Hey Bill,
Post a pic of you on the bottom of the pool with that contraption of yours.
Mark
Phillip, I appreciate your interest and sorry for my delayed response. We have family visiting for several days and it's really been eating up my time, but will probably get back to normal late this week.
Good Luck!
I'll do that next time. This first dip was sort of spur of the moment, and I had my hands full with the project regulator and getting a friend re-aquainted with diving since he hadn't been since 1988. Turns out he was more comfortable than I was due to the challenging nature of having to breathe through gurgling water. As I expected there was water leaking around the very outer rim of the demand diaphragm since I hadn't sealed it yet where it ties to body. Also a leak coming into main body from the old duckbill that wasn't sealing well. Finally figured out swimming with right side down put the exhaust downward, which helped drain water during each exhalation. This is all fixable, I think.ScubaLawyer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:29 pmHey Bill,
Post a pic of you on the bottom of the pool with that contraption of yours.
Mark
Well, Eben my friend, you can't hurt my feelings with that fairly accurate assessment of my mental condition Call me most anything as long as you smile when you say it.SurfLung wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:36 pm- Please excuse the "Crazy Nut" reference... I meant it affectionately.
- Looking back at the 1953 date of the article, these rigs must have been in use for a few years prior... Maybe even late '40s? And judging from the smiles on the faces in the photographs, and your cave diving story, they must have worked respectably well.
- This brings up something I have often pondered. We are always commenting on how easy breathing this or that regulator is. But I don't remember even thinking about ease of breathing back in the late '60s and early '70s. And likewise, I think the divers who used your "Build Your Own" were probably just happy to be able to breathe under water.
Phillip, I have caught up a little and have time to resume the project. I will be glad to provide more details on the diaphragm, but please let me know some specifics that would be helpful to cover.
I guess that confirms my guess that was Nemrod. Thanks for the offer to save me from using it.Vancetp wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:02 pmThat Nemrod hose loop looks really dangerous. Please save yourself and ship it to me right away so you aren't tempted to use it! I will put it on a Snark III for display purposes only with a little plaque saying you donated it to the piece.
A new loop with a mouthpiece made out of a copper tee fitted to garden hose sections is much more appropriate.....if the hoses are held on with rubberbands!
I have often looked at 1 1/4" sink drain couplers as a possible mouthpiece base. The threaded ones might make a kind of Hope-Page like rig....antique diver wrote: ↑Fri Aug 10, 2018 3:16 pmI guess that confirms my guess that was Nemrod. Thanks for the offer to save me from using it.Vancetp wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 2:02 pmThat Nemrod hose loop looks really dangerous. Please save yourself and ship it to me right away so you aren't tempted to use it! I will put it on a Snark III for display purposes only with a little plaque saying you donated it to the piece.
A new loop with a mouthpiece made out of a copper tee fitted to garden hose sections is much more appropriate.....if the hoses are held on with rubberbands!
I do like the thought of the copper tee mouthpiece rig, and will probably try to make some valves to work with that idea. Thank you. The garden hose part may be a little too basic, but that is what I used on my Hookah rig.
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