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On 8/18/98 9:32, Jess Armantrout, armantrout@wo*.at*.ne* posted:
>Ease of Application. This past weekend I saw a guy putting a reg on a DIN
>valve. He was using a pair of channel locks to put the thing together, and
>then again to take it off. I have seen this on "numeris" occasions.
>Granted, every so often, I get a sticky yoke screw, but, assuming I
>remembered to purge the reg, with a little wiggling I can get it off.
As, perhaps, another issue, Dave Christie, of Rendezvous Dive Adventures,
in Barkley Sound, B.C. solved this one for me back before I began
de-stroking.
He saw me doing exactly that, and said "O-rings too small".
He then dug out his O-ring kit, and we matched the size I had on my reg,
and then selected the next size thicker.
He claimed that what was happening was that gas was getting trapped
behind the O ring in the channel that it was supposed to fill, and
putting pressure on the back of the threads, requiring at least a pair of
channel locks to get it off.
Haven't had the problem since, until I had the reg re-built at an
Underwater Sports shop here in Seattle, and of course, they put an O ring
in that was too small, and I had to replace it to get the reg off the
tanks.
Dave is one of the Greybeards of dive boats, and one of the three finest
Captains I've dove with.
"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you want to live forever?"
-First Sergeant Dan Daley
"Who wants to live forever?"
-Freddie Mercury
"I swear, I'm going to live forever"
-Jon Bon Jovi
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