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Post by admin on Jan 13, 2007 15:50:52 GMT -8
Here is a very obscure regulator that I'd like to know more about. I've only seen two of these come up on ebay and I've never seen or heard anything else about them ever. They were made by Healthways and appear to be a model "Scubair" from the early 1960's. Perhaps they were made for Army Special Services (recreational gear) as Steve suggested in another thread. Can anybody shed any light on these? Dan  |
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Post by scubadiverbob on Jan 13, 2007 17:11:42 GMT -8
Dan,
I'm going to send you an IM on this and tell you who can tell you everything about this reg (hopefully)
Robert
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Post by scubadiverbob on Jan 13, 2007 21:37:11 GMT -8
Dan,
I sent info to Linda. Tryed sending an PM to you and it wouldn't go through.
Robert
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Post by SeaRat on Jan 15, 2007 17:59:21 GMT -8
Dan,
This looks like the Scuba Star second stage, and since I cannot see the first stage, I cannot tell whether it's a Scubair or Scuba Star (first stage was the only difference; knowing the US Army in that time frame, it is a Scuba Star;) ). This looks to be their tilt valve entry into the single hose market for a second stage. It was my second regulator, and I used it (the Scuba Star) for about three years in the 1960s. The Scuba Star sold for $39.95 back then, and you can pick it up for that price or just under on E-Bay now, so it's held its value through the years. I'm kidding, of course.
In the 1960s, I was in the Willamette Valley near Salem, Oregon, and the way to make some money in the summers was to pick strawberries. When you went to a field to pick them, you made $0.25/carrier, and there were six hallacks to a carrier (the kind that you buy in a store). So that meant that to make enough for a Scuba Star regulator, I needed to pick about 160 carriers of strawberries, or 960 hallacks. Now, I could pick between 12 and 18 carriers a day, so I'll call that an average of 15 carriers a day. So that was 11 days of picking strawberries. That's how it was done back then in Western Oregon, if you really wanted something, you made a little money by doing some work.
John
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Post by scubadiverbob on Jan 16, 2007 1:36:51 GMT -8
John's right. check out e-bay items 300070372438 and 30004474487 that Omar is selling (I've bought two regs and a set of scubapro vintage guages from him). Looks like Heathways made it. Interesting, the first stage has a reserve built in for the scubair. Good feature you don't see nowadays on single hose regs. I sort of like the idea of having a reserve. Some people don't pay attention to their guages; but, they would have to know how to use a reserve to help with that.
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Post by swimjim on Jan 16, 2007 4:25:15 GMT -8
In the 1960s, I was in the Willamette Valley near Salem, Oregon, and the way to make some money in the summers was to pick strawberries.
As a kid in Wisconsin you started out picking stones. Then when I was eleven I started working in the sweet corn fields. Later on I got on the baling crews and drove one of the trucks to the Grocery stores and wharehouses to deliver what we had picked that morning. I remember each bag of corn had 62 ears. The Mom & Pop Grocery stores would usually take about ten bags. The wharehouses would be good for as much as three or four hundred. I don't remember my starting wages, but something on the order of around ten or twelve dollars a week would be about right early on. Thats how I bought my first dive gear and got myself certified. Those were the days.
Jim
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Post by admin on Jan 17, 2007 13:01:08 GMT -8
Thanks Robert!
I will email your friend and ask him if he knows anything about the Army Healthways. More than likely, the Army ordered a batch of 50 or 100 regulators from Healthways and requested a special label so that they could be identified as US Army property. I've seen similar labels that said "Rental" on them- both on Healthways and Sportsways second stages.
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