Your Entire World Of Tire-Pressure Checking Has Been Shattered: COTD

A tire gauge is simultaneously one of the simplest and most useful tools you can have in your arsenal. It’s so easy to carry and quick to use, you can almost a reading of air pressure almost instantly, and anywhere. But, do you know if your gauge is even accurate?

During the holiday break, Thomas wrote a piece featuring a Project Farm video about which tire gauges are accurate and which aren’t. As it turns out, some pricier gauges may be far from accurate while, I’ll be dipped, some cheap pencil-type of gauges are not only simple and inexpensive, but pretty on target with their PSI readings!

Angry Bob makes a hilarious point:

It is said that a man with a watch always knows what time it is, but a man with two watches is never quite sure.

Yeah, maybe don’t buy multiple tire pressure gauges! Angrycat Meowmeow has a great mentality. Buy once, cry once:

I have the Jaco one on my compressor. Good to know it’s decent. I buy almost everything with a “buy it for life” mentality now. Everything is designed to be disposable now, destined for the landfill before it’s even left the production line and it’s just disgusting.

We love unique weddings at The Autopian. I rented out an entire aviation museum and got married in front of World War II history while David managed to have the perfect wedding Jeep and found a cute way to add cars to his wedding. Friend of the show Andreas also gave David an incredible gift, a cylinder head on a custom stand. Amateur-Lapsed Member notes:

Then I cleaned the used cylinder head with a shitton of carb cleaner…

Presumably, since Andreas is German, it was a metric shitton, so about ten percent larger than a US shitton.

Also, David’s wife is known around these parts as “Elise (Not Her Real Name)” but I love how readers abbreviated it. Baltimore Paul:

I was wondering if E(NHRN) is related to the PRNDL family? Cousins maybe?

Former President Jimmy Carter passed at the age of 100 and as it turns out, he was pretty well-loved. From Argentine Utop:

He was a close friend of my country in times of the deepest horror, and did everything in his power to help bring democracy back. I have immense respect for this guy.

Rest in Peace.

Here’s a fun fact from Lew Schiller:

Youngs might not know that Rolling Stone magazine and Hunter S. Thompson in particular went a long way to securing the youth vote for Carter. “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail …’76” is a terrific read. While looking that up see also the brilliant SNL sketch featuring Dan Akroyd as Jimmah.

Have a great evening, everyone!

(Topshot: Screenshot/Project Farm)