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.