Help!!!! oxygen regulator is leaking from 5 relief holes

[brans87]

I have a older set of victor gauges least 12-15 yrs old and tonight when I needed to use and cracked oxygen open you could hear it and feel coming from the 5 small reliefs holes.

Guessing this would be a bad diaphragm?????

Has anyone rebuild them on here before? OR is this something I should send out for repairs?

Curious on level 1-10 how hard it is to do and best place for parts.

Thanks in advance,

 

[Fordum]

If you can get the rebuild kit, it should be dead simple. Not sure what is included with a Victor kit, mostly worked with other brands. But the front bonnet should screw off after loosening the pressure setting screw. If it comes with a new valve kit, it should unscrew with a socket.
Otherwise, just pop in the new diaphragm and tighten the bonnet back down.
DO NOT use any grease on any threads since you are working with high pressure oxygen.
The diaphragm presses on a valve in the center, to release the gas until the pressure reaches the set value, and in some regulators, that valve is a cartridge that is replaceable as a single unit.
Once you remove the bonnet, it all should be obvious.