Where to find a mechanical rpm gauge?
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Topic: Where to find a mechanical rpm gauge?
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Subject: Where to find a mechanical rpm gauge?
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 6:20pm
| Not sure what it’s called but you can hold it against the end of a spinning shaft and read rpm like on an electric motor. |
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Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 6:22pm
| Test tachometer |
Posted By: exSW
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 6:24pm
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I got mine off eBay.
"Hand tach" ------------- Learning AC...slowly |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 7:33pm
Thank you guys. I found a couple old ones on eBay that look like new. |
Thad in AR. wrote:Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 7:49pm
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I have one like this. Has large AC letters stamped on the back. G https://www.ebay.com/itm/265817421841?hash=item3de3f3f811:g:ygsAAOSw01Zi7vWf&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoMYoYU4D2LlWl%2BMnEDhpVep9%2FosG0wnQ5iSDakBrrbrHlOMTdQO5UePjnueqxDWCCIiO3OxkXTPgT%2FVo0cBuwvEd5rOZUknn%2FlGoIiMNus5pSeh%2FTfePgg6G7LjzY2nXNhhKwgMnZJltAioPrapVkPzgNC427ejRjq6i2XX2Sezgz9iQQ4gdI1qokED35YiqZ7BhVNPuPIGBvkFJiq8j9Ec%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4yszK6kYQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.ebay.com/itm/265817421841?hash=item3de3f3f811:g:ygsAAOSw01Zi7vWf&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoMYoYU4D2LlWl%2BMnEDhpVep9%2FosG0wnQ5iSDakBrrbrHlOMTdQO5UePjnueqxDWCCIiO3OxkXTPgT%2FVo0cBuwvEd5rOZUknn%2FlGoIiMNus5pSeh%2FTfePgg6G7LjzY2nXNhhKwgMnZJltAioPrapVkPzgNC427ejRjq6i2XX2Sezgz9iQQ4gdI1qokED35YiqZ7BhVNPuPIGBvkFJiq8j9Ec%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4yszK6kYQ |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 9:04pm
| I bought mine from an auto parts store when I owned that POS green combine umpteen years ago. they still make new ones yet, |
Posted By: 200Tom1
Date Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 11:51pm
| I got mine at NAPA manny years ago. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2022 at 5:05am
That’s exactly like what my dad had when I was a young’en. I didn’t see it last night and n my search. I don’t have an eBay account but my wife can get me one when she gets home. |
Posted By: plummerscarin
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2022 at 7:23am
I have that same one as well left over from Dad's shop. Use it to set RPMs on the Hesston self propelled mower/conditioner |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2022 at 10:15am
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Mine is an antique Stewart-Warner hand held mechanical tach, and it works great... in EITHER direction... IIRC, it was at a garage sale for $5... ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |