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And today's video is quite a long one.
There's a lot of new information
that I need to share with you.
So if you like, you can hit pause,
go and grab yourself a nice hot cuppa
or a cold beer or little cheeky glass of scotch.
It's Friday after all find a nice comfy chair
and I'll talk you through it.
So the first piece of news I have for you is that "SoClean"
the makers of those ozone sanitizers,
those CPAP cleaning products are suing Phillips
for over 200 million dollars in damages.
This is massive news.
And you might remember
when Phillips first announced the recall,
they put a lot of blame on ozone
as the major Cause for the recall.
People were using these unauthorized CPAP cleaning products
and everyone knew they were referring to "SoClean".
And since then it's done a lot of damage to their business,
as you can, as you would expect.
And now SoClean's come out swinging
with this lawsuit saying, "Oh,
hold on, "Franz" van recall.
It's not our fault.
Your foam was shit to begin with,
and regardless of people using "SoClean" products.
You still would have had to have had a recall anyway,
because your foam is toxic
and it degrades from heat and humidity also."
So they might have a point.
It'll be really interesting to see how that plays out.
Now, personally,
I do feel that ozone does degrade the foam,
and the reason being is that I've seen
a lot of evidence to support that argument.
And also I've done a few experiments myself,
which some of you might have seen, if you want to watch one,
click the link above
where it's not a real world, real life experiment.
I didn't use a "SoClean" machine,
but I did see the effects of ozone on the foam.
And it was pretty nasty,
rather foam was basically melting in my hands.
Now on top of all of this,
there's also a proposed
class action against "SoClean"
from the users of the product.
It's a 46 page document, it's quite lengthy.
I'm not going to go through it all.
Basically the allegations are that "SoClean" misled
consumers into believing that their product was safe.
And this proposed class action basically
says that it's not safe,
and here's a little extract from
the document.
According to the lawsuit,
the levels of ozone generated by SoClean's devices
are as much as 560 times the FDA limit.
That's just one little piece of that document,
that I found interesting.
So that's pretty huge news.
So you've got "SoClean" suing Philips,
and then you've got this class action
from the users against "SoClean",
it's the circus all over again,
a whole lot of drama.
Now not long after Phillips announced the recall,
Res Med were quick to announce a
statement regarding the safety of their CPAP machines.
They jumped on the front foot and said,
"Hey guys, it's okay. Our machines are safe.
We don't use the same foam as Phillips.
Everything is all right, carry on."
And I don't know if that statement is a
100 percent accurate.
I've seen a lot of evidences that suggest
that ozone still affects the "Res Med" foam as well
and causes degradation.
And I'm gonna show you some of that evidence now.
Now, if you've never used an ozone machine before,
I think that statement is very accurate.
I don't think you have anything to worry about,
but if you're someone who does have a
"ResMed AirSense 10" machine or another ResMed machine,
and you've been using an ozone cleaning for any significant
period of time, months to a year, year to two years,
whatever it is,
then you might want to pay close attention.
Now I have a lot of information on this,
but I'm just going to share
with you a selected few examples.
I'm going to start with some forum posts.
Some of these forum posts, date back a bit,
which is great because it shows that
these problems were happening well before 2021.
So this first one's from September, 2019.
Hello, has anyone seen particles
like this floating in their ResMed's water tank?
I've been using the machine for two years.
I clean it every week and use "SoClean" every day.
The particles are green in color,
and almost looked like fibers.
The particles are also inside the tubing
inside of the machine.
They went inside the machine, took it apart
and found inside the machine the foam breaking down,
as you can see in the pictures.
And this is a little comment after
on the thread.
So when you have forums, you have a thread
and everyone gets to comment,
and this was an interesting one.
I've seen this many times repairing CPAPS
I have a "Dream Station" blower chamber on my desk
at the moment the same way.
Something is deteriorating the foam
ozone air freshener.
This is back in 2019,
two years before foam gate.
Very interesting.
All right. So clearly back then,
there was already problems starting to emerge.
Another one,
"Res Med" Air Sense 10 air pump foam filter
was getting pieces of foam blown into the water tank.
Disassembled and found that 75% of the round foam filter
at the top of the air pump.
That's the motor, the turbine had disintegrated.
I think it was caused by ozone
from daily sanitizing using "SoClean".
