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   Thad in AR.  
   
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     Topic: Where to find a mechanical rpm gauge?Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 6:20pm  | 
 
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   Not sure what it’s called but you can hold it against the end of a spinning shaft and read rpm like on an electric motor. 
    
   
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     Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 6:22pm | 
 
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   Test tachometer
    
   
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     Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 6:24pm | 
 
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   I got mine off eBay.
 
   
  "Hand tach" Edited by exSW - 17 Dec 2022 at 6:25pm  | 
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     Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 7:33pm | 
 
   
   
 Thank you guys. I found a couple old ones on eBay that look like new.  | 
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     Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 7:49pm | 
 
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    I have one like this. Has large AC letters stamped on the back. G https://www.ebay.com/itm/265817421841?hash=item3de3f3f811:g:ygsAAOSw01Zi7vWf&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoMYoYU4D2LlWl%2BMnEDhpVep9%2FosG0wnQ5iSDakBrrbrHlOMTdQO5UePjnueqxDWCCIiO3OxkXTPgT%2FVo0cBuwvEd5rOZUknn%2FlGoIiMNus5pSeh%2FTfePgg6G7LjzY2nXNhhKwgMnZJltAioPrapVkPzgNC427ejRjq6i2XX2Sezgz9iQQ4gdI1qokED35YiqZ7BhVNPuPIGBvkFJiq8j9Ec%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4yszK6kYQ  | 
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     Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 9:04pm | 
 
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   I bought mine from an auto parts store when I owned that POS green combine umpteen years ago. they still make new ones yet, 
    
   
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     Posted: 17 Dec 2022 at 11:51pm | 
 
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   I got mine at NAPA manny years ago.
    
   
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     Posted: 18 Dec 2022 at 5:05am | 
 
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    That’s exactly like what my dad had when I was a young’en. I didn’t see it last night and n my search. I don’t have an eBay account but my wife can get me one when she gets home.  | 
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     Posted: 18 Dec 2022 at 7:23am | 
 
   
   
 I have that same one as well left over from Dad's shop. Use it to set RPMs on the Hesston self propelled mower/conditioner  | 
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     Posted: 18 Dec 2022 at 10:15am | 
 
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   Mine is an antique Stewart-Warner hand held mechanical tach, and it works great... in EITHER direction...   IIRC, it was at a garage sale for $5...  
   
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