CCR Loop Drying Coupler, Golem Gear Shrimp

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This is yet another component I have designed towards the goal of drying the counterlungs and breathing loop post-dive as efficiently and effortlessly as possible, and then protecting them while in storage. This is only one component of a larger system, that is still being pieced together bit by bit. If your CCR is equipped with a Golem Gear Shrimp, you'll have fitted your loop hoses with the Shrimp compatible bayonet connectors. Keeping the shrimp in-line with the loop presents a couple of problems. - The air you're pushing through the loop to dry it will just blast out of the shrimp mouthpiece instead, mostly failing to make it into the second counterlung. - You are also constant flowing gas through the DSV mushroom valves. I didn't want to risk possibly deforming them, compromising their ability to seal, and thus the overall CCR safety. So, with this coupler you can put your loop hoses back on your counterlungs after cleaning, without the shrimp, and this will loosely re-couple the loop hoses back together, allowing you to blow air into one counterlung that subsequently passes through to the other, and out the exhale OPV, or T-piece. This is designed to be a loose fit. If you flop your CCR around while this is installed, it will probably come disconnected. I did not want this to be an o-ring sealed fit, and likely damage the bayonet O-Rings. 3d printed surfaces are generally, when compared to the smooth machined delrin surfaces of the bayonets themselves "a lot like sandpaper" and would make short work of them.

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