I reassembled without the filter in place,
but want to buy a replacement.
Does anyone have part's diagram
that identifies the part number
and a source for purchasing one?
Right now? This one was
August, 2020.
Once again before foam gate.
The next post is from July 18th, 2021.
So just after foam gate
ResMed AirSense 10, and SoClean issues. See pitchers.
I've had a ResMed AirSense 10 for a little over a year.
Upon recommendations from my friend
I also purchased the SoClean 2.
It's been fine until the last few weeks.
I started noticing black specks
in the water chamber of a morning.
That's a common thing here.
People noticing foam in the water chamber,
so keep an eye out for foam in the water chamber.
Anything that doesn't look like it should be there.
I'm pretty good at cleaning the parts.
I cleaned everything again, but still
noticed there was foam in the water chamber.
I went to YouTube,
to see how to disassemble the CPAP machine.
That's when I found the foam in pieces.
Now I know where the black pieces are coming from.
I'm ready to sue "Res Med",
then I see the warranty doesn't cover
because of the "SoClean".
So there's a few posts. I've got a lot of posts, all right,
lots of them.
But I've also started getting
a number of emails from viewers.
When they first started coming through
When Phillips announced the recall,
I did think they were potentially fake.
So I do have to apologize to those people
that were sending them through because I sort of
disowned them.
(narrator laughing)
Didn't really give them the time of day, But
look,
I do believe they are genuine now. So apologies.
And this is one from Fred. Anyway, I've got a few of them.
I have a "Res Med AirSense 10".
I've had it for four and a half years.
I've also been using "SoClean"
for three or three and a half years.
I've started see crap in my water tank
after watching your video on how to take the machine apart.
I noticed the foam had completely broken down,
and was all inside my motor with the foam dust.
I have the pictures.
Until this happened, I had no idea of any
other machines with foam issues.
I'm sure I have inhaled the foam particles.
Let me know if you're interested.
I've been in touch with "Res Med",
but they have seem to have gone silent.
So there's just a few of the many examples that I have.
But I think the evidence is pretty clear,
and that is that ozone certainly can affect
the Res Med foam and cause degradation.
So if you're someone
who does have a "Res Med" Ai Sense 10 or S9 machine,
whatever you've got,
if you've been using ozone to clean your device
for any extended period of time,
you definitely need to be aware,
and you need to keep a lookout in your water chamber,
and look for any evidence of the foam degradation.
You'll start to see little particles and stuff.
And if you want to,
I'm going to show you now
how you can take apart your AirSense 10..
If you want to check that foam disc,
and check the structure and integrity of the foam,
and you only need to do this.
If you're someone who's been using ozone
for an extended period of time.
And it's totally up to you,
if you want to do this.
And you feel like you're capable of doing this,
it's not too hard, but at the same time,
if you try it and you it up,
don't come and blame old mate Nico here. Right?
Because I'm only trying to help.
All right, So let's have a look
and I'll show you how to take it apart
and check the foam disc. And I haven't
checked the foam disc in this machine.
This is a used device, so it'll be interesting to see
how it's looking, but I imagine it's looking pretty good.
And
I just want to clarify that
I don't think "Res Med" needs to have a recall,
or anything like that.
You know for, I don't think their foam is toxic.
I think their foam is fine,
but it's clear that it can degrade from ozone.
All right, let's have a look.
Alrighty. Now, normally when I'm working on CPAP machines,
I use this
it's a little "IFIXIT" kit.
It's cool. You can pick them up on Amazon.
I'll put a link in the description where you can get it,
but it's just got all these gray little screwdriver heads
so any sort of work at home electronics,
it comes in handy all the time, but you wouldn't believe it.
This one here, the T10 hex head, that's the one I need.
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And I don't know what I've done with it at somewhere,
but normally you just take this out,
and then you just put it in
in here but,
for the time being I've had to resort to using
instead,
which I don't recommend.
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The old duo.
And that's sort of what it looks like
a little,
little hex head.
Sorry about those bad noise.
Right. But anyway, let's do it so
this is how I do it.
Now, there'll be "Res Med" engineers and mechanics
looking at me right now going,
you're an absolute amateur but,
at the same time, I don't care.
This is how I do it. That just pops off.
I'll show you what I did there. Sorry,
just that little part there.
