My wife dives with a Oceanic EOS / FDX10 setup and I use an 212 / DC1 config. The EOS is probably 11 months old and my 212 just under 7 months old. Effectively they are the same second stage.
A few weeks ago the EOS went in for its annual service prematurely due to a free flowing issue. The tech working on it had major issues in getting the front screw on cover off all but destroying it in the process.... off to Oceanic it goes. Last week my 212 went in with the same issue plus a badly adjusted crack pressue from new. Guess what ... appears my reg had suffered the same fate, although I am told it did not go back, but rather parts were salvaged from a previously decomissioned 212
The Eos as a reg is now a little over 18 months old in Aus and I am curious if the experience I am having with 2 second stages (in their apparent inability to be dismantled without self destruction) is unique or becoming the norm. Would I expect that Oceanic / Hollis are about to get a barrage of damaged 2nd stages coming from their LDS.
BTW: Both regs are maticulously cleaded after each dive so abuse or misuse is not the cause for the probs.
A few weeks ago the EOS went in for its annual service prematurely due to a free flowing issue. The tech working on it had major issues in getting the front screw on cover off all but destroying it in the process.... off to Oceanic it goes. Last week my 212 went in with the same issue plus a badly adjusted crack pressue from new. Guess what ... appears my reg had suffered the same fate, although I am told it did not go back, but rather parts were salvaged from a previously decomissioned 212
The Eos as a reg is now a little over 18 months old in Aus and I am curious if the experience I am having with 2 second stages (in their apparent inability to be dismantled without self destruction) is unique or becoming the norm. Would I expect that Oceanic / Hollis are about to get a barrage of damaged 2nd stages coming from their LDS.
BTW: Both regs are maticulously cleaded after each dive so abuse or misuse is not the cause for the probs.