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cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Stick pressure gauges are bad.

  Bourdon pressure gauges are the only pressure gauge to get. (Not bourdon brand but one that uses what is known as a bourdon tube).

  They are analogue AND reliable over the long term.

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  • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Gonna have to check these out. Unfortunately for my wife, now I have a reason to go to the hardware store lol

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  • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s cool looking, I’ll look into those

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  • dreamkeeper@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah these are great. I’ve had one for years now without issue and they’re accurate.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also what’s the hate on the tire gauge? Does another kind exist other than a slide stick? Does another fancier kind even need to exist?

  Allow me to present this abomination:

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why make a tire pressure gauge that needs batteries? Oh just what I want, to pull my bulky ass tire gauge out of my glove compartment and find it’s got corroded dead ass batteries cause it’s been sitting in there for a year untouched.

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    • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Beats me.

      But it’s definitely a thing that exists. I, unfortunately, got one as a birthday present once, way back when. Used it maybe once or twice, then went back to a normal slide gauge and haven’t touched it since.

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Consistency. You can take 3 readings in a row with that stick and get 3 wildly different results. I have a $20 digital one from decades ago that gives me the same reading withing 5kPa on each try.

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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That’s mostly a quality and skill issue. People cheap out and buy low quality gages. My 40 year old stick gage is as accurate as is needed and very repeatable in my hands. And it measures up to 150psi.

        And remember, this stuff isn’t that accurate anyway. It just good enough and that’s it.

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  • jownz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The battery died in mine.

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  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have one of those in my glovebox. I think I bought it in 2003. My 2003 manual jap econobox has no need for TPMS. If a tyre is 30kPa too low, you can feel it.

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Found a compact dial gauge version and it’s so much better than those stupid sticks.

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• bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They exist with a round dial as well. Personally I don’t measure my tire pressure, ever. My car will tell me if one is low, and I’d go to a gas station to fill them to spec. Although lately I got a little compressor which goes in the cigarette lighter, which just lets you enter the desired pressure. I use that for the car, bikes, footballs and whatever else needs to be pumped to a given pressure.

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