by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Constant Injection Oxygen Rebreather CIOR, Homebuilders
Jorge build a constant mass injection oxygen rebreather with manual bypass The scrubber is in the counter lung, which is contained in a PVC bag that holds the oxygen bottle with the regulator. The counter lung is made of welded transparent PE. Both bag and counter...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Tomas Stas from Poland build all parts for his MCCR Tomos sent me pictures of his self-built rebreather. The use of everyday parts and bringing them together into a manually operated electronic rebreather is a true piece of art! While studying the pictures some...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual Operated Oxygen Rebreather MOOR, Homebuilders
Paolo build himself a very nice simple low cost oxygen rebreather Paolo lives in Trieste and made a visit to me last summer in 2008, talking about Pirelli’s and homebuilt units. After his visit he send me several emails and even Pirelli spare parts for my collection!...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Mike Wescombe-Down build a very nice closed circuit manual operated Dräger RAY rebreather! Mike Wescombe-Down build a very nice closed circuit manual operated …………………….RAY rebreather! Mike send me his very nice...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Mike Eitel build this complete rebreather. Please enjoy the design steps of the Swiss MeCCRV2. Michael is a person who build his own CNC drill, his own CD label printer and did many other inventions. Of course he then start building rebreathers. After the MeCCR...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Homebuild MCCR rebreather by Erik Ballast My name is Erik Ballast from The Netherlands. I rebuild a Dräger Dolphin rebreather as a manually controlled closed circuit rebreather. I have been looking and searching on the internet for a long time before building this...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Read all about Kristiaan Slootmaeker Black Dolphin with Armadillo sidemounts Kristiaan Slootmaekers dived his Dräger Dolphin rebreather a long time before he decided to rebuild his unit radically. Now he dives the black Dolphin as manual controlled closed circuit...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
A 50 year old navy cold water rebreather as MCCR! This is my “Teknosofen Norge III” based on the well proven (50 years old) Dräger Norge II. The modifications include splitting of the gas supply, right is O2, left is diluent. Modification of the...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Homebuild Rebreather
Accessories HBRA, Homebuilders
Here are pictures form the Cis Lunar scrubber layout Johan Duits from the Netherlands sent me these pictures from the Cis Lunar Scrubber. Just some information to show the quality of the parts of the MK-series rebreathers made by Cis Lunar! We are close to the...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Constant Injection Oxygen Rebreather CIOR, Homebuilders
Alexey build a CMF oxygen rebreather (CIOR) from the Russian IDA 71U. He also converted the IDA72V and published on this website earlier Below was my brand new conversion of IDA-71U into O2 CMF+bypass rebreather. Recently i bought an IDA-71U for such a low cost that...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Stan Henning build his own MCCR and calls it HR-2. His build was published earlier here. Now Stan upgraded his scrubber. This page describes his progress on his rebreather build. Hi JW, I call my new unit the HR2….. I made it from pvc like the last one but...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual Operated Oxygen Rebreather MOOR, Homebuilders
Dan Dunfee build a nice new rebreather. He used the former East German RG-UF/M as a donor. He made a beautiful design that could be used for your future homebuilt project! The small East German tank rebreather is a nice unit that can easily be found since large...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Michel Biesmans send me pictures about his manual controlled rebreather “Le Joky”. Michel sent me pictures of his Manual controlled Closed Circuit rebreather. On the pictures you can also see a sidemount rebreather with a special loop worn on one side,...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Jan Bruggeman from Gent Belgium build his own MCCR. Check this out. Jan thanks for your contribution! 1) The basics: A case with 2 bottles attached: 5l diluent (gives me some on-board bailout) and 3l Oxygen. 2) The important thing: The breathing loop consists of an...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Alexey Stekolshikow (Алексей Стекольщиков) has informed me about a very special rebreather, the Russian IDA72V. IDA-72V is written IDA-72B in Russian. The IDA-72V is shown here. “V” stands for Vodyanoj meaning “water heated”. So the IDA72V is...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Electronic Controlled Closed Circuit Rebreathers ECCR, Homebuilders
Carlo sent me pictures of his self-built EL Diablo rebreather Unfortunately further pictures of his rebreather are no longer available. The website http://digilander.libero.it/edirebs/ doesn’t seem to be active anymore. Still on this page pictures of his...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Electronic Controlled Closed Circuit Rebreathers ECCR, Homebuilders
David Elbaz from Israel build his own rebreather. Before I start writing about the rebreather I want a appreciation on the first lines, to you and your great website. I want everyone who is interested in my rebreather project to know that without the discovery...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
Matti’s IDA 59 Matti Anttila from Finland bought a IDA 59 through Ebay. He checked his set and step by step rebuild the unit. This write up shows the steps to be taken to use the Russian IDA 59. During his research he found that some parts were missing and...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Undefined Rebreather Systems URS, Homebuilders
Young Mr. Abbring send me this great pictures of his latest design Recently I received pictures of the new aqua-rig called “Le BarleducDuo” of an 8 years old diver named diver Abbring . He doesn’t need Inspiration….. Check out the...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Active Semi Closed System ASCS, Homebuilders
Alexander rebuild his Dolphin to new standards So here is another episode to add to the Homebuilders section. Rebreathers are starting to be more slim and streamlined. Also the comfort of the unit is high on the wish list of the builder. These wishes are resulting in...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Active Semi Closed System ASCS, Homebuilders
Andrei Yashin’s Ray rebreather Andrei Yashin from Moscow Russia sent me some modifications he made on his Dräger Ray. Of special interest is the orifice he made at home. If you are interested in how to calculate such orifices please check my website for further...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Manual operated Closed Circuit Systems MCCR, Homebuilders
KISS YOUR DOLPHIN GOODBYE Andrew Gay sent me his pictures about a Kiss Style CCR. Since this kind of conversions a very popular at the moment, I am happy to introduce you to his project. Have fun with Andrews story. The following photos show approx 6 months of...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Constant Injection Oxygen Rebreather CIOR, Database Oxygen Rebreathers, Homebuilders
Bill build an oxygenrebreather with pendulum breathing Bill recently sent me pictures of his self-built Pendulum rebreather. This is an automatic type with a so called “auto oxygen addition”. As you can see there is a small scrubber with sofnolime, and the...
by Jan Willem Bech | Homebuilders Homebuild Rebreather
Accessories HBRA, Homebuilders
Bob Howell build a plug and play gas connection system for his Inspiration rebreatherwith Self sealing quick realease connectors High Flow Fittings rated over 200 barViton seals all 02 cleanOC Regulators work normally at depthBoth valved halves have...
