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Product category: Materials Testing
News Release from: Foundrax Engineering Products | Subject: Hardness tester
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial Team on 13 June 2007

Range of hardness testers discounted

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Foundrax has introduced a range of Rockwell, Vickers And Universal hardness testers with discounts of up to GBP3000 until end of September 2007.

Hardness testing equipment specialist, Foundrax Engineering Products, has announced a range of Rockwell, Vickers and universal hardness testers from Wolpert and Wilson Instruments The company's latest Foundrax-Wolpert Rockwell 500 and 600 series units deliver proven reliability and precision under both production and laboratory conditions

They are available in manual or motorised load control versions and test results can be output as analogue displays or via built-in printers and statistics packages.

Foundrax also now offers the 2000 series of Rockwell and Vickers hardness testers from US-based Wilson Instruments, inventors of the Rockwell hardness test.

Available in regular, superficial, twin and micro Rockwell models, Wilson 2000 series units feature unique closed-loop electronic control, along with direct mounting of the load cell on the indenter to eliminate errors.

The testers comply to both ASTM and ISO and provide unmatched accuracy achieving gauge repeatability and reproducibility (G R and R) figures of better than 5 percent.

Wilson 2000 series units also complement the addition of Foundrax-Wolpert Vickers and micro Vickers hardness testers to the company's established VX Vickers and MX micro Vickers/Knoop test equipment ranges.

Ideal for evaluating the hardness of small parts, thin materials or wire, coatings and performance case depth variations, Foundrax-Wolpert Vickers testers are offered with analogue or digital microscopes, motorised turrets, built-in printers and statistics packages to suit a wide variety of application requirements.

A further new range of Foundrax-Wolpert universal hardness testers delivers reliable and robust operation in both shopfloor and laboratory environments.

Providing Vickers, Brinell or Rockwell measurement results, these versatile and flexible machines are available in either traditional OElever and weight' configuration or with closed loop control technology for maximum accuracy and repeatability.

Offered with discounts of up to GBP3000 until the end of September on outright sale or through the company's attractive finance scheme Foundrax test equipment is backed by comprehensive after sales and technical support based on more than half a century at the forefront of hardness testing technology.

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