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Michael Walz asked
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>Could you tell me please the name of the company that manufactures those
>Swiss valves you were talking about ?
>
Unfortunately I can't and I doubt you could buy from them anyway. They are
an OEM - manufacture them for other suppliers who then sell them. For
example the Isolation manifold I have appears to be exactly the same as the
DiveRite unit at a significant saving.

I guess this is because the Unit is manufactured in Switzerland and then
finished to the supplier's specs - ie fit burst disks if required for the
market, Tank thread M25 & etc. Then shipped to the supplier.

So for the DiveRite unit it first goes to the US and is then exported from
there to the local importer in Australia who then supplies the dive shops
who finally sell it. My unit came from Switzerland to the Australian
importer/distributor (Stirling) who then supplied the dive shop. Hence it's
cheaper because one layer is knocked out.

BTW I'm talking here about a convertable DIN isolation manifold that can
either take 200 Bar DIN regulators or standard yoke regulators. Note that
the term 200 Bar DIN describes the length of the thread, a 300 Bar regulator
will screw into this unit and seat (at least my Poseidon does).
The distributor tells me that the manifold itself is rated at 240 Bar
enabling it to be used with the 232 Bar tabks they sell, plus if you make
certain mods you can change that.

Hope this helps.

Thanks to the people that responded about 300 Bar DIN Isolation manifolds,
there appears to be a new stainless steel model being released shortly
manufactured in Sweeden - will keep you all posted.

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