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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 11:05:00 -0700
From: iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* (IANTD )
Subject: Re: Private Re: DiveRite MLS info
To: iantdhq@ix*.ne*.co* (IANTD )
Cc: cavers@ge*.co*
Cc: techdiver@terra.net
Trout
As you most know the below is a fake, please accept it as the sick 
peice of humor it is from a retarded author who is frustrated and bored 
with their lack of purpose in life

Why don't we go diving and do something more productive than deal with 
thearpy for those poor valuless humans who can only take pride in their 
ability to fake mail.
Tom mount
You wrote: 
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>You wrote: 
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>>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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