Dacor reg identity

[MidwestSteve]

Anyone know the year of these regs and the model of the 2nd stage that doesn't say pacer?

 

[John C. Ratliff]

The Dacor Pacer series was around 1979-80. The Olympic second stage was somewhere around 1977, and that is your mystery second stage. Both are very good regulators.

SeaRat

 

[MidwestSteve]

Thanks man! They both still work great. If only that first stage had another lp port I would maybe use it. I use both the seconds from time to time though. Appreciate the shared knowledge!

 

[USdiver1]

Dacor Pacers are great regulators. That said, finding parts for them is getting harder every day. I sold my Pacer some years ago because of that. If you can secure some dive shop's parts inventory you might be ok, short of that, and you'll have a nice paper weight the next time you need to repair or rebuild it.

 

[DMDavid]

They look like they've seen some hard use or were never well taken care of.
I have a few Dacor Pacers that look nearly new but I'm the original owner and I always took good care of them.
Unfortunately they are more of a museum piece now since the rebuild parts are extremely hard to get a hold of.

 

[diversteve]

The first stage is (obviously) a Pacer 300. There was also a 900/950 series and XL versions of some of them. I bought a 900 in 1981 new but as mentioned sold it when Mares bought Dacor and parts became hard to find soon after.