tarponchik
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Data, for auto tires. Must work the same way for hoses.Data, or speculation?
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Data, for auto tires. Must work the same way for hoses.Data, or speculation?
Data, for auto tires. Must work the same way for hoses.
People fill their tires with nitrox? If you are going on a really long trip, do you need to use trimix?
Auto tires are pressurized 24x7x365=61320 hours each year. Scuba hoses are pressurized maybe 100 hours a year. Do you think that might be relevant?Data, for auto tires. Must work the same way for hoses.
Data, for auto tires. Must work the same way for hoses.
As a card carrying member of the CUC (cinder block user community) and hillbilly from Arkansas, I would like to challenge the scientific validity of this statement.Auto tires are pressurized 24x7x365=61320 hours each year.
Fair enough. I see no reason to argue math or science with a professed hillbilly from Arkansas!As a card carrying member of the CUC (cinder block user community) and hillbilly from Arkansas, I would like to challenge the scientific validity of this statement.
I can't say say for sure this is incorrect, as a combination of both Oxygen and heat can cause hardening of rubber compounds.Data, for auto tires. Must work the same way for hoses.
I just wonder if anyone else has this bizarre rule yet doesn't advertise it on their reservations page, and I'll show up for a dive in the midst of a vacation and be told "sorry you cannot use that potentially life saving and dive extending equipment because once a diver used it wrong" and here I will be last minute having to conform to stupid rules or be out one or more dives.
Let's take it one step further. The deceased diver's next of kin does an investigation including reading posts here on SB where they find written proof that the boat captain refused to allow the diver to take his pony bottle because of some stupid reason and the death would have been avoided completely? How's that for liability?