How much do you pay for a reg service?

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av8er23

av8er23

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I have just put my regulators down for service this season. It has been almost two year since the last service and rebuild. I was wondering how much everyone else pays for this service.
I am servicing:
  1. the 1st stage
  2. the primary 2nd
  3. and my air 2

I am paying $45.00 for this. Is this a good price? Also I think that a service after every 50 dives or 2 years is enough. I know that shop owners tell you to service them every year but that seems like a big source of revune for shops during slow times of the year.
 
that is a great price and at the lower end of the scale. Personally I feel that $60-$75 is a reasonable price for labor with a shop that does a excellent job.

No it isn't a big source of revenue for most shops.

50 dives is pretty soon but every two years is OK for a ballpark. It can also depend on what the manuf is looking for in regards warranty/parts programs
 
Apeks offers free parts for life. They have to be done yearly to get the free parts.
I do the work myself, so I pay nothing!! :D
It would be expensive if I didn't. I have a lot of regs ..... regs for single tank, regs for doubles, regs for O2, argon, and stages.
 
I have scubapro and I have decided to not use the guy that I bought it from so my understanding is that the free parts stuff does not apply. Anyways I do not think that I would save that much in free parts over the years to justify paying for the service every 12 months.
 
$45 is a very good price, especially if it includes parts.

I just had mine serviced by TDL. $45+shipping. They said they would charge for parts, but I saw nothing on the bill.

Our LDS used to charge $50 for the service, but sometime this year they upped that to around $80+parts, and they charge over retail for parts. Unfortunately I no longer will use them for service on regs as I paid around $55 with shipping at TDL, and I was looking at around $120 with tax for service which IMO is just too much to service a Zeagle 50D/ZX.

I need to learn to do this myself as it looks rather easy, at least on the Zeagle regs.

Ironically I have spent over 30 minutes just BS'ng with the tech at the LDS about diving, and I get charged nothing! :D Have them do a 30minute reg service and their time is then worth $160 an hour? It's a free market, they can charge what they want, but they lost my business with the latest prices increases.
 
Labor here is around $50 plus parts. However, the shop I went to last time, well, the reg started being VERY touchy, freeflowing alot. The shop close to me (that charges a little more for labor) said they couldn't look ati tin the shop--you see, all the stores around here send their regs to this local guy, every place in town uses him. They don't have an instore tech. So I went to the shop I had send the regs through to get them overhauled, and they said they didn't have the tools to do it inshop (you need needlenose pliers and a screwdriver!) so they'd have to send it out. No way am I paying to have you all redo something that's screwy after only one dive withit! Heck no! I'll rent gear from them (cheapest in town) but no way I'm paying to get regs serviced through them. If it came back from service touchy and I ask for them to tune it better and they want to charge me for it? Nope. In the future, I willl get my own kits and rebuild them myself. I can build the IP gauge for $5 and replacing orings and stuff is a snap. Only caveat is I'll have to rent a tank to test it out, but that's not a problem. If the shop would help me out with a problem like this, then I see the point of sendint it thorugh them. But if they won't, why bother?

Even if it takes me more time than it would take the local tech, for $50, well, that's 7 hours of my labor. Like I want to work a full day to pay for someone to fix a reg, when I get no benefits from it, such as help in case of a problem? Nope, I'll take an extra hour during lunch and rebuild it myself at $7 plus parts.
 
RonFrank:
$45 is a very good price, especially if it includes parts.

I just had mine serviced by TDL. $45+shipping. They said they would charge for parts, but I saw nothing on the bill.

Our LDS used to charge $50 for the service, but sometime this year they upped that to around $80+parts, and they charge over retail for parts. Unfortunately I no longer will use them for service on regs as I paid around $55 with shipping at TDL, and I was looking at around $120 with tax for service which IMO is just too much to service a Zeagle 50D/ZX.

I need to learn to do this myself as it looks rather easy, at least on the Zeagle regs.

Ironically I have spent over 30 minutes just BS'ng with the tech at the LDS about diving, and I get charged nothing! :D Have them do a 30minute reg service and their time is then worth $160 an hour? It's a free market, they can charge what they want, but they lost my business with the latest prices increases.
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The average reg service time is more like 45mins to an hour. Some take longer and some shorter.

$65 an hour is reasonable for experts that do a truly professional job and stand behind it.
 
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