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Vance Harlow's OXYGEN HACKER'S COMPANION |
NOW AVAILABLE - THE BRAND NEW, EXPANDED, HEAVILY REVISED FOURTH EDITION!!!
What's new? A complete cosmetic redo w/numerous photos - $25 continuous nitrox mixer plans - $6 BC hose nitrox sampler plans and, if that's too expensive for you, a 75¢ no-regulator direct-from-the-tank sampler that makes everything else obsolete - Argon - Updated sensor info and analyzer plans - and hundreds of other minor updates and additions throughout the book.
Since its publication five years ago, the OXY HACKER has become a tech diving classic - the most quoted and relied-upon guide to gas mixing and handling in the real world, for diving, aviation and emergency use. Treading boldly where the tech agency manuals fear to follow, this is the only single book that covers it all, and gives you the information you crave.
"I
really been meaning to write to tell you what a fantastic book the "Oxygen
Hacker's Companion" is. Of all my diving reference books on the shelf,
it's the most dog-eared and beat-up due to my constant reference to it.
I've loaned the "Companion" to many friends, and as a testimonial to its
value they have all purchased copies themselves. Keep up the good work,
your book is irreplaceable."
- R.O.
"Any news on when the Regulator Repair/Maintenance manual will be available? I want one! I love my O2 Hackers Companion! The best How-to manual I've ever read! Been mixing my own NO2 and haven't breathed air on a dive since!." - S.G.
Some of the subjects treated:
- Where to buy, or how to make a nitrox or trimix mixing whip.
- How to mix your own nitrox and trimix without a lot of expensive gear.
- How to build an under-$100 O2 analyzer.
- How to O2 clean your gear (and is oxygen cleaning really necessary)?
- Where to get, or how to make. "O2 clean" tank stickers (with photocopy master for the graphically challenged).
- Legal issues. Do you need a prescription to buy/use O2? Is it legal to mix your own dive gas?
- Is welding O2 safe to breathe? The truth about O2 grades.
- Dealing with compressiblity in the real world
- How to assemble your own low cost dive emergency treatment or aviation O2 set.
- Dealing with gas suppliers - an insider's guide to buying oxygen and helium.
- Buy or rent your O2 storage tanks?
- Where to buy O2 tanks - medical and industrial - for half what your local gas dealer charges.
- How to get "orphan" medical and welding tanks filled.
- Improvised emergency O2 treatment methods.
- Why aluminum O2 tanks have green shoulders.
- Easy to make, no-machining SCUBA-to-NPT, NPT-to-SCUBA, and medical O2 adaptors.
- Why a steel 72 really holds 65 cf., or, All about the mysterious "+" rating.
- How to cut the cost of hydro testing in half.
- Visually inspect your own dive tanks? And where to get the stickers if you do
- Easy-to-use nitrox, trimix and topping-up calculation worksheets.
- Tank tumbler plans, and why you need one.
Plus sources for all items mentioned, nitrox mixing formulas, easy-to-use OTU tables, tank codes, and lots more indispensible and hard-to-find info.
The OXYGEN HACKER'S COMPANION, 160 pages $35
