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Showerthought: a 15 minute bump test turned into 4 hours because of a stuck valve on my bailout bottle
Everyone says pre-dive checks are the boring part you rush through. I did that 3 weeks ago on a river job outside Baton Rouge and it cost me the whole morning. The check valve on my bailout was stuck open, letting water creep into the reg. I figured it was a bad seal, swapped it twice, still leaking. Turned out a tiny piece of grit was wedged in the valve seat. Took 4 hours and two calls to a buddy in Morgan City to figure out. Now I want to know, does anyone else pull the valve apart on every check or just blast air through it and hope?
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dakotab9312d ago
So when you swapped the seals, did you actually pull the whole check valve body out or just pop the reg open and swap the o rings where you could reach them? Asking because grit in the seat is the kind of thing that hides where you cant see it, and if you only found it after talking to your buddy it sounds like the first two swaps were blind. What got you looking at the valve seat itself, was it the leak staying the same no matter what you did? And on your normal checks now, are you cracking the valve housing or just running air and calling it good? Just trying to see where most people draw the line on a 15 minute check.
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