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On 18 Aug 2003 at 20:10, Russ wolfe wrote: > 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. Yeah, this is amazingly good. > 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 think it's time I checked mine. I never thought much about it until you mentioned calibration, as most of the cars I check have been right on. I almost never have to adjust one unless it is SO far off that it's clear that it's been messed with. Russ, would you please send me your mailing address. thanks, -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org