DT's Tech Services

DT's Tech Services DT's Dive Store is now DT's Tech Services. Drysuit repairs continue but we now provide Mechanical Engineering and related Technical Services.

Drysuit repairs and alterations to both Neoprene and Membrane suits. Zips, seals, boots, valves etc. Outlet for Otter Drysuits and Beaver Dive Products and coming soon, Apeks Regulator Servicing/Sales. Wild Camping/Diving Trip Consultant/Organiser (check out my Blog at http://divetramp.blogspot.com/ )

25/04/2026

Another month of mixed tasks fulfilled (and ongoing).
Kayaker's drycags fitted with new seals, wrist and neck, this very morning (there are few "days off" when selfemployed...). The past few weeks I've been "inside", welding extra window guards to the cell windows in a local prison. (that is quite an eye-opener!), repairs to a broken glass top on a campervan sink, recommissioned the appliances in a 1993 Hobby motorhome, unscrambled and figured out the spaghetti of electric wires in order to remove the unnecessary components (they were dead/burnt out but left in place) and set up new leisure batteries complete with more appropriate cabling. Household 6mm T&E solid cable is NOT appropriate in a motorvehicle! The batteries are now firmly held in place with clamps, not left to freely rock around under the seats. A new front caliper also fitted, along with setting the fanbelt correctly to stop that horrible screech when accelerating.
I've also taken on another project. I've bought a Vauxhall Combo to build up as a micro camper. It came with engine management lights on, but these have been dealt with without any issues. It turns out that there was just a touch corrosion on sone of the fuses and relays that led to varying voltage values reaching the ECM and leading it show multiple "faults".
"Every day is the same, different!"

15/03/2026

Sorry for the lack of content, its simply because I've been busy...
More work on improving the build on a former Police Control Unit van, then helping that same owner with MOT'ing his new purchase of a LHD Hobby motorhome of the late 90's vintage.
A shoulder injury has slightly slowed me down on the "greenshed" build in my own yard. It's a fully glazed shed with flat roof hosting more "garden" area, but it's nearly fully complete now, complete with rainwater collection butts.
Oh, that reminds me, I also had a day out to Binn Group, Glenfarg, to facilitate another rainwater harvest system as part of their fire fighting system. That's the 3rd one I've done at that site.
I've also been around/across the country operating MEWPs for survey teams.

05/12/2025

Busy times leading up to Bah Humbug Time. Drysuit neck and cuff seal replacements for both sea-kayakers and freshwater "bouncers" and a neoprene boot swap from and older diving drysuit onto a not-quite-so-old diving drysuit (neoprene boots are becoming like men's teeth these days. Zero stocks of size 42 anywhere).
Vehicle repairs too, oil change/servicing on a Transit, nearside door sills welded in (inner and outer sills, I fabricated the complex shaped inner sill from galvanised sheet steel). A Dacia Duster came in with no heater fan... that's not good in this weather. Having no gas in the AC wouldn't have helped, but a new heater motor resistor brought the motor back to life tho.
I was also asked to locate and hopefully repair a leaky roof on a Talbot motorhome that has "supposedly" been repaired (and paid for...). However, when that chap had removed the gas heater (and fitted a CDH instead) he'd slackened off the chimney, but never removed it. Rain simply poured in round the non-existant seal now!
To make matters worse, the CDH (Chinese diesel heater) refused to work. It's control panel had developed a fault. A replacement control system is on order and will be fitted ASAP. Lits more work is required on that MH, but we'll get it dry and warm first.

31/10/2025

It has been quite a busy and varied time of late. I took a short ( ok, long... two week) break away to a couple of the Western Isles and parts of Scotland. A circum-navigation of both Skye and Mull, then a re-routed sojourn to my favourite spot on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula. I even got caught up (literally) in Storm Amy when driving home on the Saturday, dodging fallen trees, powerlines and telegraph poles and even had to stop and climb up onto my Transit roof to unhitch a comms cable that had caught itself on my woodstove chimney due to its snapped pole taking the line across the road.
Anyway, back to work and boy, how varied has that been... drysuit repairs, sorting out a vanlifer's solar and battery woes (poorly fitted by the previous owner), fixing ill-fitting sliding door on the same van, diagnosing and fixing poorly stop/start battery on a local business owners car, arranging the replacement of faulty electrical isolators in another outlet, further augmenting/improving my own van's woodstove, welding/replacing the long, sliding door sill on another Transit, fitting a new solar power system to a tinyhouse build and fitting a trace heating system to my outdoor water pipes.
Variety, truly is the spice of life!

13/08/2025

Wow! That was one very hot day!
Yesterday evening I finished the day attending to "a smell of gas in the cupboard" on a newly fitted out campervan ( not one of mine, I have to say). A quick spray with leak detector and a quick tightening of the offending gland and we're back on track and leak free.
After working all day on the finishing aspects of the campervan I've been converting for a client, I had a look at the Bauer Oceanus 300bar High Pressure Breathing Air Compressor the owner brought in from Inverness. Its all working as it should now. I even tested it with a fill of one of my own 15l cylinders... đŸ˜‰
I also managed to spray paint the new wings for the Transit, after sanding down the atrocious priming coat they came with! Wow!

09/08/2025

It's been a bit busy here!
Campervan builds ongoing (nearly completed), Dacia Duster in for diagnostics and a faulty injection replacement, my Renault Master campervan sold to a new vanlifer, my own Transit brokedown as I was trying to escape for a short break... turns out, after dropping the tank to fit a new in-tank fuel pump, that the breakdown was simply due to faulty/corroded connectors in the fuse and relay box. Pah!
Yesterday, I had a Bauer Oceanic, petrol compressor come in from Inverness, for investigation and repair. It's not providing 300bar...

12/04/2025

I've been somewhat neglecting this page over the past couple of years, mainly down to working in some "sensitive/secretive" places.
However, I am now back working in my own yards and workshops more frequently (and freely) repairing and building (rebuilding, in one particular case) campervans and repairing drysuits for paddlers and divers once again.

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