Worthington Tank O-Ring Failures

diver-dad · Post by **diver-dad** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:50 pm

Found this on another forum and thought it important enough to bring it forward here.

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=152685

Sounds like a chronic problem with o-rings of poor quality or improper material.

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:38 pm

Thanks for the heads up diver dad, that is one scary photo:

lamont · Post by **lamont** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 3:16 pm

sorry, count me in with the skeptics. if an LDS is having a lot of issues with this and others are not, its not the fault of the tank or the o-ring...

cardiver · Post by **cardiver** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:31 pm

It happened to mine. I'd had it for about 5 days when,at 3 in the morning, I had the c*** scared out of me ! The o ring looked exactly like the one in the previous pic.

boydski · Post by **boydski** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:07 am

I did see a couple of these earlier this year, where the o-ring failed during the first tank fill. They might have had a batch of poor quality o-rings, but the ones I've seen recently seem to be working fine.

Scott (Boydski) Boyd

Sounder · Post by **Sounder** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:15 am

We've got 2 130's and 2 100's - all Worthington, and haven't had a problem... it probably was a set of bad o-rings.

Diver_C · Post by **Diver_C** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:05 am

I have four hp100s, and no ring failure. My rings are not blue they are black. I have come across others with ring failures of that same color, but not Worthington, and not that particular ring. I suspect the issue is not with the brand of cylinder, rather it is with the brand of o-ring.