Reg soaked with open port - need service?

[Quicksilver II]

I'm an idiot and soaked my Dive Rite XT2 with the low pressure inflator hose port empty/open. Just in the tub after a dive trip, not at depth.

Anyone have any idea if that's an issue?

 

[Jai Bar]

If you have a cylinder available, connect it and purge air through the regulator as soon as possible.

Can also try removing the hoses you can blow air through them.

 

[happy-diver]

There is valve in hose for water stop like from pushbike

 

[BoltSnap]

Better to have it checked including the pressure gauge and/or AI transmitter.

 

[tridacna]

I never soak my regulators in port, only brandy.

 

[Gone for diving]

I'm an idiot and soaked my Dive Rite XT2 with the low pressure inflator hose port empty/open. Just in the tub after a dive trip, not at depth.

Anyone have any idea if that's an issue?

You unthreaded the hose from the first stage?
Or the bcd quick connect was not hook up to the inflater..??

 

[lowwall]

You unthreaded the hose from the first stage?
Or the bcd quick connect was not hook up to the inflater..??

This is a crucial distinction. If it's the first and water could enter directly into an LP port on the first stage, then it needs to be opened up, dried out and checked for corrosion.

If it's the second, then you're fine unless you really worked at getting water up your hoses by pushing the purge on one of your second stages while swishing the regs around.

Edit: even if it was an open port, you should be fine following the advice in the next post if it was fresh water. But salt water will need proper cleaning.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Fresh water shouldn’t be a huge deal.
Undo the HP hose from the reg first before you repressurize it to clear out the water in the LP hoses. In most cases the water probably didn’t go past the pinhole in the reg body to get into the hose. If you think it got into the HP hose then undo the SPG/AI computer and blow air through it.
Don’t worry, it will be fine.

 

[Quicksilver II]

It was an open port in the first stage. No LP hose was attached. I had to borrow one and returned it right before I dropped everything in the tub.

Going to take it in just in case. I have a lot of redundancy but only have one first stage!

Appreciate the kind words. I'm learning, slowly but surely.

 

[Jai Bar]

I'm an idiot and soaked my Dive Rite XT2 with the low pressure inflator hose port empty/open. Just in the tub after a dive trip, not at depth.

Anyone have any idea if that's an issue?

Oh, just the inflator hose?

Then no worries, the inflator hose has a Schrader valve on the quick-disconnet side (the same in bicycle tubes and similar to car tires), so no water will seep into it. I usually soak my regs with the inflator hose disconnected.

A more common thing is forgetting to close the dust cap or the second stage immersed with the purge button pressed.