The gear maintenance episodes have been fantastic and have definitely helped me store my gear for the winter and Covid season.

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

These are some of the best videos in regards to taking care of my gear. Like zero bullshit, no rambling, and no buy this solution or this gizmo. Flying back from Cozumel so I’ll for sure be using this video

Hi James, grettings from Dunnellon FL .Sir I am very picky with my scuba equipment, got friends telling me why I so picky, well my life depend on my equipment. Great tip, I'm been diving almos for 20 years and didn't know about the table tip for sanitation. Thanks agan for this great video and keep up the good work.

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Dunnellon! Great to hear! Keep it up!

Don’t stop doing these. It’s super helpful

Great advice as usual, mate - and I'd like to add 'avoid mice deciding your BP/W would make a nice home'... My poor Transpac II and travel wing, still hanging in there but looking a little... chewed...

Always great information. One October in NY I didn't do a good cleaning. Next dive following inflate valve did not stop. Always do a good cleaning and get your stuff serviced!!

Best series everrrrrr

I am really enjoying these gear maintenance episodes, thank you for putting them out.

Thats for the gear videos, informative and always a good reminder! Thanks

Thank you!!! Great tips!

Loving these videos

Great tips thank you!

Great tips James. Thanks for the video. Cheers

very good tips. thank you

Great video!

I was certified this summer and I'm enjoying your videos. Very nice content and informative. Thanks!

Great video, both my current BCDs are wing so this is very helpful.

Thanks James for the content! always a pleasure listening to you and all your advice! I'm currently working on Dive Master cert and look forward to one day switching from a jacket bcd to b-plate, seems like such a better option!

Great advice and tips. As always great information and simple enough us old guys can follow it lol

Hey James, I didn't know you could buy a bladder wash hose - I made my own about 2 years ago from an old inflator hose and some garden irrigation fittings, cost me about $3 for parts and works a treat. I'm also of the opinion that you should understand how your gear works and thus buying an old BCD and 2nd stage regulator on ebay or gumtree and stripping it down is a good idea. You soon learn how fragile plastic threads are, as well as how easy it is to replace o rings, as well as how important it is to clean your gear properly.

Great video, James! I appreciate the info on what’s going on inside the BC and storage. Dive Rite rocks!

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks James for the great advice and your efforts 🤙🤙🤙🤙

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

Thank you in advance for the money you have saved me with this series and all the tips. Excellent series, even better channel.

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Rob! See you on Monday!

Great advices if You plan not to dive for some time. Agreed gear need maintaining but no need to baby it.

Great tips! I'd add a toothbrush for the soap cleaning phase...I find that this helps dislodge some persistent sand that likes to hide in the deflator! Also If people can't find steramine, Simple Green works well too and the EPA considers it an eco-friendly cleaner.

Thanks for the info on the steralite! I can also use that info for my camel back that I use for hiking :)

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

You bet! Glad it was helpful!

I never pass any episode I took. Alot of info from you thank you great James

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it

I once bought a wing and it rattled. Once I took the OPV off I shook out large salt crystals. Half the size of a golf ball. Gotta clean that out folks. I believe steramine needs to sit a bit to work so you may want to just let it lie there for a couple of minutes. I never service LPIs. I throw them out. Replacements are cheaper than repairs if you’re not doing it yourself.

Great tips!

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Learned something new with the Steremine tablets. Thanks...onward and upward

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

I recently got my dive certification and could really use some gear to get started

would make diving easier. a bcd would be awesome, new diver

It would be a very welcome to have this just to save money then doing scout diving

wow,this would be very helpful for my journey to the phillipines.......saludos from the canarian Islands

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great video I'd like to get this BCD

How often should you sanitize the inside? I generally do a fresh water rinse with the garden hose attachment after every dive and sanitize at the end of the season.

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds perfect. I sanitize mine every quarter, but mine get year-round heavy use!

Hi James, any tips for packing your BCD into a luggage case for traveling?

another great public service!

I actually keep it inflated just with air of my scubatank to take out the last bit of water/moist in the bladder. Air from our lungs is quiet moist😜.

Where do you find one of those LPI to garden hose adapters?!

Im glad being one of your biggest fans never missing a video cant enter one of your competitions because i dont have instagram or Facebook

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

You can still enter the contests! Click on the link through Gleam. You do need an email, that is all. You can still visit the IG and FB accounts without actually having one yourself.

Well done! Back when I worked for a dive shop (late 70's and 80's) we used something that we got from a pharmacy and diluted with water. I have been wondering if there was something else to use. Thanks

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeffrey!

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@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

I hope so too!

Hey James, thanks for another great video! One question: why not pour in your fresh water/cleaning stuff through the oral inflation hole? That would appear to save the hassle of taking the OPV off.

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

You can. It's actually faster (because you can pour faster!) through the OPV.

@craigtonkin3131

3 жыл бұрын

@@DiversReady hi

Naiizzzzz

I don’t see divers using double wings with their backplate/harness rigs. Isn’t a double bladder consistent with having redundancy in all of the diver’s systems?

Why not simply fill the wing with tap water through the OPV port, after having removed the OPV? I leave my OPVs off of my wings for storage, so that they eventually dry out inside.

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

The flush of fresh water through the inflator assembly dissolves any salt crystals in the power inflator assembly. In the springs, seats, valves and buttons.

@OrenNoah

3 жыл бұрын

@@DiversReady Agreed. That's why I drain my wings through the inflator.

@marcin.j.wasiak

3 жыл бұрын

@@OrenNoah not having this "water hose infiltrator adapter" i fill the bladder with fresh water from the tap using inflator exhaust valve and drain using OPVs and inflator pushing down inflation button. works well for me. Also found out that shower head hose when unscrewed has fiting diameter to push it against inflator connector (no need for custom adapter).

I meant double wing, not double bladder.

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Where can I get a hose adapter like that? Not sure if I could rig it myself. 5:24

@scmsean

3 жыл бұрын

Just hold the top button(deflator) and fill with water. You don't need this adapter.

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

You don't 'need' it, but that powerful blast of water through the inflator assembly forces any grime or salt crystals out.

@jonathanbowden6313

3 жыл бұрын

@@DiversReady so where can I get the adapter?

@scmsean

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanbowden6313 Any dive shop has it. Support your local store. People buying online is why air fills are now $10. Most of the time you are paying as much to more online anyway.

I think washing with soap is a waste of time. I just soak mine over night. I do drain out the water and run fresh water though it. The steramine I might try, since it is fairly cheap, but it does seem like overkill. Wings have lifetime warrenties. I doubt they would do that if they were going to fail.

@DiversReady

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sterilizing the wing because fungus or bacteria will cause the wing to fail in it's utility as a BCD. I'm sterilizing it to kill any festering nastiness in that dark, warm, anaerobic bladder.

@marcin.j.wasiak

3 жыл бұрын

The bladder will fail if salty water is left on it or inside; if forms crystals and those will damage bladder eventually by mechanical action. Same applies to rebreather counterloungs if those are not rinsed from outside (assuming sane diver would rinse and sanitize inside).

@scmsean

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcin.j.wasiak I realize you have to wash out the salt. That is why I run fresh water though it. I think washing the outside with soap and water is a waste of time.

Ok real talk....are you doing this after every dive? I’m shore diving 2-3 times a week, and adding a 5-10 minute BC rinse to the program really adds up. What do you think of fully cleaning the bladder every dive, vs rinse tank and dry off between dives, and a full clean once a month?

Just started diving. gear is so expensive. This would help me stop using rental gear.