Recently I visited a manufacturing company near Delhi producing heavy equipments for oil rigs. A major challenge they face is to measure the hardness of these equipments. As these equipments are heavy and large in size, carrying these to the tester is not an easy task. Also many equipments don't fit well to the space provided by the testers fixed at one location. Similarly holding those equipments properly at the time of test is difficult. All these problems have a solution in the name of King Testers (www.kingtester.com) , the Gold standard in Brinnel Hardness testing. What uniquely distinguishes the King Tester from other Brinnel hardness testers is its portability meaning that you can take the tester to the piece to be tested as opposed to requiring the piece to be tested be brought to the tester.
I would explain in short the metal hardness testing. This is resistance of the material to indentation or dent. Any material can be subjected to a fixed force or load and the measure of the depth of the indentation can be calibrated to find hardness. Harder the material, lower will be the depth of indentation. Out of many hardness testing options, Brinnel testing is very common and is defined in ASTM E10. It is often done at a very high test load (3,000 kgf) which ensures that even metals of very high hardness can be tested with this technique.
King Tester was founded in 1936 by Andrew King in Narbeth just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to satisfy the need for a portable full load Brinnel tester. Over the past 80 years of business, King Tester has solidified itself as the industry standard by providing the best and most accurate portable full load Brinnel testing equipment around the world. You can send your queries at king@kingtester.com or india@kingtester.com or visitwww.kingtester.com.
