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One of the listee's sent me his fuel pressure gage for calibration check. I thought I would post the results to the list. This was a new hardware store varity gage, not an expensive one. The master gage was calibrated on 7-24-03. his gage: master digital gage 10 psi 8.98 20 psi 18.43 30 psi 27.99 40 psi 37.88 50 psi 47.48 60 psi 57.12 70 psi 67.88 80 psi 78.30 90 psi 88.67 100 psi 98.84 This gage does not seem to be too bad for a hardware store gage. While I was at it, I thought I would check my own gage that I have been using for the past 30 years. Mine is a 0-60 psi gage. I found that at 30 psi on my gage, I got a reading of 26.23 psi on the master gage. Almost 4 psi off. Luckily, I set my fuel pressure at 32 psi, which means that I was actually at 28 psi, still within range. I then went to our tool crib at work, and got 2 brand new medium quality gages. The first one was off by almost 1.5 psi at 30 psi. The other was only off by .5 psi. Just some info to pass along. At least I know where I am at now. And if anyone else wants their gage checked, I do it for just the postage. I will not try and recalibrate them, as most gages are not designed to be calibrated until you get up into the $100 price range. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org