Mattleycrue76 wrote:I don't bother with a dive computer. All of my dive buddies have one anyway so I just look at theirs to know how much time I have left.
Oh yeah and I get my airfills at am/pm
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Mattleycrue76 wrote:I don't bother with a dive computer. All of my dive buddies have one anyway so I just look at theirs to know how much time I have left.
Oh yeah and I get my airfills at am/pm
Yeah, but you have to pay cash or they charge you an extra $0.25 per cuft if you use credit/debit.....Sounder wrote:Recently I saw am/pm had an air-fill punch card. It's the best kept secret for cheap air fills.
Unless you buy a Thirsty-Two ouncer.mz53480 wrote:Yeah, but you have to pay cash or they charge you an extra $0.25 per cuft if you use credit/debit.....Sounder wrote:Recently I saw am/pm had an air-fill punch card. It's the best kept secret for cheap air fills.
Yeah, I usually get a soda anyway so I don't feel weird when I ask to use the restroom. Drive-up air fills - best secret in scuba.defied wrote:Unless you buy a Thirsty-Two ouncer.mz53480 wrote:Yeah, but you have to pay cash or they charge you an extra $0.25 per cuft if you use credit/debit.....Sounder wrote:Recently I saw am/pm had an air-fill punch card. It's the best kept secret for cheap air fills.
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you guys are kidding right..?Sounder wrote:Yeah, I usually get a soda anyway so I don't feel weird when I ask to use the restroom. Drive-up air fills - best secret in scuba.defied wrote:Unless you buy a Thirsty-Two ouncer.mz53480 wrote:Yeah, but you have to pay cash or they charge you an extra $0.25 per cuft if you use credit/debit.....Sounder wrote:Recently I saw am/pm had an air-fill punch card. It's the best kept secret for cheap air fills.
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If you don't believe us, try it. Just be sure to tell them you need a yoke adapter because usually they've got the tire-fitting on it. Be sure to ask for the punch card. They only pump air though, no nitrox or trimix.Dashrynn wrote:you guys are kidding right..?Sounder wrote:Yeah, I usually get a soda anyway so I don't feel weird when I ask to use the restroom. Drive-up air fills - best secret in scuba.defied wrote:Unless you buy a Thirsty-Two ouncer.mz53480 wrote:Yeah, but you have to pay cash or they charge you an extra $0.25 per cuft if you use credit/debit.....Sounder wrote:Recently I saw am/pm had an air-fill punch card. It's the best kept secret for cheap air fills.
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In Oregon, they're full service too! If you have a hatchback, just put your valve tanks towards the back, hit the 'open' button and you don't even have to get out of your car!Sounder wrote:If you don't believe us, try it. Just be sure to tell them you need a yoke adapter because usually they've got the tire-fitting on it. Be sure to ask for the punch card. They only pump air though, no nitrox or trimix.Dashrynn wrote:you guys are kidding right..?Sounder wrote:Yeah, I usually get a soda anyway so I don't feel weird when I ask to use the restroom. Drive-up air fills - best secret in scuba.defied wrote:Unless you buy a Thirsty-Two ouncer.mz53480 wrote:Yeah, but you have to pay cash or they charge you an extra $0.25 per cuft if you use credit/debit.....Sounder wrote:Recently I saw am/pm had an air-fill punch card. It's the best kept secret for cheap air fills.
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the Shell stations in Portland can fill your argon bottle too, but you have to buy a car wash first.mz53480 wrote:In Oregon, they're full service too! If you have a hatchback, just put your valve tanks towards the back, hit the 'open' button and you don't even have to get out of your car!
I haven't done it in the 4Runner, but I've done it in my little truck and in my wife's car. The key is just having the valves easy to reach. If they can get the fill whip in there, they'll fill them without you having to take them out. It saves SO much time. I can grab a coke, hit the head, and I'm on my way to the dive site having lost little to no time.mz53480 wrote:In Oregon, they're full service too! If you have a hatchback, just put your valve tanks towards the back, hit the 'open' button and you don't even have to get out of your car!
Seriously? Since my argon bottles are so small, it'd be really cool to get them topped off between dive sites. Thanks!!spatman wrote:the Shell stations in Portland can fill your argon bottle too, but you have to buy a car wash first.
Sounder wrote:I haven't done it in the 4Runner, but I've done it in my little truck and in my wife's car. The key is just having the valves easy to reach. If they can get the fill whip in there, they'll fill them without you having to take them out. It saves SO much time. I can grab a coke, hit the head, and I'm on my way to the dive site having lost little to no time.mz53480 wrote:In Oregon, they're full service too! If you have a hatchback, just put your valve tanks towards the back, hit the 'open' button and you don't even have to get out of your car!
