I just had a friend from Italy and one from Germany over at the house today,
and they said that they were concerned about some of the chrome jobs since
USD took over, and I think flaking chrome was the subject of that recall of
a batch that was flaking chrome into the first stage seat, but obviously
they got that one figured out.

As I said, I took no chances and have bought up as many of the old ones as
possible. I was putting some together today as stage regs when my friends
came over, and that is how the conversation got started. I showed them my
one spare set of seats and parts, new in the bag for years, untouched,
unneeded.


 Original Message -----
From: "Terry Michael" <terry-1@ly*.co*>
To: "Paul Osmond" <paul@no*.co*>; <techdiver@aquanaut.com>;
"George Irvine" <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: Apeks, the Canadian experience?


> Apeks has just one service kit available and it's for all Apeks regulators
because they are all the same! Just variations on the same parts, the turret
models for deco/stage, and the non-turret model's for back-gas. If the water
is less then 10C then use the sealed versions. The parts are all
inner-changeable between all the regulators (first and second stages)
regardless. These regulators are like Bulldogs.
> I had a nightmare that the Apeks line would start to change as a result of
the merger with Aqualung Corp. Does anybody know anything about this?
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:33:34
>  George Irvine wrote:
> >You have to be kidding? First, if you ever NEED a warranty on an Apeks, I
> >would be very surprised. I've never had to fix any of mine. Secondly, the
> >old Scuba Pro G 250 is  a great deco reg, if you have the money to have
it
> >fixed after ever dive.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Paul Osmond" <paul@no*.co*>
> >To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> >Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 1:56 PM
> >Subject: Apeks, the Canadian experience?
> >
> >
> >> I am planning on investing in two new regulators
> >> and based on info from this list, the archives and
> >> other sources it seems that Apeks is the product
> >> of choice.   Suposedly it provides high reliability,
> >> simplistic design, ease of servicing, standardized
> >> components, high performance and all at an economical
> >> price.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately I live near Ottawa (Canada) and only
> >> have a few local dives local dives shops to consult, all
> >> my other sources are US based.  At the moment the Apeks
> >> DS4/TX40 combo seems to be a very good choice for Canadian
> >> conditions.
> >>
> >> Ultimately I want to find out if the Canadian experience
> >> with Apeks is as good as the US one?   Things like
> >> cost of servicing, availability of parts, honouring warrenty,
> >> should I buy through a dive shop or go mail order, etc?
> >>
> >> I doubt that Canadian experience isn't as good
> >> as the US's, but if anybody has had any problems could
> >> you let me know as well as any alternatives that may be
> >> considered.  I already know that the tech-list highly respects
> >> ScubaPro regs, but is there anything wlse that is deemed as a
> >> good buy from a Canadian perspective.
> >>
> >> Thanx muchly,
> >>
> >>
> >> Paul
> >>
> >>
> >>
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