So I have been surfing the internet for awhile now, asking questions on scubaboard and figured that a DIY Rebreather wouldn't be that hard... and since I built it myself I would be the training agency!! SCORE! saves me big money on that whole training thing...
I started out looking around the house for parts... and I found the perfect scrubber..
- notice the awsome filter to more evenly spread gas through the sorb
- Nice big hose connector for good WOB
Next I had to find a can to put it in... looking around I found the perfect one...
- crush depth of 600' =)
Next I needed to find a loop.. after some looking around for hoses, turns out I had the perfect ones, made for the scrubber no less!!
- Notice how it looks like it belongs?
Next I had to build my own CCR computer, I mean $2k for a computer?!?! Ba! I have my UEMIS computer and thought to myself "that would be a sweet CCR computer" so I did some quick math... needed to make my own Deco program.. wasn't hard only took about an hour, then I thought about what platform to run it on... I needed the most reliable software I could find, in the end I settled on Windows 95, light weight, runs great and NEVER crashes..
- Pic of my first dive with it!!
All was going well but I had to make my unit look cool.. I mean I know the cool kids on the board would make fun of me and I wanted to be able to hang out with them so off to the hardware store I went, some paint, sand paper and stickers.. and here is the final look I came up with...
- TA DA!!!
Notice how the stickers and paint really make it POP?
*DISCLAIMER* If you belive for one minute that anything in this post is the correct way to build a rebreather.. do us a favor and shoot yourself now
If you belive for one minute I would dive a rebreather without being trained on it.... I have less respect for your intelligence then you do for mine.
If you belive anything I said in this post about building my own rebreather..... I'm sorry for you
