Dr. Lecter
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Or at least until the button comes shooting out during a dive and causing you to soil your drysuit
Green Loctite is your friend and mine. Still, not the end of the world if it does.
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Or at least until the button comes shooting out during a dive and causing you to soil your drysuit
With good user care, technician servicing may never be needed. The bladder should be drained and rinsed with FW occasionally. The inflator needs to be flushed with FW after each SW dive trip. Mine only gets more serious service when a problem (leak) occurs.
If you are doing a good rinse after every dive day there should be no need for scheduled professional service.
Keep an eye on things for worn pull dump strings and an wear and tear. The inflater valve will probably need attention every 100 dives or so. This little tool lets you get in there to clean and lube at the first sign of sluggishness or sooner.
Personally, I do not take any pull dump valves apart for routine service. Faithful rinsing has always kept them in good order and there are too many stories of mis-assembly, lost parts or even jumping in without reinstalling a valve.
Pete
I'll confess . . . I don't service my inflators until they begin to leak. Most of the time, it's a leak out around the inflator button, but once in a while, it's a slow leak into the wing. You can only rebuild the inflators a few times -- they're made of very soft brass, and you will eventually score it enough so the o-rings won't seal. But if you are using a standard wing, the replacements units from Trident are only about $35 or $40.
On sale! Put one in your save-a-dive and service the fussy one at your convenience
Or at least until the button comes shooting out during a dive and causing you to soil your drysuit
I dove that inflator for years never had an issue, odd how you get our hands n it and 30 mins into the dive it blows off.
It was rather funny
Steve
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Yeah probably user error. Or maybe the green locktite had worn out