Need tips for installing power inflator o-rings

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SaltyWombat

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I bought a kit of o-rings to service a power inflator. Getting the new o-rings on has been a challenge. I can't seem to get the small 006 o-rings installed on the small internal stem. I'm using a plastic pick, but I have a set of 3 brass picks I could try.

I have 2 bullets for installing o-rings on LP and HP hoses. Those are great. Are there similar ones for power inflators? Or, is there a tool I should use besides a plastic pick?

Any tips welcomed.
 
Quite some people here don't like to work with SS Picks, because they are worried to scratch the chrome surface of the regs or parts.
I like to use them, because the steel is very thin and strong.
Especially for the removal or installation of small o-rings they work for me best.
For the stubborn o-rings on the inflator stems I wouldn't know anything else to use.
 

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I'll use a thin, sharp brass pick and slip it between the oring and shaft. I push it so the point is way past the o-ring, and then use the shaft of the pick as a lever to wind the o-ring over the ridge into the land in a spiral motion.
No, there's no good bullet for these yet.
 
I was under the impression that it was better to replace as opposed to rebuild the inflator?

Do you guys rebuild them?
 
Depends upon the brand...
 
I was under the impression that it was better to replace as opposed to rebuild the inflator?
...as a matter of fact, I have a new one with your name on it. PM me and we'll talk $ :-D
 
...as a matter of fact, I have a new one with your name on it. PM me and we'll talk $ :-D

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I just have the common K inflator used by Halcyon and others. I assumed rebuilding it was worthwhile.

Idk.. I've read on here a lot just replace. They're inexpensive, $18 @ DGX, and that's the 1st place I looked.

If others do differently please share. I hate throwing away anything that can be re-used. I still have a leaking inflator sitting on the work bench.
 
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Idk.. I've read on here a lot just replace. They're inexpensive, $18 @ DGX, and that's the 1st place I looked.

If others do differently please share. I hate throwing away anything that can be re-used. I still have a leaking inflator sitting on the work bench.
They are easy to rebuild. I carry several rebuilt ones on a group dive trip, switch them out for folks, and bting their's back to rebuild for the next person.
 

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