[quote=PhilSiswick;147084]As a breakaway from Tino's post on the Rebreather Accidents thread and with the onset of the dark winter months, I've been musing on how easy it would be to do my own servicing.
As far as I can see, there are four key elements to the unit (from a servicing point of view):
- The head, handset, HUD and tempstik. I'm not touching those - they can go back to APD. Whether it is worth having them serviced in the absence of problems is another question
- The loop. As far as I can see, that's a matter of general cleaning and cleaning/replacement of o-rings as necessary.
I think your are right here above.
I serviced my OC regs every 250 Dive´s. I do it my self so i safe money for the technican.
I dive now DS4 1st stage´s at my classic, the service all 2 years should be enough, i think, when i must servicing the valve´s i do a o2 cleaning with the valve´s but not with the tank´s.
When you fill by your self or you trust your dive/fill center so one cleaning should be enough. I done a nitrox course befor 2 years (15 students) i does not have enough o2 clean tanks and so i use 10 "normal/not o2 cleaned tanks". No problems. My nitrox instructor said:...the secret is to fill the o2 very slowly in the tank....!!!
I hope you understand what i mean. My english
Cheers Markku
