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    Just wondered how accurate you think your non-digital gauges are ???
    And how you calibrate them, i have calibrated my with a bottle of gas but now read wrong at zero pressure.

    CB



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    Re: gauge accuracy

    Quote Originally Posted by chillyblue View Post
    Just wondered how accurate you think your non-digital gauges are ???
    And how you calibrate them, i have calibrated my with a bottle of gas but now read wrong at zero pressure.

    CB

    I trust my gauges and the dry ones do need ressetting to zero every few weeks. Because they are in the van they get bumped and do lose their zero.

    I use good gauges that have the oil dampner inside and they do not need zeroing very often, but they still require changing every few years.

    Cheers taz.

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    Re: gauge accuracy

    You could always buy a pressure calibration tester

    http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/s...duct&R=4792472

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    Re: gauge accuracy

    Quote Originally Posted by frank View Post
    You could always buy a pressure calibration tester

    http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/s...duct&R=4792472

    At £1,655.00 I'll have two please one for every day use and one for weekends .

    When I worked at Hussmanns to get the ISO 9000 rating or whatever it was, we had a calibration bay where all our tools and equipment were calibrated on a regular basis.


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    Re: gauge accuracy

    Nice thought, but at that price i would need a loan and the interest rates are to high at the moment.

    LOL

    CB

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    Re: gauge accuracy

    Being a frugal person i just keep a good quality guage with a tee and use it as a standard and calibrate the work guage to it and calibrate it at the middle scale about where I use it.
    My cheap cal
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