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I forgot the most important reason why genisis tanks are garbage when
doubled: you must use the worst manifold ever made outside of the "cheater
valve" - the Sherwood D.I.N. This piece of shit is not counter-threaded like
the
Dive Rite and Scuba Pro, so when one side tightens, the other loosens at the
center. It has a face ring and a lip seal - true genius . The face seal is
loosened on one side or the other when the center post moves, blowing the
o-ring
seal, and the lip seal fails whenever it wants to. The Dive Rite, by way of
contrast, has double barrel o-rings that allow the center piece to move without
effecting the integrity of the seal.
To further demonstrate the sheer stupidity of whoever designed this
thing, the D.I.N. posts are cocked upwards so that you can be sure to knock
your
regulators off (break the DIN tube) if you hit something, or if the tanks fall
over with the regulators on. This piece of remarkable forethought and
engineering also allows the tip of the DIN post to collapse if the valve comes
into contact with anything, like the side of your truck bed, denting the shitty
brass they use and making it impossible to screw in the DIN connections. You
can
not re-tap it, as the brass is like butter in the first place.
You get all of this for about twice the price of a Dive Rite manifold.
As
I said, only a complete and utter stroke would have something like this, and
then only an obvious nephyte (and moron) would then come on here and argue why
this is the right thing to have , and that I don't know what I am talking
about.
Good luck.
- George
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