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Post by admin on Jun 28, 2007 10:48:12 GMT -8
The most common color label for the US Divers DA Navy Approved regulator is blue. A somewhat scarcer label was made in orange. I recently acquired a DA Navy with a yellow label that appears to be original. Has anyone else ever seen these yellow labels? Is it possible that the orange labeled regulator faded into yellow or vice-versa? The serial number on my yellow label is 51467, and I have see orange labeled regulators with both higher and lower numbers. I have also seen blue labels with both higher and lower numbers than some of the orange labels, so there seems to be no consistency with color and years.  |
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Post by scubadiverbob on Jun 28, 2007 19:58:33 GMT -8
I've seen the orange. Think your right on the yellow being faded paint.
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flafrog
Regular Diver
1962 Honor Graduate
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Post by flafrog on Jul 10, 2007 20:29:32 GMT -8
My DA Navy Approved Orange Label SN is 50591 west Pico address,who repaints these labels?
Flafrog
Panama City beach,FL
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Post by scubadiverbob on Jul 10, 2007 22:07:49 GMT -8
The US Navy basically has three colors of paint, haze gray (hence the term "hazy gray and underway"), orange base coat, and black. Been a few yrs since I was in the navy; but, what I remember was you use a sander to get to bare metal, paint a coat of the orange paint and three coats of gray. Then label pipes with black. The orange was really saltwater resistant. maybe the lables were repainted for that reason; but, almost everything in the navy is painted gray (from overheads to bulkheads, decks, ladders, everything!). Suprising they didn't paint the regulators haze gray !!
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