Hey, aren't you supposed to be in your rebreather class right now??
BTW, the inspo I bought was a mess (which I knew going in, and paid accordingly)...in storage for 2 years so it was filthy, every piece of metal had salt water corrosion, there was dried out falling apart duct tape on every hose around old colored hose covers, suicide clips tied everywhere on the BP with square knots and 2" frayed ends... a mess!
Friday my upgraded HH head from Juergensen arrived, and so did my JJ-CCR BOV. So I spent Friday through Sunday taking every inch of the thing apart and cleaning it. I did vinegar sonic cleaning to all the metal parts, including the LP/HP hose ends, scrubbed with brushes, and then a simple green bath. I soaked the lungs. BP and convoluted hoses in Simple Green, cleaned and rinsed. I tossed every single O ring and replaced it with new. I re-rigged the harness webbing. I cleaned off old yuck from the box. i rebuilt the ADV.
There are Maddog stickers on the tanks, and I'm leaving them. There is a Maddog patch on the left lung, and I'm leaving that (in fact, I think I'll add my PADI DIR patch on the right lung
). In the next couple of weeks I'll rebuild the Apeks regs and the valves, and O2 clean the tanks. One of the tanks is the euro, so eventually I'll have to replace it (it's already out of hydro, but I fill my own).So the money I saved on the kit I pay for with grit. The upgrade to the head and the BOV actually cost me more than the rest of it.
I ordered 2 containers of sorb and 4 O2 cells (and then when the head got to me, I see they put in 3 already). I still need to order cleaning agent (Virkon S?) and scrim and more O rings to replace all the ones I used up. I'm thinking of adding a dil/bov manifold.
I need to learn the head controls. I put in my passwords yesterday and that's it.
My class doesn't start until the end of May, so I have some time.
