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| Originally Posted by Woz Not nececelery H. The inside of an apeks 1st stage is identical across the range as is the inside of the 2nd. The only difference is the 40 has no external adjuster (you can Araldite a bit of stainless bar into it if you want) and the 200 has a replaceable HP seat rather than having it integral with the body. Apart from that, there's bugger all in them. Apart from marketing blurb and bling.
The TX is the toughest of the lot, the ATX is the smallest (great for a necklaced backup) and the XTX is the newest and I have no idea how they breathe. I do know, though, that the 100 and 200 1sts are a PITA for twinsets as the port angles are all wrong.
If I make a few, anyone else fancy a stainless doohicky you can Araldite into your ?X40 2nd stage? |
Yep, I have to second that. The guts of these Apeks regs are all identical - barring the controls on the second stage. The only one that has a bit of 'wierdness' is the new Sensor which has a bloody computer in the 1st stage.
In fact the DS-4 I got with my T40 wayyy back in 1990 is identical to the one I got with my ATX50 in 2003, apart from the fact that the port rebates are slightly deeper machined into the chassis meaning that the long hose adaptor won't fit.
DS-4 First stage on with an ATX40 with an ATX40 (or TX40) octopus.
And now my ATX50 (got it for the same price as the 40 a while back) has had the CE adjustment nipple removed it's lovely
