Daniel M. Thomas
Contributor
Hi guys,
i dive an Apeks XTX200 but it came time for its first service and i was trying to decide if i should try some new regulators to try something new or just stick with the ones iv'e got and get them serviced, after reading alot on scubaboard a guy named Tbone wrote something about being able to make any regulator breathe effortlessly by tuning a regulator to the very edge, so i decided i'd take my Apeks XTX200 to the local dive shop (im from south london, UK), so i went to my LDS and asked the owner "Could you please service my regulators and tune them so they are on the very edge, so they breathe as easy as possible" he said he would. So i returned one week later to drop off my regulators and this time said the same thing, he must have forgot he spoke to me only a week before and told me something different - this time it was a totally different answer which i found strange, it was a stern"No" he replied, and explained that he would service them to the manufacturers specifications not how i had asked, and said if it breathes too easy i would use twice as much air as i normally would and also end up swallowing air rather than breathing it whilst i dive.
After telling me two different things, i don't really know what to leave..
i dive an Apeks XTX200 but it came time for its first service and i was trying to decide if i should try some new regulators to try something new or just stick with the ones iv'e got and get them serviced, after reading alot on scubaboard a guy named Tbone wrote something about being able to make any regulator breathe effortlessly by tuning a regulator to the very edge, so i decided i'd take my Apeks XTX200 to the local dive shop (im from south london, UK), so i went to my LDS and asked the owner "Could you please service my regulators and tune them so they are on the very edge, so they breathe as easy as possible" he said he would. So i returned one week later to drop off my regulators and this time said the same thing, he must have forgot he spoke to me only a week before and told me something different - this time it was a totally different answer which i found strange, it was a stern"No" he replied, and explained that he would service them to the manufacturers specifications not how i had asked, and said if it breathes too easy i would use twice as much air as i normally would and also end up swallowing air rather than breathing it whilst i dive.
After telling me two different things, i don't really know what to leave..