CCR Loop Drying Coupler, Golem Gear Shrimp

UPDATE 24-02-22 - I have resized it finally - to mate semi-snug and not fall off so easily. It still doesn't touch the O Rings, which is by design to avoid damage.

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 BOV mushroom valves. I didn't want to risk the possibility of their becoming deformed, compromise their seal, and the safety of the breathing loop.

So, with this coupler you can put your loop hoses back on your counterlungs after cleaning, without the shrimp, and this will re-couple the hoses back together where the shrimp should be, completing the connection between inhale and exhale counterlungs, allowing you to dry it all together as one system.

This does not make contact with the bayonet O Rings. It is just barely snug to the mating locking tabs of the bayonets to hold it in place. At least that is the case with my printers tolerances. You may need to scrape away any elephants foot artifact on the print-bed surface for it to go on smoothly. I did not want this to be an o-ring seal, and risk 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. So no contact with the bayonet orings was the goal here.