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Al, they adjusts with a metric hex instead of a screwdriver - they
operate just like a G250 inside. The problem is not the seconds, it is
that the poseidens creep, but slowly. The o-ring under the seat gets
hard, and any dirt in the reg mugs the piston to where it does this.

The thing will operate somewhat properly up to about 190 psi before it
ff's, and then the i pressure of the posieden drops back and it just
hisses. This fooled me a bunch of times where I kept changing out the
second until I threw a guage on it and saw it first hand.

Due to the shape of the poseiden piston, like a little pecker, and the
seat, like a , well, nevermind ( they are Swedish ), it rarely just cuts
loose and freeflows full tilt boogie.


ajmarve@ba*.ne* wrote:
> 
> I have been having a problem with my vx10 second stages. I have been
> using vx10 seconds on poseidon firsts for some time now and have not had
> a problem with them previously. I had the them serviced for the first
> time this May; I had used them for three years previous with no
> problems.
> 
> Now i am experiencing freeflows from the second stage. I have a couple
> of other us diver seconds which i put on the firsts to eliminate them as
> the source of the problem and they work fine together. On the seconds I
> have opened the cover and all the parts appear to be fine. If I open
> them with the gas turned on the free flow disappears when the cover is
> halfway unscrewed. It seems that the small lever attached to the
> breathing resistance screw down is not tight enough or at the wrong
> height. One of my buddies mentioned he had a similar problem and that
> you need a special wrench from beuchat to deal with it.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas about this? Is it possible to purchase this
> special wrench? Anyone want to sell me one?  anyone even have a picture
> of it??  Right now I have the regs at the shop, but I would still like
> to know how I could have dealt with the problem myself.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Al Marvelli

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