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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:31:30 -0500
To: Bill Krimmel <bill@re*.co*>, techdiver@aquanaut.com
From: "Roy Roper (CIO)" <r-roper@cb*.ed*>
Subject: Re: regulator service

Yes, there are many people that can do a wonderful job servicing 1st and
2nd stages.  And a whole bunch of folk who cannot, will not, and frankly,
if it were not for a "program" probably would think -never- to service
stuff.

My parachutist said something similar...

Roy
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At  10/21/97 2:50 PM -0500, Bill Krimmel  wrote--------:
>On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Roy Roper (CIO) wrote:
>
>> Subject: Re: regulator service
>>
>>
>> There are several ways of looking at this.  For me, servicing on a regular
> goo deleted...
>> 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.
>>
>
>When it's *MY* life on the line, *I* want to service it!
>
>plus, at $20.00 a reg, how much time do you really think the tech spends
>on it?  (I'll bet it's less then 1/2 hour if he wants to make money)
>
>This is one of the reasons I'm probably going to dump my Posidon - I
>can't service it myself without tools Posidon won't sell me - and
>training I'm not eligible for.
>
>This reminds me of someone else's .sig:
>For sale: Parachute, used once, never opened, slightly stained
>All you need to add is: Packed by number 12
>-bill
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