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Post by vance on Jan 20, 2023 17:06:23 GMT -8
From the "Soviet Manual of Scuba Diving" by S. Ye Bulenkov, et al. (2004): On my only visit to the then Soviet Union during the 1970s, I noticed that every second shop seemed to be emblazoned with the word "РЕМОНТ" (REMONT=REPAIR). Not a throw-way society.
DRW
The seller taped the Russian version of this diagram to the outside of the box, with some handwritten notes that I can't read! I'll take a photo of it and post here.
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Post by vance on Jan 21, 2023 8:40:02 GMT -8
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Jan 21, 2023 9:48:01 GMT -8
This took me a little while to work out as Russian handwriting sometimes shapes the Cyrillic letters differently from the way they appear in a printed book. Внутри запчасти от акваланга. Это не противогаз. Translation: "Scuba parts inside. This is not a gas mask". Hope this helps. DRW
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 21, 2023 11:46:06 GMT -8
So, this was for customs, and not for Phil! Good work DRW JB
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Post by vance on Jan 21, 2023 16:16:38 GMT -8
Thanks for the translation, DRW! It took a couple of tries to get it out of the Ukraine. Maybe officials thought it was contraband?
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Jan 21, 2023 22:05:06 GMT -8
Thanks for the translation, DRW! It took a couple of tries to get it out of the Ukraine. Maybe officials thought it was contraband? A pleasure, Phil. I built my own little collection of Russian and Ukrainian diving literature over recent years using a couple of eBay sellers based in Ukraine. Each time, the tracking showed the books doing a tour of the country, sometimes repeating their visit to certain Ukrainian towns before proceeding to the international section of the Ukrainian postal services in Kiiv, where they occasionally halted for a few days, so your experience won't be unique. I suppose the postal authorities there can't be too careful either these days in Ukraine when mechanical parts might be military in nature, hence the denial your parcel contained a gas mask.
The image above is a scan of the full page in the original 1968 Russian-language Soviet diving manual where the AVM-1m breathing apparatus is illustrated. This will be the same diagram as the one on your package but it includes the legend listing the parts.
DRW
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Post by vance on Feb 25, 2023 18:44:08 GMT -8
I received the parts and installed them. Works perfectly. If the seller hadn't been honest about this and refused to send me the parts, this regulator would be, and remain forever useless! Whew.
I like this one a bit better than my first, mainly because of cosmetics and the fact that the hoses are clamped on rather than string-tied and taped.
FYI, since I don't need two, I've listed the first one on eBay in case anyone wants to acquire one without the risk of shipping from a country that's in the middle of a war...
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Post by Tusker on Feb 27, 2023 7:54:18 GMT -8
Have you or anyone else dived with this one at all? Really curious to hear how it would perform.
Jacob
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Post by SeaRat on Feb 27, 2023 9:14:09 GMT -8
Just looking at the diagrams I've seen here and on Facebook and E-Bay, this appears to be a two-stage regulator, with a vary interesting demand lever design.
John
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Post by vance on Feb 27, 2023 19:26:44 GMT -8
Have you or anyone else dived with this one at all? Really curious to hear how it would perform. Jacob I have tried it out in a pool. It is a pretty decent breather. Yes, this model is a 2 stage with an upstream 2nd stage which requires an OPV. The hex nut that sticks straight down is the relief valve. The compound levers are very similar to the Snark DH regs.
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