Making a gauge

[y2jrock60]

Me and my friend both have angel speeds. We are going to split the price for an angel tool kit. We want to adjust our lpr but we both have LPR 450 Preset tanks. I seen that you could make a gauge that could read the pressure of the mini reg so you chould set it at 350. I was wondering how do you make that guage. We have a bottomline. Iam assuming you can buy a 12 dollar gauge and screw it in the hole. Is that all you need or do you need something else. THxxxxx

[Emmit]

if you really wanted to drill and tap the flash tank sure you could do it, it will take some patience tho. Just make sure that the tank threads are the same as those on the tap or you not only just wasted your time, but you made your Flash Tank unuseable as well.

[PlazmaSpeed]

Me and my friend both have angel speeds. We are going to split the price for an angel tool kit. We want to adjust our lpr but we both have LPR 450 Preset tanks. I seen that you could make a gauge that could read the pressure of the mini reg so you chould set it at 350. I was wondering how do you make that guage. We have a bottomline. Iam assuming you can buy a 12 dollar gauge and screw it in the hole. Is that all you need or do you need something else. THxxxxx


Save yourself the headache and buy yourself a mini guage, in the long run you'll be better off.

[y2jrock60]

Iam not talking a bout puttinga gauge on the flash tank. Iam talking about making a gauge out of a bottemline that you could screw onto the mini reg. Ken Crane was talking about it in a LPR adjustment thread but he doesnt really go in detail. I want to make one of those not drill out my flash tank. thxxxx

[Emmit]

I'm sorry I mistook what you meant...sounds like what you're after is a deadhead. Lots of shops have them and use them for testing purposes in their shop.

You could probably just buy a regular ASA adapter, and gauge and then screw the gauge into the ASA adapter, blank off the other side, and you'd be good to go. Then you just screw the tank into the ASA adapter and you can tell what the pressure is. Only problem would be venting the air, so I'd suggest perhaps a short length of hose with a slide check or something like that. Shouldn't be too terribly hard to make your own if you think about it.

[crashdan]

thats a good idea for teh slide check or bleed valve, never thought of that, we just have asa's with guages

[Emmit]

that's probably the easiest way to vent the line so you can remove the adapter easier.