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Originally Posted by Arne2
When I worked selling and servicing tires years ago, our shop had a master dial type that we used to test our pencil gauges against. I don't recall the brand of that gauge. Back in those days (I left that career in the late 90s), we generally used Dill pencil gauges in the shop, which seemed pretty good out of the box.
I still use 3 Dill pencil gauges that date to that former career, which I periodically check against a digital that I only use for calibration checks. Like you, the digital seems like overkill to me for normal use.
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I guess I've just had bad luck with the pencil ones.
One time I was out of town on a business trip and my wife and daughter called. The TPMS warning light came on and they were trying to figure out how to use the compressor and couldn't find the gauge. I had taken my daughter to the TireRack Street Survival school and in the goody bag was a cheap pencil style gauge. I had told her to throw that one away. She didn't and that was the only one they could find. I explained how to turn on the compressor over the phone and they inflated the tire. I got home and checked the tire pressure. It was 50psi! Should've been 30. Sure enough 30 was what the the pencil gauge read. Obviously it was a cheap giveaway thing but I showed that to both of them and explained that was why I told them to throw it away.