Diver E-mails me and tells me that the Phoenix I put together for him 2 years ago does not breathe so good and NEVER breathed very good even when he 1st received it back from me after the conversion.
He says he has been too busy to let me know about it and has not said a thing about problems with the regulator till now. Naturally I tell him to send it back and I'll check it out right away. Even after two years I feel bad when a regulator I personally put together is not working correctly.
When it gets here I immediately put it on a cylinder and after a few breaths I decide that given the choice I would dive a Dial a Death before this thing....NEXT I put an IP gauge on it and it's around 140-145 so that is not the problem....Then I open it up and I find this............
Now the diver is PO'd at me because I tell him the maintenance on it has not been done and I won't even begin to work on the regulator till it's 100% clean again and I will have to charge him for all this since I know for a fact I didn't return it in this condition.....Mouthpiece valves were stuck to the wheels, duckbill is melted shut on one side etc. OR since I told him to send it back should I just shut up, clean it up and not charge him for it ?