#1806
hcdiveteambrian - 11/21/2014 8:50 PM
Right on RAWalker! It isn’t rocket science! I just use them until they quit then buy another brand new reg made in Taiwan. But one of those even at 100 bucks didn’t last 1 year. So I kept using it and trying to adjust it with a big pair of channel locks, I gave up and moved it to the Octo spot. So the industry, being so interested in "an account" with customers that have purchased regs or gear, cheap or expensive. Crazy. Like the IST I paid around 100 for, they claim it would be warranted for life, if I have it serviced every year for over 100 bucks. The way I figure that was run it till it starts having serious trouble, then buy another one. People would be surprised on the simplicity of rebuilds, with the right parts and tools and lube. What they’d be more surprised about is the high percentage of some inexperienced person for any mechanical nature, but yet they bought the advertisement to earn money in the dive business, so they got certified and now hold your reg in their hands. And why I know this, most of you older divers know this also, the lds’s you’d come into with a repair or adjustment. They’d fix it on the spot. Right in front of you. Now days they want to send everything out!