Servicing your own regs - how?

[dave archer]

(with apologies to those who also read 'that other forum')

Anyone know how you can go about servicing your own regs? Remember hearing that the service kits can be hard to get hold of? I need Scubapro...

Also, what do you need to be to become a professional reg servicer? Approved sales outlet of the brand perhaps? Or can you just get trained and set-up? This is just idle thinking really - I need to service my regs, and I (always) neeed some more cash.... 2+2=... :-)

Cheers,
Dave.

[Dominic]

How in depth do you want to be? Full-on service; fix it when it breaks; monitor it to make sure it isn't broken..?

To be a pro servicer, you need to work for a dive shop or be a dealer - Joe Public is kept VERY firmly outside.

[Rupert Bear]

If it is just to save money then don't bother. By the time you buy the kits and tools necessary it will be a long time before you actually save anything unless you have masses of kit.
I personally do it because I trust my workmanship more than any shop and I can do it anytime I please rather than running back and forth to servicing agents for everything.

[dave archer]

Thanks for the replies gents - I had a feeling this might be the case.

I don't have masses of kit, and was wondering about saving cash rather than forking out for yearly service primarily. Although I did read that they can sometimes come back from service in a worse state than when they went in, so that makes me think of doing my own for quality reasons, like you Rupert.

So go on then, say I'm paranoid about the quality side and money is no real object (I wish!)... how do I get hold of kit and tools, and roughly what sort of cost...?

Dave.

(Edited for spelling)

[Dominic]

Get it set up once, then just leave it alone unless it goes wrong - saves you a fortune

[dave archer]

I'm all for saving a fortune Dom, and my inner Northener is so tight I will probably end up doing just this, despite anything my logical better judgement may wish to decide

"unless it goes wrong" - thing is I don't want it going wrong under water, and the point in servicing is supposedly to prevent exactly that? (inner cynic is shouting about cash for LDSs)

Do you follow your own advice here?
and is so every had one "go wrong" at depth?

[Gunna Do]

Do you need specialised tools, or would the tool box of a standard mechanic suffice..
Surely they wouldnt be that difficult to service, ( I do enough valves in trucks etc, to give a poss idea ).
Still that first dive after youve serviced them yourself would be a srotum tightner
Steve

[Scuba1]

<font color='#000080'>A Scubaflow uups pro MK 20 consists of just 14 bits including the O-rings so it is not exactly rocetsience to fix (service ) one of them and that goes for almost any reg IMHO.
Adjusting the IP on a MK20 can be a bit if a pain as it has no screw to do it with and you have to do it by means of thin plastic type waschers.