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Trey, You crack me up. :) Thanks for the info... several people have sent info on where to buy. For what it's worth - if I ever gave you the number of any shop I go to and you actually called I'd probably never be able to get air there again and might be hunted down and shot (which I guess is better than drowning). While not diving with strokes isn't a bad policy - not buying air from strokes certainly isn't - I ain't driving to Florida for a fill and the wife would kill me if I put a compressor in our already scuba filled apartment. From what I've read I think you guys are right on in theory, practice, results, etc. but you're SO rude that I think the rest of the world hates your guts. :) Which I know you don't give a rats ass about. :) I certainly don't... I mostly asked where to buy because I got confused on all the shim, disk, plug, replace this with that, loosen this and that part of your list... I can't resist: Why is the new four knob manifold thing from Dive Rite bad? Thanks again, -ben >From: trey@ne*.co* (Trey) >Reply-To: trey@ne*.co* >To: ben@wi*.co* >CC: techdiver@aquanaut.com >Subject: Re: where to buy manifold? >Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 20:21:29 -0500 > >Ben the dive shop guys will just tell what they sell. While I buy >everything I can buy from Jarrod and Robert ( Exteme Exposure and >Halcyon), I also am a great customer of every shop in this town and many >others , since nobody seems to have all the right stuff at any given >time. > >Somebody on here knows where to get that manifold. I got all of mine >from one of the guys on our team, and I do not know where he got them, >but he not only got them, he got them with the correct center section ( >beware the dive shop monkey on this one) and he got them dirt cheap. > >I will go ahead and tell you the real problem with these dive shop >strokes - they are all dealers in the worst crap , the lowest common >denominator of dive gear, and not for any of the good stuff usually. We >all know what those two names are in dive gear. The problem is that one >of those two stroke outfits does not pay its bills, so got cut off from >it supplier of manifolds, so makes up bullshit about the subject while >scrambing to come up with subtitutes. This leaves the bozo shops with no >good manifold, so they sell either the other piece of dung, or something >far worse, usually the latter. Obvviously , the Scuba Pro dealers have >the 200 bar version of the correct manifold. > >Any time any dive shop primate tells you not to listen to me, you tell >them to phone me up and try to tell me this bullshit. > > >Ben Wiseley wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I need to get a manifold for my tanks so I can start > > diving doubles. Everytime I go into a dive shop > > around here (New England) and ask for anything you > > guys are talking about I get something along the lines > > of "don't listen to the cave nazi's... this is what > > you need". (as well as - "just train in Mexico" and > > "no-one uses back plates anymore") > > > > Assume I don't have a PhD in dive equipment... this is > > from Trey's equipment list. Does anyone know where I > > can buy this stuff on line or mail order it from? > > What are disks, plugs, shims, etc.? What's the > > correct size insolator piece? If it matters I'll be > > using this with Luxfer Al80's in the ocean for a while > > until I buy steel 104's. > > > > Thanks for the help, > > > > -ben > > > > >From Trey's equipment list: > > -MANIFOLD - 300 BAR DIN SEA ELITE OR EXACT REPLICA > > WITH THE CORRECT SIZE > > CENTER INSOLATOR PIECE. REPLACE DISKS WITH PLUGS OR > > 1/16 SHIMS. SOFT > > PLASTIC OR RUBBER KNOBS WITH SOLID METAL INSERTS, > > SCREWS LEFT LOSE SO > > THEY CAN ROCK, CENTER PIECE LEFT LOSE SO IT CAN SPIN. > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://im.yahoo.com > > -- > > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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