SOURCES for Regulator Parts and Tools

 

Disclaimer:  You should not work on Scuba Regulators unless you have been trained.

 

*  Most sources were borrowed from Vance Harlow’s Scuba Regulator Maintenance and Repair Book

**  Additional Sources are added as available to the end of this list

 

 

 

A+ Marine Supply (A Plus Marine Supply)

http://www.aplusmarine.com/

116B McClure Blvd

Gulf Breeze Fl. 32561

850-934-3890

1-800-???-2360

Dive shop supplies similar to Global or Trident. Wholesale only.

 

Diving Technologies International (Rudy Mola)

http://www.divingtechnologies.com/

(954) 748-4772

One week multi-make SCUBA technician course located in Florida.

 

Edmund Scientific

http://www.scientificsonline.com/

101 East Gloucester Pike

Barrington NJ 08007-1380

(856) 547-8880

Low priced ultrasonic cleaners, starting at $135.

 

C&H Sales

http://aaaim.com/CandH/

2176 Colorado Blvd.

Pasadena, CA 91117-9988

(800) 325-9465

Ever changing line of industrial and military surplus useful for anyone building their own test or mix gear. Precision test gauges, Magnahelic gauges, valves, electronics, etc.

 

Global Manufacturing Co.

http://www.gmcscuba.com/

1829 S. 68th. St.

West Allis, WI 53214

Orders 800-558-1811 Tech (414) 774-1616

The source for regulator service, test equipment and gas mixing gear. bulk O-rings in nitrile or viton, and other goodies. Wholesale only. Anyone working on regulators who doesn't have wholesale connections should get the catalog by hook or crook, then order through a local dive shop or Trader John's.

 

Historical Diving Society

http://www.thehds.com/

2022 Ciff Drive

Santa Barbara CA 93109-1506

Good source of information on older diving gear, great magazine. Membership $35 a year.

 

John's SCUBA Sales

www.northeastscubasupply.com

2544 West Ridge Pike Norristown PA 19403

(610) 631-2620

John wheels and deals in new and used SCUBA gear, including many regulator servicing items. Sells the Global line, and similar lines by other suppliers. A very useful source for those who do not have wholesale connections, and even those who do.

 

Labelon Corp.

10 Chapin St.

Canandaigua NY

800-428-5566

Bardura waterproof, laser-printable sticky labels in various sizes. Usually sold only in quantity. The 2x4" size works well for visual/O2 clean stickers; give them a call and they'll send you some samples.

 

Mar-vel

http://www.mar-vel.com/

Box 646

Camden NJ 08101

(609) 962-8719

Commercial diving and gas handling gear, hard hats and some regulator parts. Neat catalog ($5 to non-business), will sell to anyone.

 

Masterline

19309 West Valley Highway Suite R-I04

Kent WA 90832

(425) 656-9108

SCUBA knowledgeable compressor dealer, HP fittings, cheap burst disks and washers.

 

McMaster-Carr Supply

http://www.mcmaster.com/

473 Ridge Road

Dayton, NJ 08810-0317

(732) 329-3200

Incredibly complete line of industrial supplies. Hollow shank nut drivers, face spanners, 0-rings, raw materials and just about anything else you can think of. M-C is legendarily weird about their catalogs they simply won't give you one unless you are a major company, or an established customer, and then they might give you just one but they'll sell to anyone, and in any quantity, so the trick is to get your hands on an old one and order a few times before you ask (they've also got the catalog online, but it's a pain to use, and on CD-ROM).

 

Parker Seal Group

http://www.thomasregister.com/olc/parkerseal/

18321 Jamboree Rd. Irvine, CA 92715

(800) 272-7537

Major Seal and o-ring company, free tech literature and some tech support. No direct sales call the 800 number for catalogs and other info, then buy them through your local distributor.

 

Peterbuilt Company

www.scubatools.com

7990 County Road #20 Galion, Ohio 44833

(419) 468-2212

Complete line of innovative SCUBA service tools, from flow benches to make-specific multi-tools and wrenches, at not-horrible prices. They make many of the dedicated tools for the regulator manufacturers and will sell to anyone; an essential source,

 

PSI

http://www.psicylinders.com/

6531 NE 198th St.

Seattle, WA 98155.

(425) 486-2252

Bill High's PSI trains tank inspectors and has a good line of related tools and publications. His book, "Inspecting Cylinders" 1997, ($17+S&H), is indispensable to anyone who wants to know more about the subject.

 

Surplus Center

1015 West "0" Street

Lincoln NE 68501-2209

(800) 488-3407

Military and industrial surplus gauges, fittings and hoses, and more. Free catalog. One of my favorites.

 

The Thomas Register

http://www.thomasregister.com/

Thomas Publishing Company 5 Penn Plaza

New York, NY 10001

The Thomas Register is a directory of companies making all sorts of products, as well as distributors handling those products. It's available in most libraries, and online. The Tomcat is great for finding out who makes something like O-rings and then finding a distributor who might have it in stock when you can't find anything locally many of the distributors listed have toll free numbers, and will sell in small quantities.

 

Trident

www.trident@tridentdive.com

9616 Owensmouth Ave. Chatsworth, CA 91311

Major dive shop supplier, full line of smaller items, including generic inspection sticker, valve OH kits, filters, burst disks and LP seats. Viton and nitrile o-rings, much other useful stuff. Wholesale only.

 

And, of course: Vance Harlow's

THE OXYGEN HACKER'S COMPANION

www.airspeedpress.com

The Compleat Underground Sourcebook on the Handling and Mixing of Oxygen, Nitrox and Trimix, for Dive, Emergency and Aviation use. An indispensable techdiving classic, it's (in our biased opinion) the best thing yet written on HP gas handling in the real world.

 

 

ADDITIONAL SOURCES

 

 

Dwyer Instruments Inc.

http://www.dwyer-inst.com/index1.html

P.O. Box 373, 102 Indiana Hwy. 212

Michigan City, IN 46361 USA

Telephone: 219/879-8000

Fax: 219/872-9057

Dwyer is the source for Magnahelic Gauges used for measuring 2nd Stage cracking pressure.  They also sell just about any kind of gauge imaginable.  If you visit their website, you can request a temporary account number that allows you to see the on-line catalogue prices and order stuff.  The temporary account number is e-mailed to you within minutes of the request (if you are within the U.S.)

 

Deeper Stuff

http://www.deeperstuff.com/

This is personal webpage that has links to excellent Apeks Service Information.

Quote from the Website: “DeeperStuff is a web site dedicated to dispensing information, photo's, and stories concerning technical wreck diving in the State of Florida”.

 

diveinn

http://www.scubastore.com

Diveinn describes itself as “[The] World's Largest Online scuba megastore, where you'll find an enormous selection of the best equipment from the leading brands.”  At one time, diveinn carried rebuild kits for Apeks.  They may also be a source for ScubaPro regulator kits.  Couldn’t hurt to investigate their site.