Another new Gizmo, Valve Flusher

[cool_hardware52]

Now can you design something so that I can rinse out the inside of my BC without getting soaked?

The valve flusher allows you to add water to your bc via the power inflator. You will still need to be careful when you dump it out, avoid holding the OPV over your shoes.

Tobin

 

[Adobo]

I shore dive in So Cal. That means sand in places it was never intended to be.

I have always made a practice of flushing, or trying to flush fresh water through my power inflator "add" valve and through my drysuit inflate valve.

Usually I just hold the end of the garden hose over the nipple and hope some of the flow actually goes through the valve. This sort of works.

Then I got the idea of taking an old LP hose and via the magic of thread cutting lathes, connect a female garden hose adapter on the "regulator" end of the hose.

Bingo! Very handy. Just click on the nipple of either the power inflator or Drysuit inflator and push nice, clean, salt free water through these potentially finicky valves.

Others might want these I thought, but the cost of a LP hose assembly + special 3/8 x 24 to 1/2 npt adapter + garden hose adapter would make it about $40. Bummer.

What was needed was a device that would accept a male garden hose on one end and fit onto to an inflator QD nipple on the other.

Here it is.

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/82036/limit/recent

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/82037/limit/recent

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/82035/limit/recent

This part is molded out of a fairly stiff durometer elastomer. It has threads in the big hex end to screw onto a garden hose.

On the other end just pushes onto the nipple. There is a "oring" like feature in this end of the hose that engages the groove in the inflator nipple. This "snap fit" makes the Valve Flusher self retaining up to about 100 psi water pressure.

The small ball shut off valve makes the flusher easy to use, and provides a secure attachment to the garden hose. Many garden hose ends are imperfect (beat up) and the shut off valve has a replaceable washer.

I don't yet have final pricing, but I hope to offer the shutoff valve and Valve flusher for about $12.

Tobin

Put me on the waiting list please.

Also, if you ever come out with a tool that unscrews the core out of a generic inflator mechanism, I'd like one of those too. (I bought new inflators and new cores - they all were sticky out of the box and required a little lubing. LDS makes faces at me when I ask to borrow their tool. And no one seems to sell the tool to the general public.)

 

[lyonsce]

I want one two when they are available Tobin. Another great idea!! Please let us know when we can order........

 

[Jim Lapenta]

I'm in as well!

 

[judestudio]

Me too, me too! I was thinking hard of getting a set of weight plates and another harness for my other Kydex travel plate. So guess this is a good time to get them all at once when the flusher becomes available! Keep us posted, Tobin!

 

[Major Restriction]

Please bring some of these gadgets to DEMA for purchase.

 

[cool_hardware52]

Come and get 'um

https://www.deepseasupply.com/index.php?product=1301

Should be shipping Wednesday.

Tobin

 

[Blox]

Now can you design something so that I can rinse out the inside of my BC without getting soaked?

That exists already - it's called "drysuit"