Got given this 2nd stage to service. No brand markings, although the purge cover design looks a bit "Aqualung" and the demand lever looks a bit like the Micra system. Anyone got any ideas on brand / model?
Help identifying 2nd stage
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I agree that looks like an old Micra, but don’t know whose front cover that is. That generation Aqualung/USD was an OEM for some other brands, like Seaquest (before AL bought them) and Genesis. Darn sure the Genesis Valor was a badge engineered Micra, so maybe someone else sold it too. Styling doesn’t resemble Genesis or Seaquest logos.
I wondered about that from the photo. I can’t find anything else close in old Aqualung or Genesis manuals, but that lever still makes me think it has AL DNA.
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I could give a better answer with a few more photos of the body...but it looks like an un-branded Paragon 2000 model...made in Taiwan...KISS used them for a while on their original BOV...
I made best efforts for a couple of years to keep the KISS BOV guys going...
It was for all intents and purposes a ''Micra'' knockoff...the barrel components are very crude...and there is a small ''pin'' which looked to me to be a piece of snipped off sewing needle...which held load on the spring...
Scuba-Lab tested them as ''unsafe at any depth''...
I had the last service kits that existed anywhere for the Paragons...and they're long gone...
Hope this helps...
Happy New Year...
Warren
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