Galen:

Again, it was not about the dollars. It is about being able to believe in the manual provided with the equipment.

I am also a SCUBA diving instructor. The manuals that come with this gear state that it should be inspected annually, unless it is in commercial service. We do not have techs in this industry that tell us to do inspections every nine months, because the manuals are wrong.

I have a shop full of woodworking tools as well. I follow the maintenance of that equipment based on the manuals.

It just seems silly to me that the manuals are forced to be printed with inaccurate information to be politically correct......

And it makes it hard to believe any of the other maintenance schedules listed.