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During our last holiday in England we saw a guy with an o-ring blow on his yoke-stage tank. His bottom mix and the other stage was DIN. ALL other divers were using ALL DIN. So he could not change the reg and had to stay in the water longer, or think about something else. ;-) Besides our bad german sould producing more and more valves/fittings and Gas-Laws the DIN stuff is great. All other things like some ox-clean-bullshit and ox-valves is useless stupidity. Michael (For those law-freaks out there.... of course we only dive this stuff in foreign countries...... ;-) ) >I use them to avoid the o-ring annoyance. Some use the yoke so they can >change the regs more easily. Since stages and deco gas are always off >unless being breathed, when you turn them on , you risk the blow. The >captured DIN ring will leak if loose, but not extrude and blow. The yoke >will blow and ruin the ring or shed it many times, but then you can >carry orings and change them out, etc - not my solution. >I stopped using yoke on mandatory bottles the first time it happened to >me. I flipped the o-ring over and reused it to get out of the dive, but >did not like the experience. Almost all of my stuff is DIN, even my >argon bottle. >>Dixieboca@ao*.co* wrote: >> >> Just wondering if there is any advantage to using Din regulators on the stage >> bottles. >> >> thansk in advance for your replies. >> >> Ted -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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