O-Ring Maintenance GoPro Dive Housing?

[leo8877]

Hey all, I recently got the GoPro dive housing and am planning on using it for an upcoming trip to Hawaii. I am wondering what kind of maintenance you all perform for the O-ring in this housing. I have 2 Canon Powershot cameras and underwater cases that I regularly take out and clean and apply silicone grease to. Do you all do this with the GoPro housing as well?

Thanks in advance!

 

[flareside]

Rinse the ring and clean the groove but use no grease. Beyond that, visually inspect the seal as you close it back up.

 

[leo8877]

Rinse the ring and clean the groove but use no grease. Beyond that, visually inspect the seal as you close it back up.

Thank you!

 

[ouscubagrad]

why should you avoid silicon grease?

*edit* I didn't mean that to come across as flip...I have wondered myself about seal maintenance and was wondering it I should treat it like all other seals I use diving, where you lubricate them with silicon grease.

What harm would be done by using silicon grease?

 

[avigulf]

No harm would be done,_BUT_silicon grease will easier take up/ hold dust and small particles on the o-ring, like on your dry-suit zipper ( if you use one). And it will be harder to clean the o-ring.

 

[flareside]

Silicone grease can also cause some types of seals to swell. Don't know if it will happen with GoPro seals but they are definitely a different material composition than the regular camera seals so who knows how they will behave with it.