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Maintenance and Servicing: Discuss B*&^%tard leaking drysuit! in the Dive Kit and Equipment forums: <font color='#000080'>Well, I learnt a lesson on saturday. Dived hodge close which was ok, nothing to ...

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Old 14-03-04, 09:49 PM
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<font color='#000080'>Well, I learnt a lesson on saturday. Dived hodge close which was ok, nothing to write home about really, but if you're into dumped transit vans go for it. I learnt that if a drysuit inflator is sticking open, if you take the hose off (sensible precaution by me) it leaks quite a lot. So, an evening in with some screwdrivers and brute force methinks, and possibly cleaning o-rings and parts...

Just thought I'd share. You might not be going up any more when it happens, but you could get wet! &nbsp;

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I'd noticed that too. One time I jumped in without the suit feed connected. Pushed the button and nothing happened apart from that wet feeling whilst being vacuum wrapped. Life can be mean sometimes.
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Valves are for sissi's, I use hot air from paragraph 5, subsection 7 of the revised edition of the ammendment to artice 2 of the BSAC rules on what you should have done. None of that PADI rubbish for me!

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<font color='#000080'>I knew it. I could tell this would degenerate into a BSAC PADI debate as soon as I wrote it.

I demand an apology!
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I sympathse with anyone who has a leaking dry &nbsp;suit, for the last &nbsp;few weeks I have been emerging from dives with a wet patch round the groin area. &nbsp;What I had feared to be a weak bladder has since been confirmed as a leaking seam. &nbsp;Thank God !
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Adam now has a DRY dry-suit.
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I've got one of those Schrader Blowgun Valve and Hose set-ups so I don't get a leak when disconnecting the DS hose, but... since some bright spark include 'hose disconnection' in the new BSAC DTP, I've had several whinining trainees tell me their suit valves leak when they do this needless to say we leave this drill till the end of the dive (unless the trainee is working their ticket &nbsp; )
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I'm confused! Surely, the valve shouldn't leak unless you press the button??
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Well these are club owned, ahem... &quot;dry&quot; suits so they sometimes leave a little to be desired
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Quote[/b] (John Gulliver @ Mar. 15 2004,10:59)]I'm confused! Surely, the valve shouldn't leak unless you press the button??
Perhaps the air pressure is used to help keep the valve closed?
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