Seriously? Since my argon bottles are so small, it'd be really cool to get them topped off between dive sites. Thanks!!spatman wrote:the Shell stations in Portland can fill your argon bottle too, but you have to buy a car wash first.
it's the same down here, too. i don't do am/pm fills anymore. it's usually the shell stations, though sometimes i go to the 76 stations when they have that "buy two fills and get a free small slurpee" special.Pez7378 wrote:I don't like the taste of the am/pm air, it's kinda tangy. I'm not sure if it still is or not, that was before I started getting nitrox from NWSD.
What kind of paint gun? I filled up my Dangerous Power Fusion F8 paintball gun there when I was on the run once.Dashrynn wrote:Sounder wrote:I haven't done it in the 4Runner, but I've done it in my little truck and in my wife's car. The key is just having the valves easy to reach. If they can get the fill whip in there, they'll fill them without you having to take them out. It saves SO much time. I can grab a coke, hit the head, and I'm on my way to the dive site having lost little to no time.mz53480 wrote:In Oregon, they're full service too! If you have a hatchback, just put your valve tanks towards the back, hit the 'open' button and you don't even have to get out of your car!
Seriously? Since my argon bottles are so small, it'd be really cool to get them topped off between dive sites. Thanks!!spatman wrote:the Shell stations in Portland can fill your argon bottle too, but you have to buy a car wash first.
Wait.... I.can fill my paint gun there too?
The AM/PM in Hoodsport only costs 75cents for a fill:spatman wrote:it's the same down here, too. i don't do am/pm fills anymore. it's usually the shell stations, though sometimes i go to the 76 stations when they have that "buy two fills and get a free small slurpee" special.Pez7378 wrote:I don't like the taste of the am/pm air, it's kinda tangy. I'm not sure if it still is or not, that was before I started getting nitrox from NWSD.
Twss!!!!!!LCF wrote: until I bent it in Cozumel
I know for a (unfortunate) fact that the 250 does deco, but it is mainly only to get you out of trouble once you get into it. It will guide your deco stops, but it seems designed for someone who wasn't planning to enter deco in the first place. Deco stops take priority over safety stops on the timer, so take note if you are a rec diver who gets caught in a deco situation -- watch your timer, not your computer!Dashrynn wrote:wouldn't plan on doing a deco dive for atleast a year or two.....doesn't the 250 do deco dives? I remember reading it somewhere....scottsax wrote:Yep, the Veo 250 does nitrox to 40%. I forgot to set it to nitrox a couple times, and realized that I wasn't paying all that much attention to it anyway, so I got the Nitek Duo to be a better bottom timer, and to give me the option of doing deco on 100% at some point in the future.Dashrynn wrote:i know the veo 250 does nitrox til 40% and has a oxygen tox bar or something ( im not nitrox qualed)scottsax wrote:I used a Veo 250 for over 100 dives. My gf now uses it. I bought a Nitek Duo because I got a screaming deal on it off craigslist, and think it's pretty good. I don't have call to use 2 mixes yet, but it's a good little computer. The download cable is freaking expensive though-I haven't bought one yet because the price is so prohibitive.
Honestly, though, since I started diving 32%, I just use the computer for a bottom timer and do the tables in my head.
At least, that's how I rationalized it in my head...
okay i just read up on your comp, and the switching between nitrox and air must be nice for someone who dives both
Nerd.defied wrote:Correction about the Shearwater. I will only use a computer that will allow me to download the dive information directly, allowing me to code a script in linux to collect said data, and display it in my own dive log app. I'm confident that the Shearwater would let me do that, but not 100% positive until I can play with it. 0]
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Elise, can you expand on this? A safety stop is a deco stop, the training agencies just choose not to call it that.eliseaboo wrote:
Deco stops take priority over safety stops on the timer, so take note if you are a rec diver who gets caught in a deco situation -- watch your timer, not your computer!
i think there is a difference, jake. a deco stop is a mandatory stop, whereas a safety stop is not. the safety stop is intended to provide some padding to a recreational diver's off-gassing, but can be skipped if necessary.Nwbrewer wrote:Elise, can you expand on this? A safety stop is a deco stop, the training agencies just choose not to call it that.
spatman wrote:i think there is a difference, jake. a deco stop is a mandatory stop, whereas a safety stop is not. the safety stop is intended to provide some padding to a recreational diver's off-gassing, but can be skipped if necessary.Nwbrewer wrote:Elise, can you expand on this? A safety stop is a deco stop, the training agencies just choose not to call it that.