tire gauge
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Stick with a Schrader (sp?) Brand gauge, or at least one that is made in the USA, preferably a dial type and NEVER use it to check fuel pressure or use it on tires that contain water ie tractor tires, etc.
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It's easy enough to make your own. All you need is the gauge, a valve, a tee, the chuck and a quik connect for your airline. Here's my 3in1 tool that works great. With the line connected you open the valve to fill the tire, close the valve to check the pressure and if you need to deflate some just disconnect the line and open the valve.
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MY air compressor konked out a while back so I go 4 miles down the road to the truck stop to get air. Right now is a really busy time and I'd just as soon buy a decent one for now. Anyone? But thanks for the idea, I'm sure I'll do that eventually.
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Nice setup blue!!!!!!!!!
I run a chepo digital. My guage on my filler is always off and doesn't read very well anymore.
I always find dial guages to be better then the old style slide outs.
But you cannot beat a decent digital.
If you have a good dial guage though, you can easily get all your tires very close.
Just using a regular air chuck seems boring after you have a nice system to do your air pressure.
I run a chepo digital. My guage on my filler is always off and doesn't read very well anymore.
I always find dial guages to be better then the old style slide outs.
But you cannot beat a decent digital.
If you have a good dial guage though, you can easily get all your tires very close.
Just using a regular air chuck seems boring after you have a nice system to do your air pressure.
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are we talking about just a normal tire gauge here or am i missing something? wal mart has two different types by campbell hausfield and ive never had any trouble out of them. one is for truck tires and goes up to about 75 psi and the other is the regular car gauge that goes up to about 50 psi. i think i paid about 50 cents for mine about 10 years ago and its worked fine.
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are we talking about just a normal tire gauge here or am i missing something? wal mart has two different types by campbell hausfield and ive never had any trouble out of them. one is for truck tires and goes up to about 75 psi and the other is the regular car gauge that goes up to about 50 psi. i think i paid about 50 cents for mine about 10 years ago and its worked fine.
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go to wal mart. walk to the automotive section. they have two light duty tire gauges and one heavy duty gauge. one of the light duty gauges is made for cars. the other one is made for trucks(and duallys), but only goes up to something like 75 psi. the heavy duty one will work on anything. its designed specifically for duallys and rv's. and it goes up to 150 psi. or go to any truck stop in america and theres a pretty good chance they will have one too. since they do tend to get a lot of big rigs there.
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just my .02 though.
i have a 0 - 20 psi liquid filled tire gauge setup gauge but i dont think that will help you!
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not everyone wants to make something that they can go to the store and buy for a tenth of the cost and effort. and besides, the OP asked where he could BUY one at. someone replied with how to make one and he wrote back and asked for a website or store where he could BUY one. then someone else wrote back and said to make one. and he replied YET AGAIN that he is busy and just wants to BUY one.
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not trying to be a smart a$$, but a couple of people need to read what the guy wants before being a smart a$$ to me.