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Nick Simicich wrote: >Perhaps the morally equivalent test is to drop the tank out of a tank >rack, onto the deck of a dive boat. I suspect that this test is repeated >hundreds of times per day, on various dive boats around the country. I have had this happen to my SCUBAPRO MK10 first stage (yoke) with no ill effects other than sheering off the hose with my primary on. Presumably the thread on the hose took the full force of the impact (sheering off where it screws into the first stage). It happened overnight during rough weather so I didn't see how the tank fell. Simon "..fear creates it's own reality." - Simon L Hartley Kryton (programing time gauntlet): "...all that remains is for me to go back in time and sacrifice myself so we can get ourselves into the mess were in now... ...all in all todays been a bit of a bummer hasn't it sir!!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Simon L Hartley o o Oo o Associate Lecturer in Resource Technology oo o o Faculty of Resource Science and Management o oo _____ o oo Southern Cross University o (_/-\_) oo P.O. Box 157 ===(S) o Lismore NSW, Australia 2480 Ph: (066) 203 251 or (61 66) 203 251 Fax:(066) 212 669 E-mail: shartley@sc*.ed*.au* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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