Quote Originally Posted by Dsix36 View Post
Follow Lottie's advice.

When you are familiar with some of the pieces that you need to purchase, then My suggestion is to buy the regulator setup. Just my personal preference, but it is life support and my life is worth knowing how the regs have been taken care of.

As you may guess - I have had some bad luck with rental regs.

My .02 is over
Most rental gear is well maintained due to the liability potential! Not to say things don't go wrong, but that's why you're training A Reg will do you no good in 50* water if your too cold to dive longer than 10min!