You see a little groove, just get your nail in there.
Just pops up, that's the little
front
shelf,
and I just pop this off as well. Just pull
there it goes see that just pops off.
This little click wheel.
Now,
you take out the humidifier chamber,
flip the old girl over
now on the back of what I take out is
1,
2,
3,
4.
This here is where your heater plate is
for your humidifier, So you'd only need to take this off,
If you were changing the fuse,
or you had a problem with your humidifier.
Anyway, we'll just take these out.
(drilling machine drills)
And then
you just got the two here
at the front. They're all the same size,
which is handy so
Whoop.
(drilling machine drills)
whoop.
And now we can take off the whole shell.
So this whole plastic casing,
and it sort of clips in here
at the back. I don't know if you can
get it from the back. I normally get it
from the side let's have a look.
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(shelf opens)
You can get it from the back as well.
Just be careful when you're taking it off though.
So that's the
that's the show, you can sort of
see the clips there as well at the front.
So just be careful when you're taking that off,
that you don't rip this little section here,
this little ribbon section.
That's your heated tube
connects into the
PCB board.
All right. So try not to rip that part.
Otherwise your headed tube is not going to work.
But now we can sort of just pop off this little part here.
This is your cellular modem.
So if you disconnect that you're disconnecting your Wi-Fi,
the machine won't send data
to
"Res Med",
which is
which is pretty cool, but
there it is your cellular modem.
So that's what they use to keep track of you.
Read your dreams
all your naughty dreams
SD Card in there probably don't need to take that out but,
probably if you want.
All right. So now we're
getting to the crux of it.
There's just this little part here.
There's one more part just here on the side,
just got a clip see that clip at the back.
Just pull that clip.
Now what I do is I just fold that
over the back like that. Just be gentle with it,
leave it down.
And now here's the motor casing
where the foam is pretty straightforward.
It's just the one screw here.
(drilling machine drills)
And then there's your casing.
And now all we've got to take out its 1, 2, 3 screws
and then the foam is just in here.
(drilling machine drills)
All right, this is the moment,
you've all been waiting for.
(sings)
Okay.
There it is.
That's the foam and
that is some good looking foam right there.
That's exactly what you want to see.
And what you can do is you just feel it.
I mean, that looks,
it looks nice. It's all in shape.
No problems, good structure, good integrity,
perfect foam, very strong.
And so, yeah, if it's like that,
you got no problems.
You can put it back in,
put the machine back together
and away you go, which we'll do now.
But if it's looking terrible,
if it's all falling to pieces,
then you've got a little bit of a problem
because there's a chance
that it's all sucked into your turbine here.
And if it's in there,
you know, you're gonna have to blow some hair and try
and sort it out, but
not good if it's in there.
All right. So let's put it back together anyway.
So it just fits on,
there you can see it's got a little cutout
where the wires go.
and then we put our
turbine shell
back together again,
all just sort of fits in together.
Put the screws back in one at a time
slots in under that little part there.
It Just,
slots into there.
All right, let's have a look?
You can see it's sort of latched in,
everything's sort of matching up.
Put the screw back in the top.
Now we just fold over.
the lid again.
Just make sure these little blue things match up
because that's your pressure sensors.
Okay, so make sure here that matches up. Nice.
These wires just tuck in under that,
just making sure everything skates back in the same.
Exactly the same way again.
We're just gonna connect up the little parts
that we took off here.
Goes in here the back.
Side panel, just slots on there.
You can leave this off if you want,
or you can put it back on if you want,
to connect back up to ResMed.
The cellular modem,
pushes on.
Cool.
And then, just gonna
put the shell back on
so stuff in the back just appears over the front.
The screws back in, your chamber back in.
If you want to on the back here, more screws.
Button on
And you're done pretty easy.
All right, that's it guys.
Thanks for watching.
I just wanted to share that information with you,
give you the heads up because I know it's a lot to take in,
but at the same time, you're better off knowing,
especially if you're someone
who's used an ozone cleaner in the past.
At least they have keep an eye out.
And if you want, you can check your foam,
make sure that foam is not getting sucked into the blowout,
ruining your device,
but also potentially ruining your lungs.
If you enjoyed the video, make sure you give the thumbs up,
share it with your mates
and as always look out for one another
and I'll see you next time.
Have a great day, Bye.