Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE OUR AUCTIONS AT ANY TIME. IF YOU WANT SOMETHING, BID ON IT OR MAKE AN OFFER AS THERE ARE OCCASIONS WHEN WE DO CLOSE AN AUCTION EARLY. PLEASE DO NOT BID IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO OR DO NOT INTEND TO PAY!!! PAYMENT WITHIN 3 DAYS PLEASE...
THIS PRETTY RARE ANTIQUE MICRO-MANOMETER (MICROMANOMETER) WAS MADE BY AIRFLOW DEVELOPMENT LIMITED IN THE UK. THE COMPANY WAS STARTED IN 1955 AND HAS BRANCHES IN GERMANY, CANADA, NEW ZEALAND CZECH REPUBLIC AND NORWAY. THE MICRO-MANOMETER WAS DISTRIBUTED BY D. GILES (SCIENTIFIC) HERE IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA. THE NEWER METERS ARE NOW ALL ELECTRONIC, MAKING THIS A VERY COLLECTIBLE ITEM.
MANY TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF PRESSURE AND VACUUM. INSTRUMENTS USED TO MEASURE PRESSURE ARE CALLED PRESSURE GAUGES OR VACUUM GAUGES. A MANOMETER COULD ALSO REFER TO A PRESSURE MEASURING INSTRUMENT, USUALLY LIMITED TO MEASURING PRESSURES NEAR TO ATMOSPHERIC. THE TERM MANOMETER IS OFTEN USED TO REFER SPECIFICALLY TO LIQUID COLUMN HYDROSTATIC INSTRUMENTS. A VACUUM GAUGE IS USED TO MEASURE THE PRESSURE IN A VACUUM -WHICH IS FURTHER DIVIDED INTO TWO SUBCATEGORIES, HIGH AND LOW VACUUM (AND SOMETIMES ULTRA HIGH). THE APPLICABLE PRESSURE RANGE OF MANY OF THE TECHNIQUES USED TO MEASURE VACUUMS HAVE AN OVERLAP. HENCE, BY COMBINING SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF GAUGE, IT IS POSSIBLE TO MEASURE SYSTEM PRESSURE CONTINUOUSLY FROM 10 MBAR DOWN TO 10−11 MBAR.
PLEASE VIEW THE PICS VERY CAREFULLY FOR MORE DETAILS AND THE GENERAL CONDITION. STANDARD POSTAGE AND PACKAGING WILL BE R 75.00 (EXTRA WEIGHT AND PACKAGING) COUNTER TO COUNTER OR PLEASE COLLECT IN EDENVALE AT NO CHARGE!
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