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I have been diving with a ScubaPro MK25 Reg for the past few years. I love everything about it except the black plastic Cap designed to protect the top access to the reg.
Each year, after service, the cap falls off under normal use. I looked closely at it, and realized that the cap is held to the main unit via three plastic outcroppings designed to clamp around a "Cylidrical Lip" or rim on the 1st stage. It is my opinion that you cannot remove this cap without shearing material from one or more of these outcroppings, thus leaving it loosely attached when re-assembled. I have gone to various dealers(depending on my dive locations to get a new replacement) after the cap finally falls off, each year.
The other day, I went to a dealer to ask if there have been any changes in this design and to get a new cap. The dealer boasted that he services 100's of MK25's each year and he has never had one complaint. I challenged him to pull a cap off of a reg and demonstrate how he takes it off. He proceeded to pull/force it off with his hand and handed the cap to me. Low and Behold, it was then damaged by the removal. I showed him and he acted "surprised".
Do any other MK25 owners have this complaint. This cap and it's general design are very poorly thought-out. The reg poses no safety issue without the cap, but the principle of the matter is: It should not fall off a $900.00 reg package, that is supposedly one of the best made.
It's like buying a Farrari and having a bumper fall off every time you get an oil change.
Can someone share any thoughts on this matter? Scubapro has not changed their design or done anything about it to help their consumers concerning this matter. I bought it because it is "A Reg for LIFE".
Sorry ScubaPro, your engineers almost made the perfect reg.....
This, along with a couple other issues with my BC and my depth gauge have fallen on def ears at the mother ship. WHY???????????????
I'd leave the Cap off, but it looks like garbage and, well, it's just supposed to be there.
Any thoughts from my fellow hardcore divers demanding promised quality?
Each year, after service, the cap falls off under normal use. I looked closely at it, and realized that the cap is held to the main unit via three plastic outcroppings designed to clamp around a "Cylidrical Lip" or rim on the 1st stage. It is my opinion that you cannot remove this cap without shearing material from one or more of these outcroppings, thus leaving it loosely attached when re-assembled. I have gone to various dealers(depending on my dive locations to get a new replacement) after the cap finally falls off, each year.
The other day, I went to a dealer to ask if there have been any changes in this design and to get a new cap. The dealer boasted that he services 100's of MK25's each year and he has never had one complaint. I challenged him to pull a cap off of a reg and demonstrate how he takes it off. He proceeded to pull/force it off with his hand and handed the cap to me. Low and Behold, it was then damaged by the removal. I showed him and he acted "surprised".
Do any other MK25 owners have this complaint. This cap and it's general design are very poorly thought-out. The reg poses no safety issue without the cap, but the principle of the matter is: It should not fall off a $900.00 reg package, that is supposedly one of the best made.
It's like buying a Farrari and having a bumper fall off every time you get an oil change.
Can someone share any thoughts on this matter? Scubapro has not changed their design or done anything about it to help their consumers concerning this matter. I bought it because it is "A Reg for LIFE".
Sorry ScubaPro, your engineers almost made the perfect reg.....
This, along with a couple other issues with my BC and my depth gauge have fallen on def ears at the mother ship. WHY???????????????
I'd leave the Cap off, but it looks like garbage and, well, it's just supposed to be there.
Any thoughts from my fellow hardcore divers demanding promised quality?
