Classic Head Dilemma

Simon TW

I have a friend with a Classic which is at present with the factory, The bad news is that it needs lots of work, £400 witha new classic loom or £540 with a new Co-axial loom.

He's a new CCR diver and as yet hasn't got a VR3 but when his classic head messed up I lent him a Vision. This has resulted in him wanting a Vision or something similiar (with the deco software of course)

I'm looking for advice from the infored masses on here on what other options there are. someone must have been in this dilemma before and done all the research.

I know that I could search the forum but before some smarty tells me to do this I've got a 22kbs connection.

Thanks

Simon

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jhaaja

HH or Shearwater electronics. Bin the old classic elecs or fix and sell...

SteveJ

I recently upgraded from a Classic head to Vision with trimix, HUD and tempstik. It cost £2900 but I was able tp sell my classic head privately for £1k which eased the pain. Early days, but happy so far.

PCDiver

Hi Simon,

I think your options are:
* Vision upgrade
* Hammerhead
* Deep pursuit (http://www.rebreatherworld.com/rebre...ouncement.html)

I would either go for the Vision or the Deep Pursuit.

Peter

Fun Under Pressure

My way:

http://www.rebreatherworld.com/inspi...hearwater.html

Cheers Markku

ajmtucke

difficult one.

either way it is going to cost !!

1 - To sell the classic with busted head you are probs looking at £1500 max, probs more like £1200 as people will be wary, and a Second hand vision you could get for £4k. so spending roughly £2800 and you might then want a vr3 as backup aswell ??

2 - repair the classic = £600. Sell classic and you should get roughly 2500 meaning plus a second hand vision would cost £2100 and you might then want a vr3 as backup aswell ??

3 - repair the head and buy deltap vr3 + urbm - £1600 ish for urbm, 4th cell, adaptor and new c4 v2007 spectrum vr3
plus the repair cost = £2200ish and you then have head-up-display, hp monitoring and new vr3

ps. There is a new classic head on ebay for 1k (nothing to do with me)

just a thought

ash

Simon A

Simon,
the bits left over from upgrading to a vision tend to go for £800 - £1000, or by the time you've bought an aftermarket head for a classic (and imported it if it's a hammerhead) you are looking at around £2k
If your friend is definitely wanting to upgrade to a vision get him to PM me, as in their current (unrepaired) state, the classic parts he'd have left over are exactly what I'm after to repair a stolen/recovered unit.
HTH
SImon A

jhaaja

I would say it can be hard to get 1k£ for a Classic head, I sold mine for 900E.

JH

ajmtucke

yeah it has been on there a good while

a

Simon A

JH
It seems to be around £1k for the head, scrubber bucket and scrubber canister, which are the parts left over if you buy the vision upgrade from AP (if I recall correctly, I paid £900 for the set I bought of Nigel H)
for a freshly serviced head 900 euros would seem to be in the right ball park.
HTH
Simon A