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The message below of course is a fake designed by some stroke who only knows how to play childish games just watch the routing on it Tom You wrote: > >User NATHANEL_FUSTER@gu*.br*.af*.mi* is not defined > Original text follows >----------------------------------------- >Received: by ccmail from zen.kr.com >>From iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* >X-Envelope-From: iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* >Received: from wizard.pn.com (wizard.pn.com [204.96.36.2]) by zen.kr.com (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA09016 for <cavers@ge*.co*>; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:19:43 -0400 >Received: from parnassus.pmail.gen.nz ([192.156.225.2]) by wizard.pn.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id VAA07122 for <cavers@ge*.co*>; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 21:22:04 -0400 >Received: from urania.pmail.gen.nz (urania.pmail.gen.nz [192.156.225.16]) by parnassus.pmail.gen.nz (8.6.5/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA07005; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:19:41 +1200 >Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:19:41 +1200 >Received: from THALIA/SpoolDir by urania.pmail.gen.nz (Mercury 1.31); > 9 Oct 96 13:36:18 +1100 >Received: from SpoolDir by THALIA (Mercury 1.31); 9 Oct 96 13:35:57 +1100 >Received: from by urania.pmail.gen.nz (Mercury 1.31); > 9 Oct 96 13:35:37 +1100 >From: iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* (IANTD ) >Subject: Private Re: DiveRite MLS info >To: trout@mo*.gu*.ne* (Jesse Armantrout) >Message-ID: <679A3857C21@ur*.pm*.ge*.nz*> > > >You wrote: >> >>173 minutes in Peacock???? My God, Tom, why not let your >students use fins, or at least a real light. I thought Dive >Rite recalled that piece ofo shit weeks ago? > > >At 11:14 AM 10/7/96 -0700, IANTD wrote: >Trout, >Why don't you kiss my ass? I swim with students, and >I do long dives with them and also swim relatively fast. >They are not as fast as real divers, but they made it >from Peacock to Olsen in 63 minutes on tripple stage. > >By the way, you guys hit it on the head with this >light - what a problem. I thought the old one was >bad, man you should see this mess. You are right , >they did recall it several times, but they keep coming >up with a quick fix, just like the routine we went >through with the "Neutraleak". > >I told them they need to ask a real engineer, or at >least somebody who knows something about diving, but >they had already dreamed it up and "knew all the answers". >Unbelieveable. If I were not in so deep with these >idiots I would have never let one in my house. > >Not only do they leak from every possible cause, >you need a special tool to to get the lid off! They did >not consider what happens when pressure, like from the >hydrogen buildup , increases on the inside. With a >proper light, like Arnold's, the o-ring would just >extrude if there were a propblem. But, NO, they listen >to some idiot who tells them to do this, and they end >up with a bomb. Whoever told them to use that seal did >not consider that these parts are molded, not machined. >If one of these went off it would maim somebody, or brain >damage them like must have happened to Mark Lenard . Ha! > >First, the fools tried to put the lid on while twisting >the wires - showing no forethought at all. The only "fore" >in this light is the "foreplay" Leonard must have had with >himself with this wet dream. They then came up with >something else, and something else and something else, >until you need a set of "jaws of life" to put the thing >together or take it apart. It is like an electric Rubic >Cube that can not be unplugged with the lid on, so they >started handing out a second blank lid to put on when the >light is not in use. > >They still have the fuse in there, causing the usual >problems and leaving me to suggest that nobody actually >go into a cave with this light. > >The molded-in belt loops are in the wrong places, just as >the d-rings on the Transpack are in the wrong places, >and they break off immediately when you try to use them. >The light is huge, and takes up too much space to mount >properly , or improperly for that matter. The through hull >connection is the usual crap, and is improperly mounted as >well and in the wrong place. Switches? Foreget it - all >of the same problems. Wiring ? Don't make me laugh. >Light head? The usual trash. > >They were taking the old light in on trade plus cash for the >new light - now I hear they are recommending you take the >batteries out and send them along with a check to American >Underwater Lighting and get a light you can dive with. > >Tom > > > > > > >
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