SpudFiles

Hey I called my local Home Depot, and sure enough, it was the same person who didn't know what pressure rated PVC pipe was. I asked if they carried pressure gauges, and the person didn't know what they were. They actually had to hook me up with the head of the plumbing department. He said he "couldn't find" the kind of pressure gauge I needed. Should I look there myself or search elsewhere?
If I'm wasting forum space, feel free to delete this.

Check in the tools section by the Air Compressors they usually have replacment ones. If you can't get one there you can get it from www.McMaster.com. Or www.surpluscenter.com

So would something like this work? (I'm not planning to pump it up too high)
http://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?U ... D&catname=

Looks like a great little guage! You will want to consider tapping if you havn't already.

I'm gonna start working on my tapping as soon as I can.

Get hold of the guy in the air tool section. That's where there at. The brand should be Campbell Hausfeld or something like that. The threads are 1/4".

Wow I really spend too much time at HD

lol just a little too much time

Oh and Spudstuff, that picture with the shark attacking the person on the ladder under the helicopter is a proven fake. A shark under the Golden Gate Bridge? Ah well, most of them are, but it's still cool!
(sorry, just clicked on it for fun)
Anyway, would my bike shop sell me a schrader (spelling?) valve?

check plumbing supply stores for a schrader, they are commonly used on pressure tanks for home water systems.

I was there today and they had them. I would just go there and look.

Well, I've worked at Home Depot before and we had pressure gauges in both the air power (compressor) section as well as right next to the sprinkler valves in the plumbing section.

yeah I saw them in the plumbing section. It sounds like you were just talking to an idiot and you should just go there.

The truth is that most of teh peopel that work at home depot, lowes or radioshack dont know what they are doing.

^^^Yep, total truth spoken there.

And they won't let me work there just because I'm seventeen. Even just pushing in buggies all day, you gotta be eighteen.