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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 07:24:06 -0400
From: "william" <william@ca*.co*>
To: Ted Green <scuba@md*.co*>
CC: Tech Diver <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Internet guide to Trimix
Ted Green wrote:
> 
> > From:          Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
> 
> > For those of you who are discouraged by the bullcrap out there concerning
> > nitrox and trimix here's what you need:
> >
> > A whip is $149 and the helium adapter is another $30 or so.
> > http://www.lloydbaileysscuba.com/.
> >
> > A good gas mix program is available at
> > http://osf1.gmu.edu/~achowdhu/page5.html
> >
> > Buy a 02 sensor and a volt meter-
> > http://www.ceramatec.com/
> >
> > A handbook for dealing with gas companies-
> > http://www.conknet.com/~g_packard/oxyhacker.html
> >
> > For a grand total of about $300 dollars you can dive the gas mix you want
> > without having pay a bunch of blood money to TDI or other money grubbing
> > entities out there.
> >
> > If you understand nitrox mixing, p02, and END, then this is all you need.
> 
>            Jim,
>               As usual you keep forgetting  the little stuff:
> 
> $5,000 to $15,000 for an air compressor and filtration.
> 
> What's that you say Jim? You want to be a gas blender but you are to
> cheap to buy the air system. Well I hope everybody in Virginia Beach is
> smart enough not to air top whatever swill is in your tanks, when you
> go skulking into their shops and say,"Just looking for an air fill". The
> people I know who "Home Brew" do it all themselfs. They have proper
> equipment, real O2 analysers, and own their own compressors. They
> assume the liability and take full responsibility for what they
> produce. They also take pride in what they do, and make sure it's
> done right. Why don't you ask George if he disagrees with what I am
> saying. But then I keep forgetting, you're not a Trimix diver.
> You're a "Key Board Stroke" who wants everybody to think your a
> Trimix diver. Now be honest Jim, have you ever dove Trimix?
> 
> NO! Doing it on the internet doesn't count.
> 
>          Ted
> 
> Ted Green (owner)
> Tidewater Aquatics (Dive Store)
> Salisbury Maryland USA
> TDI IT #029
> SSI MI #178
> 
> The world contains but three types of people:
>             1. Those who make things happen.
>             2. Those who watch things happen.
>             3. Those who wonder what happened.
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You don't know very many people if you think most of the blenders have
their own compressors. Of course my first thought again was nery mind
it's just ted the dive shop owner.
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