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I'll bet you two bucks that those valves had the skinny o-rings when they
should have had the fat ones. I've seen this several times before, and it
really gets to me when it is the "professionals" who screw up like that.
Egil.
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Bob Killorin wrote:
> When we got on the boat the divemaster said, "Oh yea, that happens every
> now and then. The o-ring seats in the k valves are a little too deep and I
> sometimes have to pop the air on suddenly to get the o-ring to seal. But
> often when I do that, they will leak when tank pressure goes down to 1000."
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Egil Aabel Naesguthe
Queen's University E-mail: egil@me*.qu*.ca*
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Kingston, ON Phone: +1 613-545 6730
K7L 3N6
Canada Fax: +1 613-545 6489
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