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Originally Posted by fireflock
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Originally Posted by marchand
They need to be serviced when they start breathing badly. I know a guy who services his every 7 years or so. As long as you don't slam the HP seat you really never have to get them serviced.
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That is a bad idea.  |
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Originally Posted by ertechsg
Wow! you really believe that then I 'll bet you don't dive or haven't dived alot
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I don't think that is all that bad an idea as long as the idea of breathing badly includes a drop in performance and leaking (including slight free flow). I would prefer adding an IP gauge check to catch incipient problems but a reg can perform adequately for a long time with a little IP creep not resulting in freeflow. And many problems could be managed and unnecessary services avoided if divers would learn to make simple 2nd stage adjustments. I expect to get 3 to 5 years out of a full service. I dive a number of regs so that is probably close to 100 dives on a specific reg.
But if you are going to push your regs like that, it would be a good idea to add a backup regulator to your save a dive kit.
I really don't see how such an approach is asking for trouble or having a serious "failure at depth" any more likely.