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Bill, you have to be or it is no fun when everything breaks. I may be getting longer times just because I rotate the gear. My salt water stuff is what goes fast, but then it sits longer between uses. Bill (aquadart) Bott wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > George & Scott, > > I don't recall now what size these O-rings are. However, they are > the 90 D. I found that if you put a dab of cristo on the spool and > place the O-ring on a hard surface you can push the spool into the O- > ring without damaging the O-ring. I have yet to have one of these > babies fail yet!!! I am a bit compulsive about maintenance though. > > At 07:37 AM 12/9/97 -0500, you wrote: > >Scott, this is exactly the problem I have had with all viton rings. > Try > >putting one of these on a hose insert, for example. The other > probelm is > >taking a set , as in the orifice of a second stage. I just use the > bunas > >and the p guage are the only ones that end up mushing, but that > takes a > >long time. I have not had one go on my regular gear in a year. My > >saltwater ones go on a regular basis, and there I am only using 35% > >oxygen. > > > > Bott is sending me a couple of his to try out. I would love to > >eliminated the mushing on the p guage, but I am not talking oxygen > regs, > >I am talking my main regs which never see more than 14% oxygen. > > > >J. Scott Landon (409) 886-9587 wrote: > >> > >> i have teh 90 durometer o-rings for the high pressure spool > >> piece. they are size 003. mine are viton. once you can get the > >> little buggers on, you are set to go without any of the > >> deformation you see with 70-75 durometer (standard) o-rings. i > >> probably rip 4 in half for every one i can get on. major > >> headache to get on. > >> > >> scott > >-- > >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to > `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver- > request@aq*.co*'. > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 > Charset: noconv > > iQA/AwUBNI53sPPdqRXLjbJGEQIWNwCgqu+qN+6n4z+9ewjRxUpNRLFB64oAn2Sb > +4YKoDLCu8c7HVHwqnhKs/C6 > =DFuT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Bill (aquadart) Bott -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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