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Gear maintenance hints and tips

  • 19-11-2004 11:23am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭


    Evil Phill, this might be a handy reference if it were a sticky. ;)

    Have you any hints and tips for gear maintenance? Nothing too technical, but I know that there is a right and a wrong way of doing things. Here are a few that I use, but I am sure that you lot can add to it:
    • Rinse your scuba unit when it is assembled with the air on. This will help prevent water entering places it shouldn't (hoses and first stage)
    • Don't push the purge buttons when rinsing. It can introduce water/ debris into the hoses.
    • If you are storing your cylinder long term (over winter) keep it upright. The bottom of the bottle is thicker than the sides and therefore more resilient to the ravages rust.
    • If you have a free flowing second stage try soaking it in a mild solution of warm fresh water and vinegar. The vinegar helps to dissolve any salt deposits.
    • Do you suffer from neck/ wrist burns from your suit seals? Use KY Jelly instead of Talc. It wont perish the rubber and the lubricant helps prevent the friction burns.
    • M&S have little reusable pocket hand warmers at the moment. You just pop a button to activate the heat. Nice and cosy after a dive.
    • Winter diving with no hot showers available? Filly a 5l water bottle with boiling water. By the time the dive is over it should be the right temp for you to shower under.
    • When emptying water from the inside of the BCD use the kidney dump rather than the inflator hose. The inflator hose is more suseptiable to corrosion and more difficult to replace.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Nice idea, we've too many stickies at the moment though so I'll do some much needed maintanece over the weekend and sort it all out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 406 ✭✭bigfeller


    Dry suit inflator button sticking?? Fed up with rapid ascents?? Disassemble and rinse spring in vineger.

    Works a treat on dump valves too.

    Also if you are diving in a wetsuit and find your feet get cold in booties (nearly types a b instead of the t there...wonder what's on my mind) wear a pair of socks underneath. This will stop the water moving about so much and stop your feet turning to ice blocks.


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