Service Scubapro Mk15

[oly5050user]

Thanks everyone!I can get the service kit for ~$25 & could service the gear with proper instructions & tools. As for the diving that I do, I mainly did (solo) wreck diving (although there were several trips to Giinny) so a BOTL reg won't cut-it. I won't jump straight back to deep dives, but I will get back there.I hope that I didn't miss anything...thanks!

---------- Post added September 22nd, 2015 at 07:59 AM ----------

I'll look into an IP gauge; it seems like a handy bit of kit!

You actually need 3 service kits. One for each stage.

 

[ScubaBros]

If you mail it to me, ill do both regs for $70 bucks parts included. I've got the parts in stock as well. And have rebuilt quite a few mk15s and a ton of g250s.

 

[akdeepdiver]

My shop will overhaul it for $30 labor plus parts and return shipping. Includes O2 cleaning. If you provide the service kits, we only charge shipping and labor. Yes, I am a trained SCubapro factory trained technician. PM or email me if interested.
Myles

 

[ScubaBros]

If you are truly a scubapro tech, then you should know better than to use parts that are not bought through scubapro.

 

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If you are truly a scubapro tech, then you should know better than to use parts that are not bought through scubapro.

Please tell us more. What is wrong with a sealed Scubapro kit obtained from some source other than your distributor?

 

[ScubaBros]

If you are a do-it-yourself-er NOTHING. If you are a factory tech getting paid to work on what is considered life support equipment and use a parts kit not bought from scubapro, and there is a parts failure, good luck proving you used a sealed factory kit. Scubapro parts are not supposed to be sold to individuals in the US. So what other distubutor is there other than Scubapro? I have serviced plenty of regs with completely wrong parts inside of them. Not that the regs were not useable but they were not what scubapro would consider correct parts from a legal standpoint if there was an o ring failure on say a piston o ring if I was the one that put a non scubapro part into a customers reg. Sooooooooo at the end of the day scubapro techs are required to use scubapro parts bought from scubapro. Not grey market or black market parts legally speaking.

 

[Tbar]

...I have serviced plenty of regs with completely wrong parts inside of them. Not that the regs were not useable but they were not what scubapro would consider correct parts from a legal standpoint if there was an o ring failure on say a piston o ring if I was the one that put a non scubapro part into a customers reg.

Were "completely wrong parts" or just not provided by Scubapro? Is this O-rings? They may well be the same spec as Scubapro provided and hence the same part, Scubapro use standard O-rings, just with some surface colour.

The only o-ring fail I have had has been with the genuine Scubapro provided HP Piston o-ring. I now have an OEM o-ring and it works.

Does every o-ring come from a manufacturer's kit - SPG, Tank value, hoses. Many of these are routinely replaced in the field as 'save a dive' and standard O-rings are used.

 

[ScubaBros]

Once again, I havent said one negative against a person fixing a regulator themselves with whatever they want to. I have only stated that Scubapro requires repairs to be made on thier regs with parts bought from them. It is a brand policy. I doubt any equipment manufacturer tells their techs in training to use whatever parts people bring them.

 

[halocline]

Scubabros is just giving the standard liability argument. SP has been using that one for years. The reality is that for the user, as long as quality parts are used, there's zero difference. For a dive shop in business, there are financial issues, like being hung out to dry by the manufacturer that provides your inventory because you didn't follow their agreement. We do live in a litigious society, and one that wrongly believes that scuba regulators are somehow "life support." Of course, anyone with a brain and some decent scuba training understands that ALL safe diving practices involve contingency for equipment failure and OOA scenarios. So nobody has ever been killed because their regulator failed. If this were widely understood, the liability issue with servicing regulators would be minimal.

Guess who's to blame for this? It's the scuba gear industry, that keeps waving this idiotic "life support" flag in order to sell more expensive regulators and control access to parts. And they brazenly do this while teaching, at the same shop by the same people, about air sharing, buddy system, CESA, etc....all things that clearly indicate that regulator failure is not life threatening.

 

[redacted]

If you are a do-it-yourself-er NOTHING. If you are a factory tech getting paid to work on what is considered life support equipment and use a parts kit not bought from scubapro, and there is a parts failure, good luck proving you used a sealed factory kit. Scubapro parts are not supposed to be sold to individuals in the US. So what other distubutor is there other than Scubapro? I have serviced plenty of regs with completely wrong parts inside of them. Not that the regs were not useable but they were not what scubapro would consider correct parts from a legal standpoint if there was an o ring failure on say a piston o ring if I was the one that put a non scubapro part into a customers reg. Sooooooooo at the end of the day scubapro techs are required to use scubapro parts bought from scubapro. Not grey market or black market parts legally speaking.

Is this "policy" established in written contract (dealer agreement)?