×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Type B Pressure Meter Troubleshooting

Type B Pressure Meter Troubleshooting

Type B Pressure Meter Troubleshooting

(OP)
I have been calibrating our labs inventory of these every 3 months (we have 12 pressure meters) and I am trying to find a troubleshooting guide so I can start making the technicians calibrate their own equipment. I can obviously make one up myself but figured maybe someone had one I could use or a link.  

RE: Type B Pressure Meter Troubleshooting

I think that having the techs calibrate their own equipment is not a great idea.  Centralized calibration, even if you rotate the duty among all your techs for familiarity, is a better measure of internal quality assurance.

RE: Type B Pressure Meter Troubleshooting

I think it is a good idea that the techs carry an air meter calibration kit and tools with them.  Nothing stops arguments quicker than a 5 minute air meter calibration check.  

As for trouble-shooting, that is a different area of concern.  Techs need to know how to field-strip a guage, then check the calibration.  It is not something I would recommend be done with a pamphlet, but should be demonstrated at a morning tail-board, then practiced by the techs.  Show them what happens when air is observed leaking from the different trouble spots.  

Tools required need to be nothing more advanced than a flat screwdriver and a couple of box wrenches.

This needs to be followed up with the three month calibration or as-required by the examination body.

RE: Type B Pressure Meter Troubleshooting

What is the accreditation body (example A2LA, IAS, AASHTO) requirement regarding calibration? Most ABs require that you have procedures in place for this sort of thing.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources