "ICC" stamp). There is still about 200 PSI in the tank. I thought it was worth a $20 chance. Anybody familiar with Voit regs? I kind of doubt I could even get parts or rebuild and don't plan on diving this anyway. I am looking at this more as a novelty. Incidently, the tank doesn't appear abused and I will eventually invest in a hydro.

 

[Deco]

Even if you could find parts for that reg, I wouldn't waste my time.

Make yourself a shadow box and put that reg where it belongs.......behind glass.

Dive safe

Deco

 

[Ontario Diver]

I agree tho. Clean it up and hang it in the den.

(Now if you don't want it.......)

 

[MgicTwnger]

Those regs turn up on eBay from time to time. Apparently they are collectors items. It was a great reg 30 years ago.

 

[Tractor Tom]

I used to dive a Voit, about 25 years ago in Hawaii, when I was first certified to dive. It worked pretty good at all depths to about 80 feet or so. Of course in those days, regulators weren't really balanced like the regs today. I also used to dive an AL80 with a J valve, no octo, no pressure gauge, horse collar BC. Would dive until it started to breath hard and flip the J valve and head to the surface. That was long ago, and I sure as hell wouldn't try it today. The new equipment is so much better than what we used to have....

 

[Aquamaniac]

My first pair of Fins were Voit, I think I still have them!!!

 

[reefrat]

Aquamniac

Voit Slazenger fins I'll bet!! Blue full foot ones with a picture of a "skindiver" on the blade, they were the first real fins I owned when I was a kid.

Some of the old (early Conshelf and Scumapro) regs breathed OK but they're not a patch on even a mediocre reg today.

Wouldn't mind a couple of old regs to hang in my bar though!

 

[dmdalton]

I've still got my first reg, a "Voit Polaris 50". Cost me $50 in 1962. Double hose, single stage. I just picked up new hoses for it. I may try it out just for grins.

The 72 is still a good tank. I have 4 sets of them doubled up that I use for dives in the 130-200 fsw range.

Dave D

 

[oxyhacker]

Not familiar with the Titan specifically, but Voit got started licensing designs from USD, and the line was eventually sold to Mares, so it is often possible to find parts that will fit from one or the other to service Voit regulators - a lot of the common service parts, on the lower end regs especially, haven't changed over the years.

Nor have basic downstream/non-balanced pistons regs. I still have a couple Voits kicking around that I use for stage bottles, and they seem to work as well as any other low end reg new or old.

yknot once bubbled...

Anybody familiar with Voit regs? I kind of doubt I could even get parts or rebuild and don't plan on diving this anyway. I am looking at this more as a novelty.

 

[Ontario Diver]

dmdalton once bubbled...
I've still got my first reg, a "Voit Polaris 50". Cost me $50 in 1962. Double hose, single stage. I just picked up new hoses for it. I may try it out just for grins.

The 72 is still a good tank. I have 4 sets of them doubled up that I use for dives in the 130-200 fsw range.

Dave D

Gosh, its is only a year older than me... Can I dive it?