I love my Sherwood Oasis - Vintage is 1980-early 1990s - we have hundreds of dives together. I worried about something happening to it during our World travels, so I finally found a backup and bought it. (I do have an Oasis 2, Magnum, and a number of AL Conshelfs as well - the the Older Oasis is my favorite.)
I took it to my LDS and they checked it over and said it was so clean that they had to do nothing. However, at my first dive the air pressure gauge leaked, so I switched it out with another console/pressure gauge.*
Here's the question. So I switched the consoles around and after 2 dives the air pressure gauge had water in it and it was ruined - salt water in it and meter stuck straight up. Is this just coincidence or is it possible that something is wrong with my "new" backup Oasis that my LDS missed? Is there anyway a malfunctioning regulator could do this? I don't want to hook it up to another air pressure gauge to have it ruin that one.
Thank you.
* Later I fixed this pressure gauge - While I thought that it would be simply the replacement of a couple of little O-rings, it was actually the little 1 inch x 1/8 inch cylinder/rod that hold the O-rings that was broken - cost $6.00. Probably broke of age as I was hooking stuff up.
I took it to my LDS and they checked it over and said it was so clean that they had to do nothing. However, at my first dive the air pressure gauge leaked, so I switched it out with another console/pressure gauge.*
Here's the question. So I switched the consoles around and after 2 dives the air pressure gauge had water in it and it was ruined - salt water in it and meter stuck straight up. Is this just coincidence or is it possible that something is wrong with my "new" backup Oasis that my LDS missed? Is there anyway a malfunctioning regulator could do this? I don't want to hook it up to another air pressure gauge to have it ruin that one.
Thank you.
* Later I fixed this pressure gauge - While I thought that it would be simply the replacement of a couple of little O-rings, it was actually the little 1 inch x 1/8 inch cylinder/rod that hold the O-rings that was broken - cost $6.00. Probably broke of age as I was hooking stuff up.