Regulator inspection/refurb costs?

[Ready4Launch]

What's everyone paying their distributor or LDS for regulator servicing on 1st / 2nd / octo? Don't care about differences in cost from region to region. What do you pay?

Don't care what brand/model you've got, although am curious to know what Atomic owners cough up.

Thanks!

 

[AlexL]

$20 labor + parts per stage is the going rate locally IF the gear was bought from the LDS. if 3rd party sale, $30 + parts per stage. not sure what parts run, as our reg service has been within parts for life coverage ... so far. just dropped a pair of mk25/s600s off last week which are not covered, so i'm not looking forward to that bill.

 

[buddhasummer]

Over here in Japan it's around $150 plus parts. I don't pay that.

 

[guruboy]

$100-150 total for regular service, full setup.

Inspection free.

 

[KeithG]

grumpy old man here...

Your post title is a bit misleading. Are you grumpy too? Maybe you need to be more clear about inspection vs service - this topic is a bit of a hobby horse for me. Your title refers to inspection but your post body seems to fixate on service costs. In my world inspection and service are very different.

I inspect my own regulators for free. Every dive trip. Service costs only happen if my free inspection warrants some servicing. I claim that learning to inspect our own gear is not that hard. If you are capable, then SB has lots of peeps to help you out.

Based on this I pay my LDS nothing for "regular serving" as I do not believe that to be necessary (I used to drink the Koolaid and had my regs screwed up several times).

Regular inspection IS required.

I perform my own regular inspection. So far very little need for servicing. Since I stopped letting my LDS regularly screw with my regs I have spent about $30 on service kit parts in the last 5 years (around 200 salt water dives). If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

YMMV.

 

[undrwater]

Yeah, like the above. If you're looking for justification for self service, you've found it.

 

[rhwestfall]

$25-$35/stage for labor + parts for a "normal" service.

A major rebuild and "update" of my Poseidon technical set (two firsts, 2 seconds) just set me back $500!

 

[Caveeagle]

A major rebuild and "update" of my Poseidon technical set (two firsts, 2 seconds) just set me back $500!

Just out of curiosity... Who did the work? And what were these "updates"?

 

[Bob DBF]

Regulator inspection

Regulator Inspection and Checklist (Rev-7)

at the top of the reg forum

Thanks couv

Bob

 

[Lorenzoid]

After years of spending over $100 for service every year or two of a reg set--hundreds and hundreds of dollars for a reg set that didn't cost that much to begin with--I finally learned to service my own.