No offence taken.
My point is take care of your gear and it will(should) take care of you.
If its a 199.00 Aqualung, that topo' the line Atomic or that e-bay find so be it.
Ease of breathing does cost more no matter how you slice it.
As an x-shop, repair person/sales/mgr. my time is worth money as is yours.
We set our repair prices to be the same as if you sent it to usd/tusa/sp/whom ever to be fixed and would do pretrip checks on our customers gear N/C.
I would also tell people that didn't want to service their gear "don't go deeper than you want to swim up if you lose track of your buddy and have a failure."
In 20+plus years I saw alot of failure and a lot of cobwebs in 2nd stages.
My point is take care of your gear and it will(should) take care of you.
If its a 199.00 Aqualung, that topo' the line Atomic or that e-bay find so be it.
Ease of breathing does cost more no matter how you slice it.
As an x-shop, repair person/sales/mgr. my time is worth money as is yours.
We set our repair prices to be the same as if you sent it to usd/tusa/sp/whom ever to be fixed and would do pretrip checks on our customers gear N/C.
I would also tell people that didn't want to service their gear "don't go deeper than you want to swim up if you lose track of your buddy and have a failure."
In 20+plus years I saw alot of failure and a lot of cobwebs in 2nd stages.