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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 19:18:09 -0500
To: John Todd <afn48281@af*.or*>, joan coval <saphire@ix*.ne*.co*>
From: trout@mo*.gu*.ne* (Jesse Armantrout)
Subject: Re: Cleaning regulators
Cc: GILGSN@ao*.co*, cavers@ge*.co*, techdiver@terra.net
don't know about explosions and shtuff, but pure o2 turns buna-n o-rings to
powder.


At 06:15 PM 8/20/96 -0400, John Todd wrote:
>    joan youre a smart chick.right on the money. - jt
>
>On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, joan coval wrote:
>
>> You wrote: 
>> >
>> >Should a regulator be cleaned for pure O2 or is it another B.S. O2 
>> cleaning ?
>> >
>>                                                                       
>> Gil.
>> >
>> 
>> Gil,
>> 
>> This is one of the purest forms of bullshit in existance.
>> 
>> This is a lie that is being propogated  by dive equipment
>> manufacturers, dive shops, and dive training agencies to separate
>> the diving public from their hard earned money.
>> 
>> Ignition of pure oxygen is only a problem at pressures OVER 10,000
>> psig.
>> 
>> NOAA and other agencies and individuals have been partial filling
>> cylinders using pure oxygen for better than 50 years as well as using
>> standard off the shelf regulators  WITHOUT  failure of any of these
>> devices due to filling or breathing pure oxygen.
>> 
>> -Joan-
>> 
>
>
>

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