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At 01:11 PM 6/5/99 -0500, Jess Armantrout wrote: >the odd thing is, when I sell stroke gear, I tell the guys why it sux and they buy it anyway. Why should they trust a guy like me who is actually using the stuff when they can trust a magazine ad or their instructor who got his card last week? I sold a zeagle last weekend. The guy wanted me to drop it off at a dive shop for him to pick up but I insisted he come over so he could see a hogarth set-up. When he saw it he asked which cylinder did I put the mix in and which the air. The Zeagle was a Medium but he really needed a Large. He said he'd get the straps lengthened. I spent 20 minutes explaining to him how the DIR set-up was better. I said "I bet within a year you'll be looking for a backplate and wings". I even offered to track him down a backplate and wings for the same price I was asking for the Zeagle. It turned into a game where I was trying NOT to sell him the zeagle. We both lost. He bought the Zeagle. He even paid extra for the second wing. I later saw how he'd set it up. He'd strapped the Zeagle with dual wings to twin 6 litre, 300 bar cylinders with a perfect (non-isolating) manifold and a single poseidon reg. Because of the tiny cylinders, he'd mounted a separate inflation bottle for the wings (yes, both of them), for the 70 metre (actually 74) dives he planned to do. You just know when someone is going to be unswervably dumb. So I shook my head, told him to at least fit two separate sources of inflation for the wings, and to not dive that dangerous heap of shit without a bailout bottle, and looked him in the eye till he acknowledged what I was saying. Yeah I took the money. But I think we may take him diving and try to straighten him out. Try to clean up his act before he gets to any big dives. It gives us all a bad name. rgds billyw > -----Original Message----- > From: William Allen <william@ca*.co*> > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com> > Date: Thursday, May 06, 1999 11:03 AM > Subject: stroke gear > > > > It's really sad while we all pontificate on the DIR principals and the unsafe >nature of any other system we consider it perfectly acceptable to dump your non DIR >and plain potentially dangerous gear on someone else. And as soon as the gear is >brought up you here a collective "STROKE" being shouted at the buyer. I guess it's >the old story i made the mistake but i think you should help pay for it. It's very >reminiscent of the television evangelist caught with his pants down around his >ankles while a disclpe worships at his feet. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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