David,

The solution is simple. Only use boats that allow bootless steel tanks.  Nobody
really gives a rats ass about aluminums, but steels are tricky. Luckily as dir
spreads, boat operators are starting to include a boot requirement in their
printed literature. Makes it easy to know who to avoid. Boats that only bitch
when I show, are not getting my repeat business.  Now if only i could figure out
which boats dont mind double decker gear crates.........

btw the dive boat Karen is a bootfree friendly dive vessel.

rgds,

Al Marvelli

David B. Widen wrote:

> What we need here is ScubaPro and Faber to step up to the plate and explain
> the apparent weakness in their product family. What do their Engineering
> staff have to say?
>
> The NorthEast dive boat operators want boots on all tanks. The folks up
> there as sure to have the same problem. West coasters are in a different
> Ocean, but I'll bet the same problem. Oz land?
> ScubaPro & OMS are International and so is the problem.
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott [mailto:scottk@hc*.co*]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 10:52 AM
> To: dwiden@ho*.co*; Techdiver (E-mail); Vbtech (E-mail);
> scubaquestions@jo*.co*
> Subject: Re: ScubaPro Faber Tanks-Paint Bubbles and Rust
>
> DONT USE BOOTS!!!!
>
> Where have we heard this before...
>
> Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David B. Widen" <dwiden@ho*.co*>
> To: "Techdiver (E-mail)" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>; "Vbtech (E-mail)"
> <vbtech@ci*.co*>; <scubaquestions@jo*.co*>
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:18 AM
> Subject: ScubaPro Faber Tanks-Paint Bubbles and Rust
>
> > We had a group of individuals CA, FL, NY, & NJ joint us for the weekend of
> > diving out of Virginia Beach (Trip reports to follow). One very
> interesting
> > discovery upon removal of my tank boots was rust.
> >
> > Tanks: are SCUBAPRO steel 95s, white, and about three years old.
> >
> > Care: these tanks are VIP as required, washed off with fresh city water
> > after every dive (even quarry/lake), and stand up in my garage when not in
> > use.
> >
> > Result: The paint under the boots hass bubbled and formed pockets for the
> > salt water to collect. I do not know if the paint and water react under
> the
> > paint as it does in fiberglass boats or not to form an acid compoound. I
> > hope someone out there, in the knows, has the answer to that. It has cause
> > some extensive surface rust (already had two opinions from technicians on
> > this).
> >
> > Several other sets of tanks have been checked and found to have similar
> > conditions with different ages and manufacting date/group. OMS versions,
> on
> > a limited check group, appear not to have this problem.
> >
> > If you have SCUBAPRO tanks with boots on, remove and check for rust ASAP.
> >
> > Now what is the best preparation and painting to stop this and preserve
> the
> > metal?
> >
> > David
> >
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