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iani · 30th September 2006, 15:55

Quote: (Originally Posted by whaam68)

I'm not a Boris user but we have a couple in our club who have had floods. Watching one on deck strip down it seemed like granules of sorb had lodged under the OPV flapper valve in one of the lungs. The unit had passed the pos/neg.
regards
Mike

The plastic plate in the OPV has now been replaced by a larger version, supposedly this reduces the likelihood of lime getting stuck, I have certainly found lime in my OPV in the past and it is a good source of problems trying to pull a negative. The OPV seems to work better when wet so I now dampen it before doing a neg test.

Ian

30th September 2006, 15:55	#7 (permalink)
iani Nefarious Activist Current Rebreather/s: Ouroboros Other Rebreather/s: Inspiration Classic Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Middlesex, UK Posts: 334	Re: Boris floods Quote: (Originally Posted by whaam68) I'm not a Boris user but we have a couple in our club who have had floods. Watching one on deck strip down it seemed like granules of sorb had lodged under the OPV flapper valve in one of the lungs. The unit had passed the pos/neg. regards Mike The plastic plate in the OPV has now been replaced by a larger version, supposedly this reduces the likelihood of lime getting stuck, I have certainly found lime in my OPV in the past and it is a good source of problems trying to pull a negative. The OPV seems to work better when wet so I now dampen it before doing a neg test. Ian
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