My New Twins--How To Make Authentic?

[Sam Miller III]

1. Your labels are totally wrong for 1967
The 1967 labels were red white and blue on a sheild with "Swimaster" as the main focus.

2. The solid bar yoke or the earler model with the curl in it was called a pig tail. Very common in the Orange County California area where he lives...so correct for the area.

I personally like pig tails and used them the majority of my diving career. The only draw back is the possiblity of water migration, so a word of caution.

3) Yes I like Nemrod! He is a god fellow and very knowledgeable --- stuck in a diving desert == a place called Kans Asss.

SDM

 

[captain]

At the very least I wouldn't use the cheater bar with a single band, use at least two to prevent twisting.

 

[JamesBon92007]

I'm not sure if you guys realize these are not my tanks. I was using them as an example from the era. Apparently the info about the tanks is wrong as I did not see any such Voit emblems on any tanks in Thunderball. My manifold is the regular, one piece kind and I would have serious reservations about diving with the kind pictured. From what I have seen (in the movie) the tanks should be white with the Voit Lung labels. However, since the tanks are Voit and the Manifold is US Divers I could perhaps paint them yellow and put an Aqua Lung sticker on them. I kinda like the Voit Lung idea better plus they would go with my old Voit swim vest. I just want to paint them (or, my third choice would be to leave them galvanized and add the Voit label) and want to make sure they are authentic for what they are and when they were made.

I found two places showing old tank labels but couldn't find any way to buy them. Anyone have a source for buying them?


I'll be more careful in the future about posting pics with backward regulators and questionable valves.

BTW Good Guys have white tanks and single-hose regulators and Bad Guys have black tanks and double-hose regulators. I think I'll go with white tanks because Bon means good, but perhaps throw on a doublehose reg cause, after all, I'm not that good.

 

[Nemrod]

I'll be more careful in the future about posting pics with backward regulators and questionable valves.

We know where you live and there is a bad, bad man on our payroll . He has these strange metal teeth and all like that.

Karl makes various Voit labels, I think some of his are in the vdh store. Put up a post there, most of the vintage community NEVER comes over here for fear of catching something penicillin would be required for. Only a few of us are sufficiently inoculated against Fundi-itous fiberosis and GUEmeba plastosis to come here without fear.

Which Voit decal is it you want?

N

 

[JamesBon92007]

We know where you live and there is a bad, bad man on our payroll . He has these strange metal teeth and all like that.


Which Voit decal is it you want?

N

No doubt he has black tanks and a doublehose regulator.

I'm looking for the Voit Lung (blue and white) with the big V. I looked at VTH but didn't see any way to buy them.

 

[Nemrod]

No doubt he has black tanks and a doublehose regulator.

I'm looking for the Voit Lung (blue and white) with the big V. I looked at VTH but didn't see any way to buy them.

You have to get them from Karl, once in a while he puts some on eBait as well.

I would go and see if I have a set but alas, they are in the basement and I cannot get to the basement with a broken leg and my wife has no idea where to look and I think I am not sure I want her to look and see what all is in my dive/bike/gun/telescope shop.

N

 

[JamesBon92007]

Probably better not to risk breaking the other leg. According to Sam Miller I have my label info all screwed up anyway. Since the movie was made in '66 I thought it most likely had the most current, up-to-date equipment and logos because, after all, Voit put all that stuff in the movie so they could sell more stuff. Perhaps the shield/Swimaster logo didn't read as well as the Big V.

 

[Sam Miller III]

No doubt he has black tanks and a doublehose regulator.

I'm looking for the Voit Lung (blue and white) with the big V. I looked at VTH but didn't see any way to buy them.

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Not correct for 1967!

See and read my earlier posts

sdm