KD8NPB
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I just scored a job at the local dive shop / boat store. They have been operation since 1956, and they have equipment that reflects it. I'll try to get some pictures of the shop once i get it cleaned up to my liking, that have quite a bit of old stock / vintage trade-ins / interesting local discoveries on the walls.
Long story short though, they have a surplus of tanks. Tanks upon tanks. I guess they did a tank trade-in program a while back, but never did scrap them. Going through them, most of them are the bad alloy Aluminum tanks. There are a few LP72s, some ancient 1/2" thread tanks... But the one that caught my interest the most, is they have a Voit 50 in superb condition.
Now, I'm currently running twin LP72s. My dislike though is the size and weight, although I do love the gas benefit and weight distribution of it. But, I'm going to be getting some proper tech SS 6.9 bands and isolating manifold for my LP72s so I can use them for "tech training". At the same time though, I'm going to have my Dacor backpack which is set up for twin 6.9 tanks, as well as a perfectly good functioning J-valve manifold... I kinda like having smaller doubles as opposed to one big single.
So I'm thinking, twin 50s? I can run it as a single in the mean time, maybe make it my summer rig for the many sub-40 ft dives out here. I'll have to negotiate something with the shop manager... I think he'd prefer to see gear get used rather than take up space next to the filler whips.
I'll have to get pictures of the compressor shack too. The low pressure cascade is impressive, someodd 20-30 tanks. Compressor is an IR Type 30 10T2 and has a 3-ph motor that actually exceeds the suggested rating for the compressor.
Long story short though, they have a surplus of tanks. Tanks upon tanks. I guess they did a tank trade-in program a while back, but never did scrap them. Going through them, most of them are the bad alloy Aluminum tanks. There are a few LP72s, some ancient 1/2" thread tanks... But the one that caught my interest the most, is they have a Voit 50 in superb condition.
Now, I'm currently running twin LP72s. My dislike though is the size and weight, although I do love the gas benefit and weight distribution of it. But, I'm going to be getting some proper tech SS 6.9 bands and isolating manifold for my LP72s so I can use them for "tech training". At the same time though, I'm going to have my Dacor backpack which is set up for twin 6.9 tanks, as well as a perfectly good functioning J-valve manifold... I kinda like having smaller doubles as opposed to one big single.
So I'm thinking, twin 50s? I can run it as a single in the mean time, maybe make it my summer rig for the many sub-40 ft dives out here. I'll have to negotiate something with the shop manager... I think he'd prefer to see gear get used rather than take up space next to the filler whips.
I'll have to get pictures of the compressor shack too. The low pressure cascade is impressive, someodd 20-30 tanks. Compressor is an IR Type 30 10T2 and has a 3-ph motor that actually exceeds the suggested rating for the compressor.
