Regulator service

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It is clearly possible for fine sand to cause the damage described with a balanced 2nd. And the common design for such a balance chamber is just vulnerable to that problem. I believe the single o-ring design is the norm and was used by scubapro for at least 20 years. Even the 2 o-ring design does not entirely cure the problem. It just provides 2 fences that have to be breached instead of one. So it should just take more time for the problem to materialize.

I don't believe anyone is still making an unbalanced adjustable barrel poppet 2nd. Performance is in the same ballpark as the balanced design and it eliminated the vulnerability of the balance chamber. I really like my old Scubapro R109s. Closest thing now would probably be the Oceanic Delta which is a user adjustable classic downstream design

 

[mweitz]

You dive behind someone like Ben who kicks up a lot of silt and you will have to service your regulators more often. Try to dive NEXT to him, and keep out of that silt trail he leaves. eyebrow

Mark

 

[Ben_ca]

 

[limeyx]

As far as a dive at Monastery being the culprit.... I say that would be a big no.

For the people out there not familiar with Nor Cal beaches Monastery is more like a pebble beach. Large grains of course sand.

I had more sand in all kinds of places after last weeks monastery dive than any other dive I have done. In my regs, my camera housing latches, all over my BC etc. etc.

to top it all off, the vis sucked too