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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: BEN DAVISON CLEANING on May 25, 2011, 10:55:01 pm

Title: water in psi gauge
Post by: BEN DAVISON CLEANING on May 25, 2011, 10:55:01 pm

this may sound stupid but is this normal :-\

Title: Re: water in psi gauge
Post by: john martin on May 25, 2011, 11:05:51 pm

Chances are its an oil filled gauge ... oil to prevent moisture affecting accuracy , moving parts and prolonging  life ... i think .

Title: Re: water in psi gauge
Post by: BEN DAVISON CLEANING on May 25, 2011, 11:08:00 pm

that makes sense cheers john :)

Title: Re: water in psi gauge
Post by: AJB on May 25, 2011, 11:23:58 pm

It's Glycerine, and it's there to damp the needle.
If it leaks out you will find the needle pulses.

Title: Re: water in psi gauge
Post by: brencarpetman on May 27, 2011, 09:54:18 am

Yeah it's definitely an oily substance glycerine is what the man said. I know because my gauge wasn't goin back to zero but staying at two hundred, so I decided to take the little black nipple off cos I thought there might be air trapped inside, and the slippery nipple popped inside( that's what she said last night). Anyways I had to plug the bleeping thing with a bit of gripfill, love the stuff use it on everthing :D