IDEST Regulator Servicing Course
Strip, service and test a regulator properly
A course for dive technicians who want to add regulator servicing to what their workshop can offer.
It covers how regulators actually work, and then puts you in front of one with the right tools.
Training is delivered by Mark Taylor, who holds Wiltshire Scuba’s IDEST Training Centre TC021 accreditation, in our own working workshop.
Who Is This Course For?
- Dive technicians widening their skills
- Dive centre and club workshop staff
- Technicians whose centre wants to offer servicing
What You Will Be Able To Do
On completing the course you will be able to:
- Explain the principles a first and second stage work on
- Assess a regulator before you take it apart
- Dismantle, clean and reassemble a regulator confidently and competently
- Test that a regulator is working properly
- Complete the service documentation correctly
What The Course Covers
- First stage operating principles
- Second stage operating principles
- The tools required
- Initial testing of a regulator
- Hose configuration
- Dismantling and cleaning
- Washing and drying components
- Reassembly
- Performance testing and tuning
- Service documentation
Practical Workshop Training
The course runs partly as a presentation and partly in the workshop, and the workshop element is the point of it. You will do the work yourself rather than watch it being done.
Class sizes are small, so you get individual coaching rather than a demonstration from the back of a room.
Entry Requirements
No previous regulator servicing qualification is required.
A basic understanding of scuba equipment is an advantage, because the course moves at a working pace.
Duration, Price and What You Receive
- Duration: one day, typically six to eight hours
- Price: £250
- Tuition from Mark Taylor, our IDEST approved trainer
- Practical workshop time on real regulators
- A digital student manual
- A course qualification
- An IDEST technician registration card
This course is not a substitute for a manufacturer’s own course. Manufacturers generally require their own training before they will supply you with service kits, so if your intention is to service a particular brand commercially, you will need their course as well as this one. We would rather say so before you book than afterwards.
Why Train With Wiltshire Scuba
We are an IDEST training centre (TC021), held by Mark Taylor. Mark also holds our separate IDEST Test Centre (D7) accreditation for customer equipment servicing — so you’re taught by someone who does the job, not only teaches it, in our own workshop, on our own equipment.
- Training in a genuine, working test facility
- Small groups and individual instructor feedback
- Real equipment and real documentation
- Honest advice about which course you actually need
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Common Questions
Will this let me buy service kits from manufacturers?
Generally not on its own. Manufacturers usually require their own brand training before supplying kits. This course gives you the underlying skill and an IDEST qualification.
Do I need to be a diver?
No.
Will I work on real regulators?
Yes, with the correct tools, and you will test what you have reassembled.
Not Sure Which Course You Need?
Give us a ring or call in. We would rather point you at the right course than sell you the wrong one.