Scary gauge

[joshua43214]

There is little Italian resturaunt near my house, I stoped in to get carry out and found this thing bolted to the wall. An old timer at the bar thought it had something to do with the space program, but all the other gauges where nautical in nature. I have no idea what this was originaly attatched to, but I am sure glad I never had to stand over it.

[Rus]

The gauge measures in lb/square inch. This is force per unit area, which is pressure. So its a pressure gauge of some sort. Just my $.02

[joshua43214]

The gauge measures in lb/square inch. This is force per unit area, which is pressure. So its a pressure gauge of some sort. Just my $.02

"presure" is a bit of an understatement lol

[632 Regal]

maybe some sort of boiler or nuclear project...go back and talk with the owner, those be some lots of pressures there

[Jon K]

Can be anything - maybe a steam train or something crazy like that who knows.

I wonder if it will move the gauge if it sees 9 psi... :)

[angrypancake]

^ just caused seizure number 19

[Zeuk in Oz]

There is little Italian resturaunt near my house, I stoped in to get carry out and found this thing bolted to the wall. An old timer at the bar thought it had something to do with the space program, but all the other gauges where nautical in nature. I have no idea what this was originaly attatched to, but I am sure glad I never had to stand over it.
Submarine pressure gauge ?

[shogun]

http://www.desgranges.com/html-gb/fset.html?r3/r3.html

[632 Regal]

???

http://www.desgranges.com/html-gb/fset.html?r3/r3.html

[shogun]

That is the homepage of the maker. It says they deliver their gauges to the German Army, Airforce, Airspace industry etc.
Just to give you an idea for what their (Budenberg) products are made for.

[joshua43214]

To put this in proper perspective, the Titanic sits at 6000 PSI, the deepest part of the ocean inthe Mariana trench is about 15,000 PSI. The Titanic itself took 35,000 PSI to break it in half.

A high pressure steam engine runs at about 900PSI, The high pressure hydrolic hoses on industrial equipment have a working pressure of about 5000PSI. It takes about 3000PSI to crush a car.

hmmm I am just full of useless trivia tonight.

[stx133]

30,000 PSI is about 2000 Bar or 2000x atmospheric pressure. Gauges are usually desiged to run at 1/2 scale for industrial service, still impressive amounts os grunt..

[Alexlind123]

I cant even begin to image what would use such high pressures...

[Paul in NZ]

what sort of pressures do steam boilers run?.And the newer ship engines are gas(steam) turbines arent they?

[NovceGuru]

It's probably to measure the extreme amounts of excess gas emanating from Jeff.....:)

[Qube]

Heh. Take one of those and bolt it onto your dash for the ultimate upgrade! Oh yeah... I routinely run 30000 psi.

[Bill R.]

50 ton press that we used for axle bearings etc. and it had a pressure gauge similar to this , just to let us know how high the operating pressure was...and when things were getting ready to blow up, there were protective cages you could put around bearings to contain them if they blew up while pressing them out.



There is little Italian resturaunt near my house, I stoped in to get carry out and found this thing bolted to the wall. An old timer at the bar thought it had something to do with the space program, but all the other gauges where nautical in nature. I have no idea what this was originaly attatched to, but I am sure glad I never had to stand over it.

[Nick.Hay]

Its Viktor's (VSmotor) M5 boost gauge!! :D :D



Now THIS is the scary gauge!!!
New M5 anyone??

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1235/m5speedo330b7qj.jpg

[632 Regal]

zis like 200 MPH?
New M5 anyone??

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[wingman]

I can imagine that something like a big boiler or whatever could handle the pressure but I'd be a bit concerned about those little threads that attach the gauge to the boiler:(