There are several ways of looking at this. For me, servicing on a regular basic, say at least one time a year ensures that each stages is tuned, has new parts, is cleaned, and checked by someone who does this all the time. At $20 per stage this is, to me a pretty good deal. While one can be trained to do this work yourself, I've not thought this the right way to approach fundamental life-saving equipment maintenance. Sure - this is a "service" add-on from most shops; but it does appear one of the better deals in the industry. And if its service versus a $3K overseas dive trip hanging in the balance, gee... Roy //// At 10/21/97 9:48 AM -0500, Damon Cali wrote--------: >For those of you out there who own lots of reulators, how do you get them >serviced? I ask becasue I have just bought my first reg (total of three >stages) and was a little irritated that the local shop wants to charge me >$60/year ($20/stage)to service them - or the warranty (scubapro) goes out >the window. I know it can't be hard to do the maintenance myself. Is there >an easy way to get qualified as a scubapro tech? or should I just forget >about the warranty and pay for the parts while doing everything myself? >(provided I could find out how to do it properly.) > >There has to be a better way... > >Thanks, >Damon Cali >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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