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Question I have a brand new Balanced Adjustable CE
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Eric Sedletzky
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axxel57
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No way I would dive that beauty seriously ( a try in the pool maybe), I wouldn't expect any special experience from diving it. It's a BA, basta!
So even with a bigger exhaust valve I wouldn't expect a different feeling.
I'm with Kupu.
To me that BA ( a true '156') is simply too rare and special to waste it, even when I understand other opinions.
Regs are there for diving, but that one is history and in it's condition almost nowhere to find.
I would keep it for my collection, make pics for my documentation, or sell it to a true collector.
BTW Kupu, maybe that would be an opportunity for me to get even with you for the GSD Pioneer 1st you sent me for free a while ago.
I have a BA of the last generation, which is well used, but with a nice front plate you might have from another BA it could be a nice usable 2nd.
I had already my fun with it servicing it and making pics and I will definitely never dive it, so it would be ready for someone 'in need'. PM me if you want it.
So even with a bigger exhaust valve I wouldn't expect a different feeling.
I'm with Kupu.
To me that BA ( a true '156') is simply too rare and special to waste it, even when I understand other opinions.
Regs are there for diving, but that one is history and in it's condition almost nowhere to find.
I would keep it for my collection, make pics for my documentation, or sell it to a true collector.
BTW Kupu, maybe that would be an opportunity for me to get even with you for the GSD Pioneer 1st you sent me for free a while ago.
I have a BA of the last generation, which is well used, but with a nice front plate you might have from another BA it could be a nice usable 2nd.
I had already my fun with it servicing it and making pics and I will definitely never dive it, so it would be ready for someone 'in need'. PM me if you want it.
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axxel57
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As you can see on the pics, my one has barrel sleeve ( or are you writing about another one?).
I'm already investigating about the SN, which to me is a bit odd.
As I understood, the first cypher has been the year of the production, which in my case would be '98, so that would fit.
Your zero doesn't make sense, because it couldn't be 1990, and since, as far as I know the production of the 156 was ceased in '98 (in Japan I think in '99), the zero could not refer to the year 2000, but who knows.
When I know more, I'll get back to you.
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As weird as it sounds I’ve never opened it. I bought it from somebody here on SB, last year.
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Original box, serial number matches.
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I’m going to open it and see what she looks like on the inside. I’ll send pictures.
Lex has it right. Save it only if one is a collector. I found myself in a similar situation with a few examples too pretty for me to dive. Not being a collector, I put those regs into the hands of those who are.
So my answer is none of the above-sell/trade/give it to a collector. (But only after you've enjoyed having it for a little while and teased your friends on SB with more pictures.)
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