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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p dir="ltr">The only reason I am familiar with them is because I had one when I first started diving. It worked as designed, but still felt like sucking a golf ball through a garden hose when deep. That, and the stream of air from the bleed would and should be cause to scrub the dive under any other circumstance - it is a poor idea to train your buddies to ignore warning indicators. At the time, I moved to ScubaPro, but I have been using Apeks regs exclusively for at least ten years now, and haven't looked back.</p>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On August 4, 2014 5:27:04 PM CDT, Ken Martindale via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sean,<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I had a Sherwood regulator and used it for about 8 months. It worked as you described but mine had a problem. The piston had a little path to leak a small amount of air into the equalizing chamber which was intended to keep any water out by virtue or the small rubber valve on the side of the regulator. The problem I had was that the rubber valve worked fine but the small leak path in the piston did not pass any air and thus no small bubbles. When diving to 150 feet the regulator thought it was at the surface and did not compensate for the depth and I felt I was sucking through a
soda straw. Getting a new piston solved the problem but I never used the regulator at 150 feet again.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bottom line check and make sure the little bubbles are flowing.<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">For what it’s worth,<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Ken Martindale<p></p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><p> </p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles<br /><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, August 03, 2014 5:26 PM<br /><b>To:</b> Personal Submersibles General Discussion<br /><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] scuba reg problem<p></p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p> </p><p>The exception to this would be if the reg is a Sherwood. Sherwood first stages use a dry air bleed system which constantly vents a miniscule amount of gas, instead of allowing seawater into the balance chamber. While this works, it makes it difficult to distinguish the
bleed from a problematic leak.</p><p></p><p>Sean</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"></p><p> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On August 3, 2014 3:25:13 PM CDT, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:</p><p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Hank,</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">the little non threaded holes are usually to let water pressure in to balance</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">the regulator to maintain your 130psi above ambient.</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It sounds like o-rings or valve seat. Nothing should be leaking out of it.</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It won't hurt if it's not much & you can get it serviced.</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Alan</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br />Sent from my iPad</p><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br />On
4/08/2014, at 7:11 am, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:</p><p></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Help<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">I bought a scuba regulator set for emergency breathing. When I pressurize the system, the first stage regulator is venting out a small vent on the side of the regulator. The vent hole has no threads, so I assume! it is a vent. The amount of air is very slight, is this thing screwed. It works fine otherwise<p></p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Hank.<p></p></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br />Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br /><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a></p><p></p></div></blockquote><pre style="text-align:center"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" /></pre><pre><br />Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br /><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><p></p></pre></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p></div></blockquote></div><br>
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