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Post by vance on May 4, 2023 11:05:44 GMT -8
Steele's is no more. He retired earlier this year. Bummer.
I'm still hoping he'll call me to help him sort through a houseful of old parts he has. He said he would....
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Post by SeaRat on May 4, 2023 18:28:29 GMT -8
The seats can sometimes be reconditioned on a marble sharpening stone. I have done this several times.
John
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Post by Jim Perdway on May 5, 2023 4:51:52 GMT -8
So the valve will live on! Charlie is going to dig for a couple more and then I'll be all set! Sadly, here are some tanks that will not live on to dive another day- took them to scrapper earlier this week. Speaking of Steele's, someone slapped a decal on that Dacor tank. Jim said it was from the Santa Clara shop, late 60's retired aluminum tanks by Jim Perdway, on Flickr
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Post by scubalawyer on May 5, 2023 5:38:07 GMT -8
So the valve will live on! Charlie is going to dig for a couple more and then I'll be all set! Sadly, here are some tanks that will not live on to dive another day- took them to scrapper earlier this week. Speaking of Steele's, someone slapped a decal on that Dacor tank. Jim said it was from the Santa Clara shop, late 60's retired aluminum tanks by Jim Perdway, on Flickr I got rid of the last of my "bad alloy" aluminum tanks a few years ago. It was a set of USD twin-50's that I bought new in 1976. Those were my favorite tanks of all time and we had many adventures together! 🦞
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Post by Jim Perdway on May 5, 2023 6:05:02 GMT -8
great picture! I imagine you had to get the knife out after that entry. Do you remember where that was? Of my bad alloy tanks, the only ones I decided to keep for display are similar to yours, stamped '78 and '79 USD 50s by Jim Perdway, on Flickr
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Post by Seahuntjerry on May 5, 2023 6:28:58 GMT -8
Public safety divers are required to use a reserve valve as back up because of the low vis water!
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Post by scubalawyer on May 5, 2023 7:24:27 GMT -8
great picture! I imagine you had to get the knife out after that entry. Do you remember where that was? Pretty sure it was San Miguel Island off Ventura, CA. Circa 1979-ish. I had gotten the Orange Poseidon Unisuit for a dive expedition to Antarctica that fell through at the last minute because the Russian Research Vessel we were taking sunk somewhere off South Africa on its way to Ushuaia to pick us up. I dove that Unisuit for many years.
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Post by snark3 on May 5, 2023 9:27:19 GMT -8
I still have a few of the "bad alloy" tanks. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them. Maybe wind chimes, maybe the 50 will become a gas grill who knows. We still have a shop around here that will fill them.....No that doesn't mean I'm going to use them.
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Post by Jim Perdway on May 5, 2023 9:40:30 GMT -8
The yellow 80 I got rid of wasn’t even the bad alloy and I’m not happy to have ditched it. It’s stamped September 1988, and from what I gather, the change on Luxfer 80s was made in January 1988. The shops in my region all ignored me when I stated this, especially because it has a VE stamp on it. I wasn’t going to subject someone else to the same inconvenience I had time and time again, so off to the scrapper it went. F*ckin way she goes
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Post by nikeajax on May 5, 2023 10:37:26 GMT -8
Sadly, here are some tanks that will not live on to dive another day- took them to scrapper earlier this week. Speaking of Steele's, someone slapped a decal on that Dacor tank. Jim said it was from the Santa Clara shop, late 60's Stephan, I could be wrong, I don't mind being wrong, that's the best way to learn, but, to the best of my knowledge, there was only a Steele's in Oakland There's Diver Dan's, that I think might be in Santa Clara, and there was Stan's Skin-diving in San Jose: the big joke in the 1980's, when it was open, was the "Skin" diving shop next door to the porno theater. Yeah, a pretty weak joke at that, but, just thought I'd share some Bay Area humor JB
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Post by Jim Perdway on May 5, 2023 12:31:45 GMT -8
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Post by nikeajax on May 5, 2023 12:43:24 GMT -8
I miss going there, it was a beautiful-deathtrap Ask Phil, it would have been way too easy to fall in there and break your leg, but he had the coolest shi-stuff! It was literally a diving junkyard: regs, tanks fins, suits, knives, helmets, masks all strewn about the place in boxes or heaped in convenient corners wherever they would fit. Gosh, it was like a magical dreamland where ancient diving history treasures were waiting to be discovered. That's where I found that Titan, BTW! JB
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Post by Jim Perdway on May 5, 2023 12:56:45 GMT -8
ah man I really wish I would’ve made the trip over there a couple years ago. Phil described it to me exactly as you have.
I’m happy to hear you found the Titan at Steele’s. I already liked it’s history in that I got it from you, but now it’s got even more 🙂
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Post by mackintoshman on May 18, 2023 10:00:37 GMT -8
I checked out the manual but I see nothing on packing the valve. Can someone help me with that? Thanx. Mac.
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Post by artc on May 18, 2023 10:14:36 GMT -8
Today, I’m taking my steel 72 to my LDS for the annual VIP and fill. I’m going to ask them to change out the K valve for a J valve that I have. Wish me luck.
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