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Art
its the ppg 2 of the simple green at 20 feet that makes it clean better.
Be careful tho if you sink deeper the ppg2 gets high and causes pitting of
chrome surfaces.
D

Paltz, Art wrote:

> Brian,
>
> Although I have not switched a reg. from one tank to another I did have
> a reg. loosen up from a stage bottle.  My mistake as I didn't check it
> before getting in the water (last time I did that).  Although the yoke
> did not "fall off the tank" it was loose enough to rattle around when I
> turned the gas on.  The first stage flooded (as I found out during the
> rebuild) but it did flow and I used it for more than 1 hour of deco.  It
> was my O2 reg. so I guess that puts to rest the subject of O2 cleaning
> unless sea water is suitable for O2 cleaning....  And I thought Simple
> Green was cheap!!  :-)
>
> Although I don't know for sure but I don't think the depth had anything
> to do with it.  Maybe I'm wrong....
>
> Art.
>
>                 -----Original Message-----
>                 From:   Brian Nadwidny [mailto:nadwidny@ho*.co*]
>                 Sent:   Wednesday, March 24, 1999 3:39 AM
>                 To:     techdiver@aquanaut.com
>                 Subject:        Switching regs underwater
>
>                 Today I was discussing some of the various philosophies
> for equipment
>                 configuration at my local diveshop. One of the things
> that I mentioned was
>                 that I had seen the idea of switching regs from tank to
> tank underwater in
>                 case of failure. Well that brought about much laughter
> and derisive
>                 comments that regs can NOT be switched underwater. They
> said, among other
>                 things, that the sintered filter would be fouled and
> wouldn't allow enough
>                 gas to pass to the first stage for it to function
> correctly.
>
>                 From what I've been reading over that last few months,
> UW switching of regs
>                 from tank to tank is part of the DIR philosophy so I
> just assumed that it
>                 was not a problem. So what I want to know is, has anyone
> switched a reg
>                 from tank to tank underwater? What happened?
>
>                  I have an old reg that I'm willing to sacrifice in my
> quest for knowledge
>                 but I thought I would ask here first.
>
>                 Thanks in advance for any information
>
>                 Brian
>                 Canada
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