New Regs

[Bob]

Thank you for your responses. I thought I remembered good reveiws from past posts. I'm gonna go ahead with the ATX 200's. Looking forward to meeting some of you over New Years!

[wingman]

There's a guy on eBAY that has the rebuild kits for the Apeks firsts and seconds. The kits are current and reasonable ($20-25 each)

That beats ordering them from Germany

One nice thing about the Apeks - they seem to need service less often than the SPs that I was diving. All the SP piston firsts started to creep too much for my taste somewhere between 50-100 dives. The Apeks DS4s, so far at least, seem to hold their stability far better. We'll see if I still feel that way in a couple of years....

The Apeks are trivial to work on too, which is nice - all you need is the case spanner wrench and the usual expected reg stuff. The SPs required a couple of special tools (piston bullet and, for the Mk20/25s, a "bushing holding tool" in order to get the "stack" of the bushings and HP O-ring in correctly) in order to "do them right."

Do you know a germany source for the kits offhand??

[Dwain]

The source for ATX parts are within the states. If you would like to find out you may PM me.

The ATX Regs are top noche... Like I said, the reason that I'm going to DR is due to easy parts avalability. Plus I personaly know the guys @ DR and I'm certified by DR to repair the regs.