Found the manual,it say's to use 100-120lbs of air for charging.I'm thinking mabe getting my old airpump from out at my cabin,it's made from an old refrigator pump,it'll pull quite a bit of vacume also.(I know be carefull)!All i'm looking for is to get the guadge to go more than half way up,I'll hook my real vacume guadge to it at the same time to see how much it get's.Also I still have to check for the casting flash in the bugger.Thank's guy's,hopefully I'll get time to check it out more as we are pretty busy with hauling out boat's right now,What a time to find out thing's aren't what they should be!!