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I think I read in your original post that the car is a 70-something; back then I think the American ones did have psi markings on the instruments. By 1980, almost every Mercedes of any type had "bar" markings on the oil pressure, and degrees C instead of degrees F on the engine temperature. |
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aha, i kinda thought that, just wondered if people were talking about the lines (bars).
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A metricspeek bar is about 15 lbs.
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Chemistry people use "atmosphere" as a unit of measure. "1 atmosphere" or 1 atm as it's abbreviated is somewhere right around 15 pounds per square inch. It's a decimal value; this isn't a precise conversion and anybody who blows up their workshop using that calculation, it's not my fault.
But I suspect that "1 atmosphere" in some German or European language would have something to do with *barometric* pressure or a barometer, thus 1 "bar" = 1 barometric pressure unit = 1 atmosphere = 14.7psi. Probably. Sorry if this is obvious to everybody but somebody might search for this years from now and wonder. |
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A "bar" is a unit of atmospheric pressure equal to 14.7 psi. One bar is about 15 psi, 3 bars is about 45 psi. Weathermen sometimes speak of barometer readings in millibars using numbers around 1000 but the term "bar" is rarely used in the US of A except by us old-Benz freaks.
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