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Post by Broxton Carol on Feb 2, 2008 6:08:05 GMT -8
This is veering off into a hypothetical spiral, that is of no consequence. The only way water actually could ever get in your tank, and I have seen this happen, is when diving at sea with a compressor on board, the tanks being filled rapidly from a bank that the filler is just put right onto the tank valve to be filled. And the guy doing the filling NOT cracking the tank valve to get out any water in that area before installing the filler. This would force moisture into the tank that is being filled. You are going to get water into the cans of your 2 hoser every time you dive. Thats the way it is. It dosent hurt anything, if you blow it out, and hang it up to dry after you dive. Water getting past the lp port is not likely, and even if it did, all you would have to do is hold the mouthpiece up, on the next dive and the rush would clear it out immediatly. If you did your last dive of the day, reach in through the exhaust holes with a stick, or thin screw driver and depress the diaphragm. A tremendous rush of air will vacate anything in there FAST! Always remember our old regs also have the so called dust cap on them. The early ones have a deep recess in them. If you dont blow out this area, you will be introduciong water to the regulator through the "back door". If this were salt water, I sure would blow it out with HP air upon returning home from the dive. The broxtons are all naval bronze inside, and can lock up the threads if not kept clean and lubed.
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Post by SeaRat on Feb 2, 2008 16:40:48 GMT -8
Thanks Chuck, as that is gooid advice. I have never had a problem with water in the tanks, but just threw that out for Duckbill's info.
Concerning the DA Aqua-Lung, I was viewing Jacques Cousteau's Academy-award winning movie, The Silent World, and saw something interesting. After one of the initial dives of the movie, Jacques Cousteau climbs out, and takes off his trademark triple-tank Aqua-Lung. The other divers do the same, and I note that each of the Cousteau divers has a hose-mouthpiece system that would indicate a Le Spiro regulator. But Cousteau, when he takes off his rig, has a rubber mouthpiece integrated into the hoses. Is it possible that Cousteau, in these initial scenes of the movie, was wearing a BroXton DA Aqua-Lung. I know that US Divers used the photos for the initial scene, with the Cousteau divers descending with bubbling torches, in the catalog. Now, I'm wondering if Cousteau took it one step further, and was actually using a USD BroXton during those dives. Could someone else look at this movie and give an opinion?
By the way, Cousteau was authentic to the actual sounds of breathing through the DA Aqua-Lung regulator.
John
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