Snark silver adapter Lp poppet and guide

[vance]

I'm sure some of you are familiar with the old problem replacing later, unobtainable Snark Silver poppets.

Several of us have been working on this.

I've modded a USD square poppet cup by cutting off the shaft, drilling and threading the hole and installing a custom post. This is a potentially great way to make the early Snarks rebuildable by using a USD style poppet puck. There are issues with this which we can address later.

In order to use an early style poppet in a later regulator, you need to drill out the Silver cover so the larger early post will fit OR a new guide/cover is required.

I just made a few adapter covers.

This is a new custom poppet and a new custom cover:




This is a photo of two new ones and the OEM Silver cover:




And here is a Silver regulator with a custom old style poppet and a custom cover installed:



I hooked it up and it works great!

[spirou]

I have already the (Phil )poppet, I am waiting the guide, and than dive with it😀😀😀😀

[snark3]

Phil FYI I have late model Snarks with 2 different length pins on the poppets. The one I have with a HP port uses a longer one

[vance]

Hey Skip,

Is one a "peacock" case and the other the plain type? Also, does the one with an HP port have an integrated first stage "nozzle"?

There seem to be 3 kinds of silver: the traditional "peacock"; the one with an HP port but with a removeable nozzle; and the latest one with a cast in nozzle.

I have had all 3 Silvers, but never noticed that the poppet length is different. I wonder why that would be?

I have no idea where I got them, but I have two poppets with 2 1/2" pins. They are identical at the head to Snark Silver poppets. 



Do you happen to have the measurements of the two poppets?

[spirou]

Apr 2, 2024 14:09:24 GMT -8 snark3 said:

Phil FYI I have late model Snarks with 2 different length pins on the poppets. The one I have with a HP port uses a longer one

I owed few snark, almost from the early, to the latest model.

I notice that one my second generation poppet, is a little short that the others, I thought that it was due to the thickness of the mould rubber part, or another reason. But it interfere not with the work of the second stage in my case, I use the screw on the lever to set levers hight.

Normally  according with the documentation I seems that nemrod used only two types of poppet.


Respectfully


Fred

[spirou]

Regarding some of my silvers poppets, one of them seems to have been shortened by cutting the pin 🤔