Just got 2 "New" Double-Hose Regs!!

[Thalassamania]

I don't know if you guys need a writer, an instructor, an arbitrator or a shrink!

 

[Gilldiver]

Here is an alternative:


On the other hand, please make sure that the regulators from that old timer friend of yours don’t go to waist. There is a growing market for decent US Divers double hose regulators.

I spoke with him on Friday, he has his original reg from 1956 and one he calls "real old."

He is going to dig them out and send me a list. He may have some dollars in the basement. Lets see what is a 1949 Aqua Lung Specio (SP?) reg going for on the market? Time to look through my old issues of Historical Diver!

 

[captain]

Here is one ready to go.

http://www.vintagedoublehose.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1291&start=135

 

[ams511]

Does any body know the price on these new limited edition minstral regs

Northeast Scuba Supply changed their webpage and took the price off. From what I remember the price for the normal one was $299.00 and $399.00 for the special edition. If you bought two in any combination they would take $100.00 off. You can check with the OP to see if my memory is correct.

 

[ams511]

He only does it to annoy me . . .

You should have put it in your wedding vows.

Do you Peter take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife
for richer or poorer
sickness and in health
and to forever forsake the double-hose regulator.

 

[Gilldiver]

What I would do is take it, an old 72 I have around someplace and put on a navy cotton web strap harness that I also have around someplace and screw with a few DIR want-to-be's.

 

[fishb0y]

What I would do is take it, an old 72 I have around someplace and put on a navy cotton web strap harness that I also have around someplace and screw with a few DIR want-to-be's.

I do it all the time... I hopped into a team of DIR guys in doubles, while I had my BP, twin72s & DW Mistral. I thought they were gonna have a 'stroke'

 

[Gilldiver]

I do it all the time... I hopped into a team of DIR guys in doubles, while I had my BP, twin72s & DW Mistral. I thought they were gonna have a 'stroke'

To bad I sold off the set of 72's with old (rusted) steel bands and USD single reg J-valve. I still have a set with the old sherwood double reg manifold. If I put on an old hard pack that should do it.

 

[Nemrod]

Thing about the DW Mistral is that it has only one O ring, one little push pin, one seat, one double fulcrum lever and that is it. So few pieces and no seals there is nothing hardly there to fail or break that would stop it from functioning. I got my Mistral as a gift in 1968 and it was already ten years old and had been dived a good bit. I dove it a bunch more. I put another set of hoses on it with my allowance and dove it another ten years. At no time in there do I recall do any sort of "annual" service. When I finally recovered it from the bottom of my dive chest to use for kayak diving it still worked and breathed fine save for needing new hoses. I cleaned it up, put new hoses and cage valves and away I went. It has been so totally trouble free that I am absolutely certain it alone is more reliable than a twin set of modern Apeks regulators or other plastic un-fantastics they pawn off as "tech" regulators. The tech community needs to insist on metal second stages and metal working parts and then they might have a start towards regulators that can function relaibly for oh, say, fifty years or so. When the one is so reliable, maybe, two are not needed?
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[rjack321]

Now I just have to figure out how to arrange the donatable reg on a long hose! (Where DO the RB guys route their donating regs?)

Most of them are diving solo. :mooner: