Material Matters

The Spectrographic directors Paul and Nicci Chippendale have jetted off to Stuttgart to the annual quality assurance trade fair. They are all geared up to see current and prospective suppliers at this years event. First stop was to obviously find Manfred Tieza of NewSonic GMBH, to see the innovative Sonodur Portable Hardness Tester. As you can see Nicci is making  the most of getting sales information for this portable metallurgical product. Paul on the other hand has turned into his very own "Superhero" Mr Chip and enjoyed meeting up with the Hulk. At the office the Spectrographic Team have been looking forward to the news of the day from this industry specific exhibition of material preparation and analysis equipment. If you the Spectrographic Team for anything please wake them up and contact them: Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk http://www.spectrographic.co.uk/metallurgical-equipme...

Spectrographic's range of Microscopy Imaging Camera available for immediate dispatch.  We also have a range of software to accompany the Microscope camera for all areas of science. Spectrographic is an active member of the Royal Microscope Society.   5.0 Megapixel CMOS Microscope Camera MDX501   Camera Series MDX501 is a 5 megapixel microscope camera equipped with high quality Aptina CMOS MT9P006 and a 32Mb buffer memory. It provides higher frame rate and more stable running. The robust multi-camera synchronization function makes it easy to work with 3 more MX cameras together. This is very helpful to more applicable options for different kinds of microscopy applications. It is a good choice for applications which require high frame rate and high image quality. Monochrome camera MDX501M is available.   Features   High imaging quality and low noise 1/2.5 inch 5 megapixel colour CMOS sensor Plug and play USB 2.0 interface, easy to install Built...

There are many definitions of Stand by, this is the one we like "d enoting an economic or financial measure prepared for implementation in specified circumstances." Why? I hear you ask. Service can be expensive especially when travelling costs are involved.  At Spectrographic we would like to give our service customers a helping hand. This is the plan if you are not in a hurry and can wait until we have other service calls in the area we can significantly cut the costs of the service by 40% or more. The Spectrographic service is available on metallurgical cutters, polishers and mounting press. Each service will involve a deep clean, change of specific PPM parts and electrical testing, a full report of any issues relating to the machine.  Now for the small print if non planned preventative maintenance parts are required we will send of formal quotation to repair the machine in question. Please contact the Spectrographic Service Team on: Email:...

Spectrographic are proud to announce the arrival of the Petrology Catalogue 2016. Spectrographic are interested to talk to Petrologists, Geologists and analysts  at Universities or in industry. There are several routes the we have chosen to engage with the industry of me The Petrography catalogue is also available from the website For any further information please contact the Spectrographic Team:   Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk

The OmegaPol Automatic Grinder and Polisher with 300mm Platen,  is an advanced automated polishing/grinder with accurate control of load, speed. The OmegaPol can polish up to 5 sample of 25mm to 50mm giving more capacity. More power for the head and the base.   Watch the video on how to operate this super metallurgical polisher and what to watch out for. Spectrographic have all the metallurgical consumables, please have a look at the metallurgy animated catalogue. For more information please get in touch with Spectrographic Team. Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk

Spectrographic is a leading metallurgical supplier of preparation equipment and consumables, based in Bradford in the United Kingdom. The main industrial sectors that we deal in is automotive, aerospace, rail, energy, test house, metal preparation laboratories and Universities. Our aim is to be able to assist our client base with knowledge on how to prepare metallography samples all the way through to microscopy. This has been completed by a new section on our website which is called preparation routes , thus aiding the metallurgist in which products can be used for each of the metallic steels and alloys. If there is a preparation route not on the website, please contact the Spectrographic Team and they will advise you of the correct materials preparation route for your application. Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk

At Spectrographic as a metallurgical suppliers we offer re-calibration of Hardness Tester test blocks.  There are different types of hardness test reference blocks which relate to the testing for hardness.  These are Rockwell, Vickers, Micro Vickers, Knoop, Brinell and Leeb Test Blocks. The BS EN ISO 6507-3:2005 relates to metallic materials, Vickers hardness test and calibration of reference test blocks.  The extracted information of this standard Calibration of reference blocks appears in section 9 - Validity, it states: " The reference block is only valid for the scale for which it was calibrated. The calibration validity should be limited to a duration of 5 years.  Attention is drawn to the fact that, for Al- and Cu-alloys, the calibration validity could be reduced to 2-3 years". The question here is are all the test blocks valid that are currently been used for hardness testing within your metallurgy department.  This should become apparent...

The MetCut 330 abrasive metallurgical cutting machine offers a good capacity for sectioning a wide range of samples for material testing. This machine has the ability to cut samples from a wide range of materials using abrasive cutting wheels and diamond /  Cubic Boron Nitride  wheels available from Spectrographic.   Sectioning of samples up to 80mm diameter with chopping technique and up to 200mm length using the lateral moving bed can be achieved.   The machine is available with manual or automatic cutting functions.    The video below shows how to use the machine. The Metcut 330 abrasive cut off machines are used in the metallurgy industry as they offer a high quality cut that are required for quality inspection of samples for automotive, energy, rail and aerospace applications. A full range of metallurgical abrasive cutting wheels are available for the MetCut 330 abrasive cutter.   These wheel are also suitable for use on Buehle...

This is Spectrographic's biggest secret! our new 2016 catalogue is now online. http://owl.li/10lIk1 Our metallurgical consumables catalogue has been revamped and is animated for the firsts time and is now available on line. The catalogue has our full range of metallurgy products including Cut off Wheels, Cold Mounting, Hot Mounting, Polishing Cloths, Polishing Media, Grinding Papers and Grit-Fix Systems for materials analysis. To make things even easier you can order straight through our web shop, http://owl.li/10lKdH however if you need to ask advise the team is all ways willing to help call on 01274 966173 or email sales@spectrographic.co.uk .

Spectrographic Service Department have been busy repairing a PC60 Metallurgical Cutter, and we are really pleased to receive great feedback about our service engineers. This is what a representative of Hardide Coatings had to say, "My thanks to you all – especially to Sam the Service Engineer who made the necessary repairs to bring it to functionality. The machine seems to be working as required – I did trials on positioning, adjusting rpm & feed rate and everything behaved appropriately and was controllable" If you are after a Service on a Metallurgy Cut off machine, please get in touch with the Spectrographic Team Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk