Usually, I do...ljjames wrote: GAH! CAM!!! rebuild them BEFORE they start to go!! That way they might be less likely to 'start to go' at the not very opportune moment when you need them.
Florida was a complete fluke this year. I've _never_ before had regs fail completely on me after performing flawlessly for plenty of dives, let alone two first stages that both choked and failed to lock up on IP. I try to rebuild once a year for most things, and whatever isn't in the "rebuild" bin gets done anyway once I go through the trouble of setting up all the crap to do a service session.
The only other failures I've ever had have been straight-from-the-shop ones, with me checking them before I went diving. One was a screwed up rebuild, and the other was me going to the shop owner and telling him his IP gauge was fubar'd and he needed to buy a new one for the test bench.I know brand new regs can fail, and freshly serviced ones as well, but it just falls into 'stacking the deck in your favor' kind of thing....
