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My understanding is the new Dive Rite manifold is the same as the old original Dive Rite and also the Sea Elite, is this not the case? The new one is not a Thermo, its made in Italy. And the one I saw was 300 bar. I also see that Extreme Exposure is now marketing a manifold also. David. -----Original Message----- From: Trey [mailto:trey@ne*.co*] Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 6:18 PM To: Scaleworks@ao*.co*; techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: OMS Burst disk update I went and took another look at this thing - one of the dive shops had four different kinds on display, and let me take them apart. They had a brond new Sea Elite there. It's center section is reverse threaded on one end - if you spin it one way, it pushes the tanks apart, if you spin the other , it pulls them together. That is the adjustment. The OMS has the metal bond style of the old Sherwodd Selpac manifold on the inside of the center section,and has a socket to accept the thread portion of the valve on the other, where the face o ring is "captured" as Kevin said. There is one and only one setting for this mainfold, or it will leak. There is no reverse threading. If you have teh choice of manifolds and are buying, you can eliminate the Sherwood, the Genesis, the OMS, the Dive Rite and the Thermo immediately, and look then at the old Dive Rite , the Scuba Pro, and the Sea Elite. Of those, the Sea Elite is available in 300 bar DIN, the other two are not. End of story. Given the choice, the Sea Elite is the winner. Trey wrote: > > A real manifold, like the Sea Elite, has an adjustable center with > barrel o-rings which can spin if you hit something. The oms isolator > will not. That is as far as I needed to get to eliminate the oms from > any serious consideration at any time. Also, the o-ring is a face seal, > and is the worst way to do it, Kevin. You got fucked, to sum it up. > > I have all 300 bar DIN Sea Elite manifolds, but what do I know . > > Scaleworks@ao*.co* wrote: > > > > Hi George, > > > > The only OMS product I use is the manifolds, and the 121's on rare occasion. > > I personally like the design of the manifold. What am I overlooking here that > > you see as sub optimal? I have rebuilt Sherwood, Genesis, Dive Rite, and OMS > > manifolds, and OMS are the simplest, fewest parts, have a true captured o > > ring DIN fitting on the isolator bar. Besides the poorly designed knobs which > > I replace with rubber, what are the drawbacks? Although you can only use OMS > > bands with them, the bands are very substantial, and a hell of a lot better > > than just about all of the open market product, and up there with the custom > > stuff. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kevin > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.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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