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I figured that the best way of making sure you can fix something when it goes wrong is to be able to take it apart and put it back together again.
But I'm too much of a chicken to start in on my own regulators without a bit of practice first..
So for the grand sum of £20, I bought a clapped-out old set of regs off ebay, a few weeks ago - only has two LP ports, and the HP port is the same size as the LPs.
Last night, I finally got around to taking tools to it.
Two adjustable spanners, some pliers, and a swiss army knife later, and I'm done.
My God, regulators are simple things!
Okay, it's an unbalanced piston first stage and a classic downstream second - about the simplest regulator type in existence.
But even so... it only had three O-rings in the entire first stage. No specialised tools necessary. And no instruction manual either, it was so obvious how it all worked.
No wonder shops try and build up the mystique about "Don't try and work on regs yourself, they're hideously complicated" - if anyone actually looks, they'll wonder how anybody can charge £30 for a reg service...
I almost feel ready to start breaking up my TX100...
I figured that the best way of making sure you can fix something when it goes wrong is to be able to take it apart and put it back together again.
But I'm too much of a chicken to start in on my own regulators without a bit of practice first..
So for the grand sum of £20, I bought a clapped-out old set of regs off ebay, a few weeks ago - only has two LP ports, and the HP port is the same size as the LPs.
Last night, I finally got around to taking tools to it.
Two adjustable spanners, some pliers, and a swiss army knife later, and I'm done.
My God, regulators are simple things!
Okay, it's an unbalanced piston first stage and a classic downstream second - about the simplest regulator type in existence.
But even so... it only had three O-rings in the entire first stage. No specialised tools necessary. And no instruction manual either, it was so obvious how it all worked.
No wonder shops try and build up the mystique about "Don't try and work on regs yourself, they're hideously complicated" - if anyone actually looks, they'll wonder how anybody can charge £30 for a reg service...
I almost feel ready to start breaking up my TX100...