Before this gets lost in further posts, does anyone know the answer to my question? A dive shop told me that no such retrofit kit exists. An unsealed D1 must remain an unsealed D1. Are they correct?
Is An Environmentally Sealed First Stage Important?
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Before this gets lost in further posts, does anyone know the answer to my question? A dive shop told me that no such retrofit kit exists. An unsealed D1 must remain an unsealed D1. Are they correct?
A quick internet search shows that they are available.
I had tried that and wasn't able to find it using the keyword combos I tried. I am as incompetent with a search engine as my dive shop, Diver's Supply, seems to be with their knowledge of HOG products. But here it is:
HOG D1 Environmental Seal Kit - Parts - Products
re: sealing a D1
I'd also check with Lapenta at UDM Aquatics. If you call/message him, he usually gets you answers pretty quickly.
I'd also check with Lapenta at UDM Aquatics. If you call/message him, he usually gets you answers pretty quickly.
You bet. I have bought regs (not the one in question) from Jim.
KevinNM
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I'm not at all an expert, but an essay that I was pointed at recently is by an expert:
Authorized for Cold Water Service: What Divers Should Know About Extreme Cold
The link at the end should be this: http://www.supsalv.org/pdf/AMU040516.pdf
and
Eating Crow – Safe Water Temperatures for Scuba Regulators
Authorized for Cold Water Service: What Divers Should Know About Extreme Cold
The link at the end should be this: http://www.supsalv.org/pdf/AMU040516.pdf
and
Eating Crow – Safe Water Temperatures for Scuba Regulators
runsongas
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is the cw kit really 50 now? it used to be 25 iirc.
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you need a new shop, Jack can get you the parts if you need them, so can any dealer. Just have to ask. Call Jim, he probably has them in stock, but if you're in Atlanta, Hog is based at the Divers Supply right down the road from you...
For diving in contaminated (e.g. silty) and cold environments, I highly recommend sealing the first stage. Liquid silicone kits, "dry" kits, even vodka in the little plastic shot for your Poseidon all seem to do the intended job of keeping water and crud out of the spot where its freezing/clogging could start a first stage free flow. Cheap insurance is how I see it. And while not all of my regs are environmentally sealed, all of the ones I dive in cold or polluted waters are.
Just ask around your LDS (assuming you are in an area where cold water diving is the norm) and I'm sure you'll hear of numerous "events" where a regulator set up for the tropical warmth of the Caribbean was drafted into service in some dark and cold quarry, and began to free-flow, causing alarm (or worse) for the diver using it.
Death will eventually seek us all out, no reason to improve the odds of an early call by risky diving.
Just ask around your LDS (assuming you are in an area where cold water diving is the norm) and I'm sure you'll hear of numerous "events" where a regulator set up for the tropical warmth of the Caribbean was drafted into service in some dark and cold quarry, and began to free-flow, causing alarm (or worse) for the diver using it.
Death will eventually seek us all out, no reason to improve the odds of an early call by risky diving.
Would you believe that it was some ditz employee at Divers Supply (Atlanta store, not Macon) who told me, when I brought my reg in for service, that there is no such thing as an environment seal / coldwater kit? My reg had some visible corrosion, and my thinking is that the seal might inhibit that in the future. This is why I am going to learn to service them myself (cost of acquiring the tools is the present impediment). I mean, if Divers Supply employees aren't educated about HOG/EDGE products, who is?
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