Buying, Launching, Using a Buddy DSMBi...all Q & A?

[Gavin Smith]

with the worst price being from deep blue dive when I looked.

£15 ABOVE RRP

[Bantam]

Further to my last post, I have a (very quick) response from AP;

While I can understand your worry, if you look after your cylinder properly, this should not occur.

There is a non-return valve on the bottle, which in theory should not let any water in. But you should keep an eye on the valve to make sure that the rubber non-return seal is not perishing. Obviously if this perishes, the cylinder will take water in.

So from the horses mouth you have it. Be confident people!

(Chris Denney's where I got mine from £74.99 - http://www.divingdirectshop.co.uk )

[Mdemon]

Originally Posted by Gavin Smith

with the worst price being from deep blue dive when I looked.

£15 ABOVE RRP

Don't you just love them?

I think they still have a red blob against them somewhere... The People have spoken...

[Gavin Smith]

Best price for me was SDS at £65 - bargain!

[malcolm w]

I think buddy do a service exchange on there crack bottles i think it is £25
which gets the pillar valve serviced as well
malcolm w

[edward]

£60 from Kent at the dive show. I think they are £65 online now. One of the best bits of kit I have. Until swmbo lts me have that twinset, that is

[UKPhil]

0.1l at 200bar is 20l at 1atm. that's 4l (4kg lift) at 40m deep or 2l (2kg lift) at 90m deep. I can imagine that the smaller bottle might struggle to launch itself on very deep dives...

[Simon A]

Phil,
you'd have to go seriously deep, even at 90m you'd have 2kg or so of lift available, It'd be slow but it should get up even with that amount of lift. If you were rthat worried you could always give it one breath of exhaust bubbles first. The free diving boys reckon that a 0.4l bottle suffices to lift an unconcious freediver from depth fast.

Simon A

[rick]

I've just bought a Buddy DSMBi with a din fitting bottle. So far so good.
There's a springloaded bolt on the neck of the bottle (if you've got one I'm sure you'll know what I'm talking about). What is it? And is there anything I need to do with it?
Thanks

[Woz]

Originally Posted by rick

I've just bought a Buddy DSMBi with a din fitting bottle. So far so good.
There's a springloaded bolt on the neck of the bottle (if you've got one I'm sure you'll know what I'm talking about). What is it? And is there anything I need to do with it?
Thanks

Once you have charged the cylinder and closed the cyl valve and bottle valve that's the purge button to get rid of the gas in between the valves. If you leave the cylinder vlave switched on it will also double as a very loud whistle.