Which gear is the same as which other gear?

[tbone1004]

I service both 1st and 2nd last month with OEM kits. You saying they’ve outsourced manufacturing?

You still can't get the repair manuals or take the course though even if you can get the kits. The dealers aren't supposed to be selling the kits though so I wouldn't publish who you got them from.

Their regulators no longer qualify for "Made in USA", I promise, if they could use put that on their marketing material they would, same with Oceanic/Hollis. Some of their manufacturing has been sent overseas from the same companies that OEM for many other manufacturers.

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

You still can't get the repair manuals or take the course though even if you can get the kits. The dealers aren't supposed to be selling the kits though so I wouldn't publish who you got them from.

Their regulators no longer qualify for "Made in USA", I promise, if they could use put that on their marketing material they would, same with Oceanic/Hollis. Some of their manufacturing has been sent overseas from the same companies that OEM for many other manufacturers.

I guess this maybe deceiving:
Atomic Aquatics established Atomica R&D, our own private manufacturing facility, located in the hotbed of leading-edge Southern California aerospace and technology firms. Atomica proudly follows California’s strict environmental and recycling standards to produce high-performance dive equipment. While others outsource to third-world countries, Atomic Aquatics’s critical components are produced and assembled here under our stringent criteria.

 

[tbone1004]

I guess this maybe deceiving:
Atomic Aquatics established Atomica R&D, our own private manufacturing facility, located in the hotbed of leading-edge Southern California aerospace and technology firms. Atomica proudly follows California’s strict environmental and recycling standards to produce high-performance dive equipment. While others outsource to third-world countries, Atomic Aquatics’s critical components are produced and assembled here under our stringent criteria.

Please note the usage of "critical components", that is important. That does not qualify as Made in USA...

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

Please note the usage of "critical components", that is important. That does not qualify as Made in USA...

Do you think parts of the T3 maybe made in China? How disappointing that would be.

 

[tbone1004]

Do you think parts of the T3 maybe made in China? How disappointing that would be.

not China, but close to it...

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

Wonder if the Scubapro A700 case is made overseas.

 

[tbone1004]

Wonder if the Scubapro A700 case is made overseas.

Scubapro doesn't manufacture in the US...

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

Screw it... I’m changing to Apeks...

 

[Open Ocean Diver]

Scubapro doesn't manufacture in the US...

Do you know it the A700 is made in Italy?

 

[tbone1004]

Do you know it the A700 is made in Italy?

I'm not sure where the bodies are made.

On the Apeks front, you can't get service kits officially from them either, and because they're made in the UK, their chrome plating is vastly inferior to the PVD used by companies like Deep 6.