Please help me identify this thing.

Hi guys.

I got this thing as a birthday gift. Obviously my friends gave me that for fun, but I promised them that I will found out what is that in 24h. It was yesterday so I don't have much time. So what is that??

 

Cannae ye read? Says KISS ME gauge, for determining romantic compatibility and tyre pressure.

 

hahaha. Thank you XooMG. Do you know how does it work?

 

Valentine's Day already passed and you should really ask a loved one, but basically you place the mouth over the tyre valve nipple thing, and watch how far the stick comes out, which should tell you (in PSI) whether the tyre needs a pump.

 

Lol, that may just be the name of the company...I think it's just a tire gauge...

 

Tire pressure gauge. A nice one too!.

 

I don't think I've ever seen a tire (ok tyre) guage in a box before. Thank your friends effusively for a great gift - the joke will be on them.

 

They don't make em like that any more. quality-wise I mean. It might still work.

 

That's what I'm thinking. Suckers!
I'd see if it works and it would be my new tire gauge.

 

This is a gauge to measure how much you suck for not going to the wild potato/titanic convention in Ulfborg this spring...

 

hahaha. I am not going because I am afraid of being raped by potatos. Hehehe. I am just wondering Dan. Do you think that somebody here understand what we are talking about? hehe

 

thats no std tire gauge tho since it runs to 120PSI thats crazy. maybe a rig or tractor tire gauge (airplaine?)

 

It's getting more interesting with every post Hehe. Maybe it's very rare, expensive tool??

 

Found this about Kismet:

"William Turner and Bro. Ltd, of Eyre Lane Sheffield started business in the late 1890's and made a range of pumps under the KISMET brand name. Rumour has it that Turner named his company after attending and being impressed with the KISMET musical opera.

Turners were probably the most prolific of the quality pump makers and pneumatic engineers in the first half of the 20th century. They made an incredibly wide range of high quality pumps to suit all tastes, pockets and storage spaces. They were very 'market aware' - increasing the range of their products and reducing sizes as motoring slowly spread to the masses. They also produced a most interesting and humorous range of adverts and promotional material to help market their products.

Several types of KISMET pump were issued in the tool kits of quality cars such as Rolls Royce and Bentley. They also supplied heavy-duty military issue examples for use by the Army and Air Force in WW2. In the RAF they were used, among other things, for pressurising the pneumatic systems of Spitfires and Hurricanes during ground maintenance and repair. These military issue pumps, with their distinctive Air Ministry and Crown Property (broad arrow) logos are extremely collectable.

The big pumps are huge - e.g. the Kismet "Garage" but the beautiful little Kismet "Baby" is many people's favourite. The Kismet Duplex and Kismet Duplex Masters are the flagship models high quality double acting supercharged pumps with an intricate internal design with a number of leather glands, washers and seals. These are capable of in excess of 300 psi. Elsewhere in the range one finds the Scooterflator, Car, Junior , Popular, Sequel, 'Kismet 85' and Lorry. The Junior was produced in two versions - single acting and double acting - the latter having a miniaturised version of the same internal supercharged arrangement as the big Duplex or Duplex Master. This is quite a rare model. At the top end of the range is the massive Duplex trolley compressor - a beast on wheels, intended for relatively static garage use.

The Duplex pump could manage 600 psi , and pilots of Spitfires in the last war were supplied with one for emergency use to recharge their compressed air bottles and thus be able to take to the air again ( and fire their guns , which also needed a charged bottle)."

(from http://www.vintagepumps.co.uk)

The gauge probably came as an accessory with one of the Kismet pumps.

 

I want a Scooterflator! The stamp collection has not worked in years.

 

Yeah, a Scooterflator! That's almost worth having for the name alone!