*Quality* tire pressure guage - Advice?

As my title says, my pressure guage bit the dust. It was a mechanical Ashcroft guage, and it's no longer sitting at 0. (Closer to 5) and the needle is bent from hitting the return stop inside the guage. (It's 10 years old)

So now I need a new guage. I looked around, and saw cheapo garbage pressure gauges for $9 bucks. I've learned my buy once cry once, long ago when I started LR shooting. It's the same reason I plopped down $50 for my Lincoln grease gun, instead of $10 at autozone.


With that said, can anyone recommend a good mechanical guage, that will last another 10 years? I'm looking for a no- frills, built to last, guage. I also despise batteries.

I figured the wheel and tire section would have some good responses.

 

All I can say is "good luck"

I've got probably 20 gauges.
Of the "high end" (dial) type gauges, they were all within $5 of each other, and there's a 10psi variance between the one that reads lowest and the one that reads highest.

Just pick ONE "quality" gauge, select an inflation point that you are comfortable with, and go by THAT gauge.
It doesn't matter if it's 30 or 35psi. As long as you are consistent, you're good to go.

 

http://www.longacreracing.com/catalog/item.asp?id=217&catid=8

I've got the older model #50414, but I really like this gauge and the company!

 

a 10 psi difference seems like a lot. How can it be so hard to manufacture a quality gauge?

 

Child labor.
No federal standards for calibration.