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Just a minute here!
Any equipement is, at some point, made by someone. "Homebrewed
equipement" only means that you happen to know the person who "built
it" very well, myself. I trust myself a hell of a lot more than
Mr. X who's there to make a buck on my back. Second, it is
no quite right to say that homebrew is cheaper, especially if
you count the hours you have to put in to gather the info and build it.
If you have the proper tools, training to understand what you're doing and
gather all the information you can, what is wrong with doing it yourself
and adding a few improvements? One big advantadge is that you end up
with a peice of equipement that you know intimately. You know its design
limits and its failure modes. You'll also be lot better informed the
next you'll wnat to buy "professionnaly made equipement".
And lastly, not everyone that reads the techdiver list is
Mr.-super-techdiver-which-puts-his-life-at-risk-every-other-weekend-on
-a-300-foot-dive. You're implying that we should all wear asbestos
suits when we drive because the formula 1 drivers do so when they race.
My last dive was at 60 feet, open water, in poor viz and light
conditions and I was very happy to have my homebrewed 75W along.
Cheers, and I'm looking forward to my next project, a SS backplate.
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Mitch Ashley wrote:
> Two things have become dangerously obvious here lately.
>
> Seems there are two kinds of divers:
>
> 1. Those that depend on their gear to do what's it's supposed to and
> therefore put their money on the best possible for the job.
>
> 2. Those that want good gear but don't want to pay. These include
> the homebrewer (George reformed me with one of his sharp but accurate
> comments) and the cheapster. Homebrew makes it himself, cheapster
> gets his gear by the cheapest means possible.
>
> It comes down to this - when your life and the lifes of those you
> dive with count - do you really want to be diving with the cheap
> stuff?
>
> Not me.
>
> Thank you George for straightening me out on that one.
> (P.S. - I guess you know this means your reel is on hold :) )
> There are those that talk about it, and those that
> do it. The ones that talk about doing it really
> bore me.
>
> --
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>
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