Advice on maintaining a regulator

Most serious activities demand certain investments. Diving is not an exception. High quality underwater equipment costs a lot therefore it will take much money at first. Having paid a large sum for a professional set a diver wants to use it for a long time without any problems. And this requires proper and prompt service of every element. In this article we will be discussing breathing regulator. Efficiency of this detail is very important because it directly reflects longevity and safety level that is provided at the time of diving. Regulator checking is based on a few principals.

• frequency. Service is carried out before the process of diving and after it. You mustn’t miss any of the steps.
• execution of all professional recommendations. In this article you will find a step by step instruction, every step is very important.
• Attentiveness. Check the device with utmost attention: do not get distracted on other things while doing it and no detail will slip away from you.

Even if diving training is a closed chapter for you than repeating regulator maintaining peculiarities will not hurt. As it has been said the process is divided into two steps. We will explain each step separately.

Checkup before diving

It is carried out in a few steps:

1. To begin with attach the regulator to the cylinder than breathe in with its help a few times. After that you should repeat the same process with an octopus. The process is goes along with checking the readings of the pressure sensor they must be normal.
2. Then check the hoses. Entire surface without fractures or other damages is the only suitable state. Same thing with the mouthpiece: holes, fractures are unacceptable. Metal elements should be checked for quality: in a good state they don’t have any signs of corrosion.
3. If you have protective cases for hoses then they need to be taken off the first stage. This will help examine the hidden parts.
4. After the described procedures regulator needs to be taken off, change the cap that keeps dust off, take a deep breath on each regulator and keep vacuum. At this a working device issues a barely visible steam of air, but the air is not going backwards.
5. Last step: checking the carcass of the demand valve. They must be intact without any damage.

Getting ready for diving in Eilat do not forget this memo. If during a checkup you found small imperfections, turn to specialists immediately. Don’t risk using questionable equipment.

Checkup after diving

1. Rinsing the device, it is important to control the demand valve. It should not be pressed into. You also need to check the dust protecting cap, its ideal position is fastened to the construction.
2. For a thorough rinse bailout valve is put under a jet of water. Parts of demand valve are rinsed with a warm jet of water and it passes through the mouthpiece and comes out trough permit valve.
3. Hose that connects inflator of low pressure should be rinsed in warm water too. In doing so the sliding coupling should move back and forth.

If you do all the above mentioned procedures attentively and promptly you will be able to keep your equipment in the due state for a long time. But before going on diving vacation to Israel we recommend you to recall how to maintain your other diving equipment elements.

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