Creed
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Post by Creed on Jun 26, 2005 12:16:43 GMT -8
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Post by Linda on Jul 4, 2005 21:59:46 GMT -8
We have that issue from time to time on our site and have one on there now... I don't know anyone who has ever tried out the actual plans, though... that would be cool, eh?
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Post by nemrod on Jul 5, 2005 11:05:22 GMT -8
You build that Creed and we can try it out in the Y-pool. You can go first!  I have my Boston Whaler in my driveway for the summer season. The storms here with 100 MPH winds attempted to blow it away. I had to go out in the storm and hold onto the Whaler. I was somehow able to drag the 19 footer around behind the house to block the brunt of the wind. Oh well, just a typical day in Kansaw. James |
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Post by Ron Hearn on Jul 5, 2005 11:45:00 GMT -8
I actually have one of those working regulator systems, they were made from a WWII Lancaster air craft oxygen regulator that had a constant flow with no return check valves and Correct me if I'm wrong, but I also heard that it was this regulator type that Cousteau re engineerd and called his own.
Ron
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Creed
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Post by Creed on Jul 5, 2005 22:20:20 GMT -8
You build that Creed and we can try it out in the Y-pool. You can go first! I have my Boston Whaler in my driveway for the summer season. The storms here with 100 MPH winds attempted to blow it away. I had to go out in the storm and hold onto the Whaler. I was somehow able to drag the 19 footer around behind the house to block the brunt of the wind. Oh well, just a typical day in Kansaw. James We got a lot of ominous looking clouds out of that storm. I caught some scary looking rotation over the house, but it never tightened up enough to become tornadic. Just some pea sized hail and strong winds. I am still trying to find time to make it up there some weekend. We just bought a new house, which has clogged up my schedule somthing fierce. I've been taking my gear out to the city pool. Just an older(relatively speaking, given the present website) jacket style Seaquest bc, my Conshelf XI and XIVs and a steel 72. I typically get a kid or two brave enough to come up and ask questions. Back on topic, I would love to build my own reg. The idea attracts me for the same reason that vintage diving does. It reflects a time when diving was a passion and an adventure, before the rise of the sanitized, learn-to-dive-in-a-weekend mentality. I never had the opportunity to dive like that, being born a decade or two too late. More and more, my equipment mantra is simplify. I don't need a $5k, D-ring studded bc. A jacket or horse collar(still hunting down one of those) is fine. While a double hose might be cooler and a newer reg might breathe slightly better, a Conshelf is easier to aquire parts for and repair on my own(which is why I started buying them up in the first place). This philosophy causes me to deviate somewhat from vintage or psuedo-vintage practices in a couple of ways. I like power inflators, as they help me have a finer level of bouyancy control. That may change, as I spend most of my pool time working on my bouyancy techniques. A dive computer(like an Atmos 1) is also on the list, as it greatly simplifies planning and executing multiple multi-level dives. Ahh, I have wandered off topic again. I have gone so far as to draw up plans for a balanced double hose regulator, based on the Conshelf series. I may toss them at a friend who is good with CAD, and if he can produce a coherent set of plans, give them to a machine shop I work with on occasion. James, I promise, you get second crack at it if I do it. Unless I drown, at which point I would understand if you declined.  |
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Post by nemrod on Jul 5, 2005 23:32:20 GMT -8
"Ahh, I have wandered off topic again. I have gone so far as to draw up plans for a balanced double hose regulator, based on the Conshelf series."
There already is and it is called the Royal Aquamaster except I think it came first. The first stage in it is essentially the same as the earlier Conshelfs.
Yes,I would like to see someone engineer something like your talking about using an old Conshelf, that way we could have an LP and HP hose but then, actually, you can have all that with a Royal anyways. james
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Post by Creed on Jul 6, 2005 5:45:15 GMT -8
There already is and it is called the Royal Aquamaster except I think it came first. The first stage in it is essentially the same as the earlier Conshelfs. Yes,I would like to see someone engineer something like your talking about using an old Conshelf, that way we could have an LP and HP hose but then, actually, you can have all that with a Royal anyways. james Ahh, but then I wouldn't have the adventure of building and testing my own. |
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Post by nemrod on Jul 6, 2005 10:08:09 GMT -8
Well, what we need is a modern highperformance body to install into our vintage USD boxes. That way it would look vintage and even act vintage. Even better if it did not require modification of the boxes---drop in mod--that way nothing vintage gets destroyed which would ruin it's value.
Your going to have to work hard to beat a Royal.
You Kansaw guys always wanting to get your pliers and bailing wire out and build something!
James
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Post by Creed on Jul 6, 2005 16:55:53 GMT -8
Well, what we need is a modern highperformance body to install into our vintage USD boxes. That way it would look vintage and even act vintage. Even better if it did not require modification of the boxes---drop in mod--that way nothing vintage gets destroyed which would ruin it's value. Your going to have to work hard to beat a Royal. You Kansaw guys always wanting to get your pliers and bailing wire out and build something! James Heh, I think that it comes more from my Cajun heritage. Make what you need from whatever you have on hand, cook whatever moves, etc. My design is stubbier and has a smaller diameter than the double hoses I have seen. The advantage is that all the parts aside from the body and the hoses are standard Conshelf. I planned on 1 hp and 1 lp connection. I suppose I could put any number of lp ports, for drysuit inflation and whatnot. |
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Post by JES on Jul 6, 2005 17:17:36 GMT -8
Well, what we need is a modern highperformance body to install into our vintage USD boxes. That way it would look vintage and even act vintage. Even better if it did not require modification of the boxes---drop in mod--that way nothing vintage gets destroyed which would ruin it's value. ... James, This would be a great idea! But as you said "Your going to have to work hard to beat a Royal."  |
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Post by Broxton Carol on Jul 7, 2005 7:26:08 GMT -8
Back in 53, I was a widdle doumb kid in the 2nd grade, with a copy of popular science with the build your own aqua lung story hidden inside my geography book in class. I used to oogle that thing, and I remember you could order the parts from "Palley supply" who of course was one of their monthly advertisers. That was a neat story, and it may have worked, but Ill dive my broxton...... as I dont want to drown my arse with something so desperate. Have a grand day everyone!  |
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