Do You Service Your Own Regs?

[hunter991]

Sue,

Thanks for sending that manual, I received it and printed it. It should give me a good head start until I locate somewhere to take the class.

Thanks again.

Brent

 

[Reiger]

but if anyone knows a source for USD overhaul kit I would gladly appreciate it. The guy in Tulsa I trust doesn't normally deal with USD.

 

[jamiei]

you can find them on ebay

 

[plsdiver4377]

I would love to learn how to service my own regs. I do almost all of the service on my surveying equipment since it usually takes to long to get it back without paying a fortune in shipping (the stuff is heavy)and I always make sure its right before I use it in the field. :mean:

 

[Braunbehrens]

plsdiver4377 once bubbled...
I would love to learn how to service my own regs. I do almost all of the service on my surveying equipment since it usually takes to long to get it back without paying a fortune in shipping (the stuff is heavy)and I always make sure its right before I use it in the field. :mean:

check www.airspeedpress.com

 

[bruehlt]

Ok - where do I go for Oceanic parts / manuals? I just called the LDS here about getting my delta 4 reg serviced - they wanted somewhere along the lines of $100+ dollars! Absolutely crazy.....

Any ideas?

 

[Knavey]

Best bet is to look for the manuals and parts on Ebay unless you have underworld contacts within the dive community.

 

[ew1usnr]

Sometimes I have to repair my own stuff. My most recent example: My brothers auto-inflator was sticking and he asked me to drop it off at the dive shop to have it fixed. The dive shop called me a couple of days later and said that it was corroded together and couldn't be disassembled. They could sell me a new one for $30. I picked up the old one and took it home. I put a wrench on the nut that was supposed to be immoveable and it simply unscrewed. I pulled out the inflator button shaft, greased it with silicone, put it back together, and it works fine. It took two minutes.
On another recent instance, I took an old but functioning regulator set in (at another dive shop) to have overhauled. It worked fine, but it hadn't been overhauled in a long time and it seemed like a good idea. After about two months the dive shop gave it back to me as a bag of parts with a BS explanation of why it could not be repaired. I had to put it back together myself. It now works fine.
I have to be either buy new equipment everytime the dive shop tells me to, or I have to try to fix it myself.