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Jim, I received this message ten times now - are you wanting me to reply
to this or is it just an email thing? I have never seen an Atomic reg,
and have no plans to ever use one when I have regs that are perfect
right now. Wuzup?

jim Thompson wrote:
> 
> Trey,
> 
> Thank for all of your "personal time" replying to messages. I needed
> to read
> this one a few years back. Ya, I'm sure you have said the same thing
> over
> and over again!
> 
> I have a number of Atomic B1 regulators. All of my regulators have had
> the
> intermediate pressure creep up. I have also experienced issues with
> the
> "high performance?" Flexo-seal on the piston (I'm not sure of the
> spelling)
> blowing my coldwater kit up. I dive with another instructor who also
> had his
> Flexo-seal fart the lube out of his coldwater kit on the dive after
> mine
> farted.
> 
> All of these failures had a small release of gas, just a few bubbles,
> either
> out of the second stage or in the case of the Flexo-seal out the first
> stage.  Once all 6 were "fixed"; I did not experience any more issues
> in the
> last 150 dives..... But then again I'm not inside a cave.
> >
>  The Atomic Z1 does not use a swivel in the first stage.
> 
> Jim Thompson
> 
> 
> 
>


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