mine are 30 year old but i wouldnt take one apart to fix it if it leaked. they would be scrapped and melted down and end up as a brass plaque on a house wall
Ive emailed Harris ,theyre in America mind,see if they have a stockist here of these diaphrams.
Loads of Harris stockists in UK but non of them will sell you a diaphram
Ehh.We'll see,its worth asking them,rather take 2mins unscrewing it and popping in a diaphram than chucking a regulator that cost me over £150.Theyre meant to be rebuilt.Unlike the cheapo Chinese crap for £20.
Definitely worth trying to see if you can get the part, I wouldn't want to throw it in the bin either.
Do you know the model number?
well just pick up a cheap one till u get sortedYeah,its just a large red fibrewasher, a spring and rubber diaphram in the kit,but theres no supplier in the UK of them,not even near the UK,possibly Germany.Nobodys open 'till tomorrow,sent an email,its gonna take a weeks wait for the post if the US is the nearest place who'll ship it.
well just pick up a cheap one till u get sorted
The British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) recommends that pressure regulators are refurbished or replaced with new at least every five years.
Depending on gas properties, the type of application and the frequency of use, this could be necessary more often; for example every 12 to 18 months for some particularly corrosive HCl systems.
i'm really starting to disagree with this 5 years and scrap it with regulators,
it's not like any of the new regs last 5 years, had quite a few that were knackerd out the box, wheras ancient "unsafe" ones that should in theory have been condemed work perfectly still.
you can send them to be reconditioned and then they are good for another 5 years
REFURBISHED or REPLACED
I was always under the impression BOC Saffire series were serviceable, but it's a long time since I asked so the may have stopped