red929 : Quote (Skully @ May 23 2003, 7:51pm)Quote (nedro @ May 23 2003, 5:18pm)Which brings me to ask, 'How on Earth do you know it's spot on?' I mean Who has the standard and who calibrated it?
That's what I was wondering.
Actually, I do ... that's what I do for a living I'm a metrologist. No, not a weatherman .. that's a meteorologist!
BTW, the guage I bought from Fastlap is the same Quickcar one SomeStrangeGuy is talking about. Good
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So is there a way to check the accuracy of your guage? I'd like to be able to do that if possible. Even if you buy a new guage there's guarranty it's accurate. I've had the same Blue Point dial guage 0-100 psi for 15 years or more and still trust it. But why? Who knows.
I have 3 regular stick type guages also and just checked them on the same tire I got 36 on the dial, then 31 32 and 34 on the sticks, then back on the dial one more time at just over 35 (loss of air).
I would think the dial would stay more accurate because the stick type uses friction on the meter and would change with age, But that's just a guess.