CL Do you dry them

**nigelh** · 3rd March 2006, 13:15

Quote: (Originally Posted by James Appel)

Or do you not even bother with drying them out?

In one.

I dry the head as the sensors get all annoyed if they stay wet but the counterlungs are lucky to get cleaned.

Skipbreather · 3rd March 2006, 14:10

Yes, I've always dried the CL(s) of my various rigs one way or another. Dry CL = no place for scuzzy stuff to grow. That said, be careful w/ a hair drier. I learned the hard way that even on the cold air setting many still have some of their heating element energized. When you restrict the flow temperatures can get a lot warmer than you'd ever imagine.

These days, I use my handy dandy Meg counter lung drier. All the parts came from local home center/ hardware store. Just a cheapo $10 50 cfm bathroom exhaust fan and less than $8 worth of various PVC bits. Keeps a nice zero pressure continuous flow thru the CLs that dries them in one or two days. It could be done w/ other fans, but the exhaust fan was the least expensive and also provided the ballast to keep things upright.

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nigelh New Member Current Rebreather/s: Inspiration Vision Other CCR Other Rebreather/s: Inspiration Classic Other CCR Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brighton, Sussex, UK Posts: 836	Re: CL Do you dry them Quote: (Originally Posted by James Appel) Or do you not even bother with drying them out? In one. I dry the head as the sensors get all annoyed if they stay wet but the counterlungs are lucky to get cleaned. __________________ nigelh
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