Quote: (Originally Posted by teksimple)
Two others mentioned their concern about Gabriele' using aluminum or titanium first stages.
With reports like this, I would be mighty concerned. May I ask what make and model of first stages were used? Am very curious....
HELLO TO EVERYBODY,
just got back in my town after a long vacation.
First of all thank you very much for all the comments you wrote about the Ultralight Inspo.
I am going to reply to some questions about the rig;
The first stages I have used are :
for diluent side SCUBAPRO MK20 ULTRALIGHT - Balanced Piston first stage; it is the one in dark grey in the pictures; I bought it in Italy, I don t know if you can find it in USA or somewhere else; This first stage is VERY light, even thought it seems to have some trouble with galvanic current (it make rust pretty soon if not serviced properly every year).
for Oxygen side SCUBAPRO MK20 STANDARD - Balanced Piston first stage; it is exactly the same but in normal version, no special alloy are used; standard weight. It is the silver one (standard color) in the pics, on the oxygen cylinder. I was just considering to use the "ultralight" (alloy metal) for the oxygen.... but no idea if it work out well... no idea if oxygen and special alloy are compatible... that s why I used a standard first stage for oxygen.
The strap I used araund the canister is a standard tank strap; of course you have to be very cautious in closing it, you don t want to force it in order to do not damage anything...
well....
my Vision is now back to his standard configuration and I already dove it several time in italy...
it was nice thought to have it on the other side of the world!
thank you again,
take care
gabriele