You Know you're a DIY Diver When

[spectrum]

You go to Wal-Mart and all of the carriage seat belts remind you what you could do with all that webbing and Fastex connectors.

 

[mike_s]

when you show up at a dive site with a pony bottle that used to be a fire extingisher....

 

[dlndavid]

you make your scuba tanks from old welding tanks
you use washing machine parts to make your bp/w.

 

[Charlie99]

You know you're a DIY diver after you spend lots of time to build something that you can buy for half the price at the LDS ................. and you're happy about it. :banana:

 

[OE2X]

You start looking at stainless steel countertops and think - what a waste and how much better they would be as backplates.

 

[mike_s]

7.) When the hose on your home-made-rebreather says "Hoover Vaccum"

 

[M_Bipartitus]

When you pick up a regulator and think "This wouldn't be that hard to make... only a few moving parts... the pressure isn't that high... hmmm high pressure... could make a fiberglass 4500psi tank while i'm at it...."

 

[divad]

when you use NO-Hub gem caps for light lens covers and guage wrist boots.

 

[do it easy]

When your projects involve drinking a beer while wearing safety glasses.

 

[Rick Inman]

... when your soldering iron has a permanent black crust around it.