Sherwood regs

[divindown]

Sherwood-------

Personally, I wouldn't buy one. With so many other regs on the market which perform great why buy a mediocre reg. Sure they are reliable. I would hope any company who didn't make a reliable reg would pull it off the market.

Just a question to think about if ever diving deep with a sherwood??? At what depth would the malfunctioning dry bleed, be pushed into the piston chamber?!??!? And take my word they do malfunction.

Research a different brand... Apeks, Atomic, ScubaPro, Oceanic...

Dacor..... Well ok forget DAcor.........lmao

 

[buff]

I would second Lost Yooper's recommendation of Apeks from www.diveinn.com.

There is no better reg. at DiveInns prices.

I dive with a TX50/TX40 combo often. I also dive with a Poseidon Odin. The latter is an unheard of price of $249.99 at LeisurePro

 

[Drew Sailbum]

The dry air bleed system is designed to use air pressure to apply ambient pressure to the first stage piston (rather than seawater). When properly maintained, the loss is 13-27ml per minute. At the surface that is approximately 1.5liters per hour.

The second stage on the Brut is not balanced, but that is significant only at tank pressures below 500psi. Remember that the first stage lowers tank pressure to approximately 145psi above ambient.

An Oasis second stage is basically a Brut with moisture retention fins added. Similarly, the Oasis first stage is essentially the same as a Brut but for the moveable orifice and one additional HP port.

 

[iainwilliams]

Originally posted by BadFish
I am thinking of getting a sherwod reg, but can't decide between the following:

The Brut
oasis
maximus
magnum

Anyone use these regs? what did you think?

thanks for the help

I used to use sherwood regs as school gear. They continually free flowed, especially in sandy conditions. The intermediate pressure on nearly all of them needed constant adjusting to stop the demand valve leaking air.

My opinion only based on operational school diving in sandy conditions. Iain

 

[SubMariner]

Iain,

I'm sorry to say that I would tend to think that the problems with the school gear you were using was improper maintenance and abuse. Or the wrong regs for the environment you were diving. ANY reg will misbehave it not treated & maintained properly, and the Sherwood is no exception.

I used a Sherwood Blizzard for approx 10 years in some of the nastiest, coldest Canadian conditions possible: 0 viz, sandy, muddy, silty, friggin' COLD water (one dive was only 34F). The reg worked just fine. In fact, the only time it free flowed was the very first dive with it. A quick adjustment by the dive shop shortly thereafter & the problem never re-asserted itself.

Although the Blizzard is Sherwood's cold water specific reg, it performs equally well in a wide range of dive conditions; I used it in cold fresh water & warm salt water & everything in between. Max depth I was down to with this reg was 120'.

Sherwood makes a reliable, easy to maintain piston balanced or unbalanced regulator that, by virtue of its positive bleed first stage, is essentially environmentally sealed. (In the case of the Blizzard, it is balanced.) Service & parts for this make are easy to find.

The only "con" with the Sherwood is that they are not really a high-performance reg. But they are solid & reliable.

DSDO,

~SubMariner~

 

[iainwilliams]

Hi Sub-Mariner;

Well I am certainly glad that your sherwood regs operated well!

I had 7 for training use, and as mentioned earlier spent considerable time "twicking" them for optimal preformance. I religiously looked after the gear, but it still was a pain in the butt. Even in non sandy conditions! Perhaps I had a bad run - who knows. I did buy them altogether as a lot. I ended up almost giving them away 2 years later.

I was in NO WAY stating that sherwood are a bad regulator, all I was saying is that I had problems with them using them in that particular scenario (training - which was mostly on Heron Island on the Barrier Reef).

I think it is important when writing on the board to give your view, especially if it comes from personal experience. This gives the thread opener (person who started the thread) a better idea with regard to preformance, reliablity, etc of the item in question. I think we both have done this.

Personally, I have a biass towards apex and zeagle regulators, BUT everyone has their personal preference and favourite for whatever means. Dive Safe....Iain

 

[MikeFerrara]

I have always found Sherwoods to be ok regs. We also have some for school regs. For a while we were having trouble with soft high presure seats that were not lasting very long. We even had bad seats on new regs. We also had bad seats on regs we sold not just regs used in training. Crammer and Decker (the ones who distribute Sherwood) was kind enough to send us a sh## load of seats at no charge. However, they were not kind enough to pay me for all the time I spent swapping out seats. I am not a member of their fan club.

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

Sherwood/Genesis have been making regulators and valves for over 150 yrs. Back then of course they made them for other applications like locamotives and machinery. They pretty much know what they are doing. It's ashame they went to those soft seats briefly. I'm a huge fan of Sherwood & Genesis. Peter Skopp Industries is the Distributor for the SouthEast, Carribean & South Americia. They will give us free parts on occasions too but your right...It's a pain to change all those suckers out for free.

 

[Lloyd]

Try a Sherwood and Apeks side by side. The Apeks is alot better. I own a Magnum, TX-50 DS4 and ATX-100.

Lloyd

 

[IyaDiver]

Hi Guys,

I don't see Sherwood regs very often they are not popular in my country.

There is a recall from Sherwood for their Maximus, if those not knowing of it go to :

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml02/02150.html

This might save ur life.

Hope this help.


IYA