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Brinell Hardness Reference Blocks – Supplied With UKAS Certificates Of Calibration – RUGGED PRECISION Laboratory accuracy under steelworks condition
Open the catalog to page 1Brinell Reference Blocks Foundrax have the best accredited Calibration and Measurement Capabilities (CMCs) of any British Brinell calibration laboratory and our CMCs for the commercial manufacture of Brinell Reference Blocks are amongst the best in the world. This means that you and your customers have more confidence in your results when using equipment checked on our Brinell Reference Blocks, not only improving your own quality but giving you a further advantage over competitors who use inferior blocks. Calibration of our reference blocks, Brinell hardness testers and microscopes are...
Open the catalog to page 2• All blocks certified to ISO 6506-3 and ASTM E10. • All blocks supplied with official UKAS certificate of calibration unless requested otherwise. • All blocks offer 173cm2 surface area. • All blocks in steel except where marked A (aluminium). • Standard hardness ranges are marked in bold; ranges in grey are not available at present. • Please advise hardness range & hardness scale required on your order. Advantages of Foundrax UKAS certified hardness reference blocks: • Mirror finish for clear and easy indentation measurement. • Standard grid, custom grid and “no grid”...
Open the catalog to page 3Brinell Reference Indentation Reading Blocks The challenge in Brinell hardness testing is not in making the indentation but in the measurement of the indentation, when using a manual microscope defining the edge depends on a subjective judgement of the operator and different operators may get different answers. Foundrax Reference Indentation Reading Blocks feature 10 standardised authentic indentations of differing sizes made and measured using our Master Calibration Machine (traceable to PTB) so are correct by definition. These are supplied in protective boxes with official UKAS...
Open the catalog to page 4Service Delivery is normally 2-3 weeks. However, if you need the blocks more quickly we will do all we can to assist, potentially we can bring it down to under a week depending on our current stock. We also offer a discount structure based on an annual or quarterly “call off” contract. We can provide you blocks with your own custom grids at no extra charge if our standard grids are not suitable for your purposes. In a recent customer survey: of respondents stated that they classed our products as good or excellent. of respondents stated that they considered our customer service good or...
Open the catalog to page 5The quailty of the Foundrax Range is recognised by: BMW • Volkswagen • Rolls Royce • Nissan • Boeing • Airbus • ABB • Tata Steel • Swedish Steel • Bohler Steel Thyssen Krupp • GE • FMC • NOV • Cameron • Lucchini RS • Kamaz • Caterpillar and many more...and many more... Over 50 years of worldwide testi
Open the catalog to page 6FOUNDRAX Foundrax Engineering Products Ltd Wessex Park, SOMERTON, England, TA11 6SB [g TEL: +44 (0) 1458 274 888 0® FAX: +44 (0) 1458 274 880 (=) EMAIL: sales@foundrax.co.uk How do you measure your indentations? Have you considered the huge advantages of automatic measurement over manual measurement? If not please have a look at the Foundrax BRINtronic series of automatic Brinell microscopes at www.foundrax.co.uk/brintronic-microscopes or contact us for more details.
Open the catalog to page 7EMAIL: sales@foundrax.co.uk Foundrax were established in 1948 and are the only company in the world to truly specialise in Brinell hardness testing equipment and accessories. We invented commercial automatic Brinell measurement and were the first company to be officially recognised for the manufacture of Brinell Reference Blocks in the UK. We have manufactured several National Standard Calibration machines and production machines which have performed tens of millions of tests (over 30 million in one case). Our equipment is used in 46 countries around the world and 94% of our customers say...
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