Question Help with a Cochran Regulator

[bobc9804]

I recently won this regulator in an auction. I actually purchased it just for the hoses. The regulator is labeled as a cochran. The little I could find on "cochran" is they went out of business after the founder died and they were know for their dive computers. I am assuming that the regulator was OEMed from someone else. Any info on this would be appreciated.

 

[runsongas]

first stage looks like coltri and 2nd stage looks like an older IST

 

[Scared Silly]

I am more curious why anyone would buy an old reg set for the hoses.

 

[scubadada]

Hi @bobc9804

There is a regulator, Cochran Duo Pro, in a 2000 Scuba Diving review that looks similar to yours. No mention of OEM. I bought one Cochran computer and used it 2006-11, I did not know that Cochran ever offered regulators.

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[The Chairman]

I thought it was a Cressi reg. I have three or four of the first stages I use on stage bottles. I still have a few reg kits for it. They don't come with the seats, but I found those too.

 

[cerich]

I am more curious why anyone would buy an old reg set for the hoses.

for display I hope.

 

[Tanks A Lot]

The first stage looks like a Coltri Sub C90. Neither Coltri nor Cochran are the OEM, I suspect it's Lavo (Lavorazioni Industriali) and a variant of their MF4.

That second stage is a bit of of a mystery to me. Interestingly the purge is exactly the same as a XS-Scuba Spirit and the adjustment knob very reminiscent of their SeaAir pre 2011. Whoever was their OEM back then, also designed this second stage. Unfortunately that's as far as I can take it, I can't pinpoint the exact OEM.

 

[Tanks A Lot]

I just wanted to add that the Seeman Sub SL600 shares exactly the same design features. This regulator existed before the Johnson Outdoors buyout of Seemann Sub, then rebranded to Subgear, in 2007.

The Seemann Sub SL400 equals the XS-Scuba Spirit.
The Seemann Sub SL600 equals the XS-Scuba SeaAir which equals the Cochran Duo Pro.

Seemann Subs SL23 first stage additionally looks nearly identical to to the Coltri C90.

Clearly all of the above are somehow connected and I guess can be traced back to the very same OEM. I still don't know who the original OEM is. The oldest design I can find for the second stage stems from Seemann Sub, but they may have very well taken an existing product from a Taiwanese OEM, as a plethora of companies routinely do.

If I had to take a guess, Seemann Sub, XS-Scuba and Cochran all had this second stage manufactured by a Taiwanese OEM.