O-rings

[amtrosie]

It has never been a problem for me in the past. It is also something most of my dive buddys do. I have only had one o-ring fail on us the entire summer, and it was operator error that caused the problem. It happened before the dive and of course I had plenty of extra.



I bet they are most likely made in the same factory, but have different packaging. Of course as soon as the SCUBA name is added, the price goes up.




And don't fool yourself, ALL o-rings will fail, even Papa Bear's White Gold ones. It is really not a big deal because the large majority of the time this happens before the dive and is corrected.

Your argument is that a majority of the time an o-ring will not fail?

I refuse to play the odds (call it the cheap Jew in me), or leave something so easily attended to, to chance!! A simple service call will ward off those failures and virtually guarantee a fail safe-dive. Nothing is 100% (except death and taxes), so let's dispense with everything will fail, eventually argument!


As for the cost esculating when annotated as "For SCUBA use", I have to chuckle. The scuba industry has nothing on the aviation industry when it comes to prices!

[lottie]

Your argument is that a majority of the time an o-ring will not fail?

This also depends on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist - is the glass half-full or half-empty?

I refuse to play the odds (call it the cheap Jew in me), or leave something so easily attended to, to chance!!

Wouldn't that be the other way around? The cheaper the better - keep all the money in the pot and count it each night? (i'm thinking scrooge)
So does that mean you have a big nose???

I'm off to eat some latkes...(2 months early!! )

[amtrosie]

This also depends on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist - is the glass half-full or half-empty?



Wouldn't that be the other way around? The cheaper the better

Am I pessimist? Nah, you have to think there to be something in the glass to begin with!!! I am of the firm belief that there is a hole in the bottom of the glass, and that all the water drained out!

My training and experience within the aircraft industry has taught me to leave nothing to chance. That includes, letting pilots play with buttons in the cockpit, for they ALWAYS BREAK SOMETHING!!!!! leaving me something else to repair. and I have enough to do without their assistance!!

When one deals with life support equipment, your approach is totally different. It is not IF something will break, but rather WHEN something will break, and it always does!!! So, one must view all mechanical things in that light. My approach then, is to set myself up for the FEWEST failures, and leave as little to chance as possible.


As for being cheap, that is just genetics, and can not be helped. My nose has been rubbed down by the application of said appendage to the grindstone!

[lottie]

My nose has been rubbed down by the application of said appendage to the grindstone!

Oy vey - that must have been painful

[acelockco]

As for the cost esculating when annotated as "For SCUBA use", I have to chuckle. The scuba industry has nothing on the aviation industry when it comes to prices!

I know you are dead on with that one!