myredracer wrote:
Thanks for the tip on the gauge. If I mount like you suggest, which I will now, the lettering will be upside down, but not a big deal. Wonder why they would make them that way unless they're normally used for air?
H'mm OK some how you managed to get a top mount gauge. That is semi hard to do... At least in the industrial world. In fact I even tried to find one where the process connection is on top. Obviously they make them as you have one...LOL
Here is one source of industrial gages we buy. Tried to find a more common lumber yard version verses the higher end industrial ones.
http://www.ashcroft.com/products/pressure_gauges/commercial/Type-1005-Gauge.cfm#When one goes into a gauge catalog to order one they have to select the process connection. There is "lower" mount. Means the NPT stem in this case in on the bottom, there is a "back" mount. Means the NPT stem goes out the back of the unit. And this seems to be a "top" mount. I have never actually ordered one of them.
Top mounts obviously do exist, you have one... Just do not know if they are all that common and may not have anything to do specific with compressed air systems.
Learn something new every day!
Thanks
PS Here is another one we use in more the hydraulic world. I can't find a top mount there either.
http://www.ashcroft.com/products/pressure_gauges/commercial/Type-1005-Gauge.cfm#What brand gauge doe you have?
Well, Watts actually offers them for the residential line. Who would a thunk it?
http://www.watts.com/pages/_products_details.asp?pid=7848