Reg soaked with open port - need service?

[Madden’s78]

I never soak my regulators in port, only brandy.

Brandy she is a fine girl. What a good wife she could be.

 

[Micko1974]

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.

I think he had disconnected a borrowed hose from the first stage.

 

[jellycatsdad]

Something similar happened to me, I stupidly rinsed my regs with the dust cap off. Thankfully, it was with tap water so chlorine/chloramine and fluoride vs. salt and other nasty things. I put my regs back onto a tank, and purged them for a good minute.

So far, my IP is stable at 142psi(Mares specs a higher than usual IP) with crisp lockup. No verdigris in the inlet filter.