Cheap pressure gauges.

[Maurice Cox 1Participant @mauricecox1]

Just been into The Plumb Centre. They have a special offer at the moment. Its a two inch diameter pressure gauge on an armoured hose. It reads to 160 psi. Also Bar and that metric one. £4.17 plus v.a.t! Looks quite robust. Good for boiler testing? I assume these offers are across all their stores . I was in the High Wycombe one.

Maurice

[Maurice Cox 1Participant @mauricecox1]

[Swarf, Mostly!Participant @swarfmostly]

Hi there, Maurice,

I went to my nearest Plumb Centre branch (Horndean, Hampshire) today – they didn't know anything about a special offer on pressure gauges! All I was offered was a gauge with hose for £13-ish.

The other end of the hose has a 3/4" BSP union nut made of plastic (similar to the end of a washing machine hose). Seems a bit on the big side for 'our' purposes!

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Swarf, that just about sounds like one that I have, made to fit on a hose tap in the garden to check the water pressure, our pressure here ranges from very little, to quite a bit less.

Ian S C

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I got a lovely one from Machine Mart several years ago for setting the pressure of a car LPG regulator. Worked really well and I've since used it to test my own simple boilers (which are below the bar-litre limit).

Neil

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