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In a previous message, George Irvine wrote:
> 
> 
>   Andy, it takes very little pressure to know the knobs off. I have done it 
> three times, all in zro vis, if that helps you to "see" how it happens. While
it 
> is tru that I shoud not have been scootering wide open like that, it nonethe 
> less happens. To tellyou the truth, I nver felt it or heard it. I jsut have a 
> habit of checking the knobs when I have gotten near something, to see.

Damn! It never occurred to me that this could happen in zero vis.

My point was accademic anyway, since I do have an isolator on my manifold.

> 
>  On the other subject, you made the fatal error of asking for information
from 
> somebody not in possesion thereof. Bar indicates the thread depth, and I will 
> bet that some dumb red neck told you you could not put the 300 on tanks rated
to 
> 2400. Am I right? Of course am, I have been listening to stupidity like this
for 
> the last several years. 

hmmm, bar indicates working pressure, however, you are correct about 200 bar
DIN valves being shallower than 300 bar valves.

 Dive rites manifld is made by a company in Sweeden, I think, and is available 
> from Divers Supply as the Sea Elite, and from Scuba Pro and the Scuba Pro. 
> 

I searched through the archives and found a post that you wrote summarizing
the big benefits to the Dive Rite manifold over the OMS. From the post, I 
gathered that the best reason to use the dive rite is because it can be 
lengthened and shortened and can be used with arbitrary bands as opposed
to the OMS which is fixed length (and hence must be used with the OMS bands).

In your belief, is the OMS less safe than the Dive Rite?


> As you are starting to find out, real information is not at hand when you are 
> buying gear , only after you have been fucked in the ass. Now you will need
> to call Dr Hazeltine and get the AIDS test. Peter, now I see how we , as
> divers, can get aids, at least "hearing Aids" (from listening to too many
> assholes).
Yeah, my ass hurts (more accurately, my pocketbook) every time after buying
gear!

-- 
Regards,
Andy W. Barclay.        andy@le*.ca*
UNIX Instructor Team Leader / Queensview Branch Manager
(pgp publickey avail at ftp.learnix.ca:/pub/pgp.publickeys.pgp)

Real Programmers don't write specs -- users should
consider themselves lucky to get any programs at all
and take what they get...

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