Nuggets

These nuggets are an attempt to collect the wisdom of the Rebreather List into one organized place.  You can find it all in the archives, but there can be a lot of noise at times.
These are collected postings from individuals and are clearly marked as such.  If you have a posting that made it here, and you'd like some changes made, let me know.

There may be comments by me to make things a little more clear, or to set up the reason for the post.  My comments are always italicized.

Remember, these are updated as I see fit, or at least as I have time.  You don't like it?  Sorry.

Notice: The links below do not necessarily represent my opinion or Northwood Designs opinion.  In addition, I won't guarantee the accuracy of these pages, since I am cutting and pasting postings and deleting stuff that doesn't appear to contribute to the topic.  We are talking about life support, here, so if you are thinking about taking any of the advice contained here, take the time to find the original articles in the archives and make your own decision.

Using Neon, Argon, etc. . . to breathe - Various 97-98

The word on Recycling Absorbent (besides don't do it) - Paul Elliott

The infamous Zinc-air battery as O2 sensor exchange - Everybody.   Rip Quinby, Will Smithers, Tim Taylor, Bill Elliott, etc, Jan-Mar 98  Warning: 45K

Where to buy components - Various

Liquid scrubber - Various 97. Jeremy Downs, Scott Leimroth, Paul Elliott, Peter Heseltine

How To Talk the Talk - Various

Humor on the list - Various

"Body count", a collection of incidents on rebreathers. [In progress, as needed]

Coming soon (maybe, maybe not) This is a list of things I'll research as I have time and put together the relevant articles.

Everything you ever wanted to know about sensors, but were afraid to ask. [In progress]

Failure modes of rebreathers [In progress]

How does absorbent work? (basic info) (along with any relevant web links I can find)

Sodalime Properties, Chemistry, and usage (in depth)

Gas properties, toxic, narcotic, hypo-, hyper-

Decompression with a rebreather

Why people use rebreathers (specifically, what tasks are rebreathers used for in preference to open circuit)

Breathing liquid.  This doesn't have a lot to do with rebreathers, but it is interesting.

Topic area: Various methods used with rebreathers (IWR, some operating procedures, the slide, flushing, deep stops, etc)

bailout ad nauseum  How much, what type, when to, how to.

articles about rebreather design (this should be a big one, with tidbits from the good old days)

Anhydrides/hydroxides and peroxides. . .This has nothing to do with blondes.

Going down on The "Spike"

Storage of sensors/scrubber/bags/hoses

Cleaning recommendations

This page last updated: October 05, 2004