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I heard you can take a good quality compressor, drain the oil and put a special kind in to breath off of? is this true or should one buy a dive compressor
Eeek! Not really. To be able to breath from it, you need lots of specialized filtration to bring the compressor effluent to Grade E. That's what makes a dive compressor. Buying a packaged low pressure dive compressor is far less expensive than trying to make a shop compressor into a dive compressor.
The guy probably thought that the breathing air filter system for supplied air resporators built for sand blasting, which is usually run off a standard construction compressor, would work for diving.
Saddly it will not, you are better off getting a diving compressor from Lister like the 5120 so you will have clean air (run a filter after the compressor anyway) and the pressure you need. Remember you need about 4 to 5 standard cubic feet per minute in the pressure range of your breathing system + bottom pressure for the depth.
well sterling there are alot of indian, and geoduck, sea cucumber, sea urchin divers in pugeot sound, they will buy a brand new compressor like emglo and put breathing oil in it. make sure if gas operated the hose is routed so muffler does not melt line and cut off air. alot of hull cleaners use oiless compressors.
Just buy a compressor that is made for underwater for peace of mind. Yet you will see all kinds of getups on the marina docks.
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