jbm
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Which do you use??.........Why do you prefer it as opposed to the others??......How big and heavy are the OMS/Diverite valves??...
thanks in advance; jbm
thanks in advance; jbm
P-valves again with a poll......
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This has already been discussed at length in different forums. You can see the valves by going to the websites.
The Halcyon has a bolt that some feel is needed to lock down the valve. The OMS is larger, but has 3 safety devices. The weight doesn't make any difference in the water.
MD
The Halcyon has a bolt that some feel is needed to lock down the valve. The OMS is larger, but has 3 safety devices. The weight doesn't make any difference in the water.
MD
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And anyhow you forgot an option for "homebuilt".
Funny how in the old days everyone just threw these together from about $5 worth of hardware store fittings. You could find plans on the net on how to build them, and if anyone had suggested it might be better to buy a ready made one that cost any more than a six pack of beer everyone they would have been laughed out of the place.
Then the tech gear companies started making them, the plans vanished from the net, and suddenly a p-valve was $60-100 instead of $5.
Most of my buddies still use the homebuilts. Not much to say about them, except they work exactly like the commercial ones.
Funny how in the old days everyone just threw these together from about $5 worth of hardware store fittings. You could find plans on the net on how to build them, and if anyone had suggested it might be better to buy a ready made one that cost any more than a six pack of beer everyone they would have been laughed out of the place.
Then the tech gear companies started making them, the plans vanished from the net, and suddenly a p-valve was $60-100 instead of $5.
Most of my buddies still use the homebuilts. Not much to say about them, except they work exactly like the commercial ones.
I use the Halcyon balanced. I haven't tried any of the others.
Some of the guys I dive with have made about everything for themselves from plates to canister lights. I don't make much of my stuff because it's TIME that is at a premium not money although I could use more of that too. A full time job plus running a business plus a house and kids means I wouldn't find the time to go to the store to look for the parts let alone do anything with them. Well, I could give up dive time to build dive equipment. If I did take the time there are a thousand more profitable and worthwhile things I could do than make a pee valve like the 8 million undone tasks in the shop or painting the house which I started two years ago. If you have the time you can save a fortune.
Some of the guys I dive with have made about everything for themselves from plates to canister lights. I don't make much of my stuff because it's TIME that is at a premium not money although I could use more of that too. A full time job plus running a business plus a house and kids means I wouldn't find the time to go to the store to look for the parts let alone do anything with them. Well, I could give up dive time to build dive equipment. If I did take the time there are a thousand more profitable and worthwhile things I could do than make a pee valve like the 8 million undone tasks in the shop or painting the house which I started two years ago. If you have the time you can save a fortune.
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