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...

Trying to find a pun to do with metals and E aster can be quite complicated, so I will try and give it a break, so we bid all those metalleggraphers a very Happy Easter. We are looking forward to the Easter B reak , which reminds me, our team of fixers are available to service and repair your old and tired equipment.   CAN WE FIX IT, YES WE CAN (no one called Bob actually works here, and in some cases we have to say sorry we Can't)   So, here's wishing you a really good Easter Holiday, lets hope for sunshine, and chocolate, although last time one of our engineers needed fixing due to sun stroke, but that seems like a long time ago! Easter Closure Thursday 24th March 2016  at 5pm u ntil 9am on Tuesday  29th March 2016. Except for me, the grumpy one, as I have decided to go play Golf on the Tuesday! But don't worry, the teams is in, to look after you. Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectro...

Spectrographic are renown for selling metallurgical polishing machines, either brand new or refurbished . As a company we offer the full metallography consumable package. Our preparation polishing cloths have been sourced for quality and efficiency, and can easily be identified with other well known brands. The topic of this blog is to introduce our product range.  Our technical guys have put together a matrix of Polishing Cloths. Name of Polishing Cloth Description CIAR Soft, micro-porous cloth.  Chemical resistant low napped polymer pad. Excellent flatness and long durability (Pk 5) TARA A soft flocked cloth, semi finishing and finishing of all materials.   Diamond   3 or 1 mic (Pk 5) FLOCK Soft, dense and medium napped synthetic cloth on a plastic foil.    Provide excellent flatness and long durability 1 or 3 mic (Pk 5) MAIA Very soft flocked cloth, semi finishing and finishing of all materials. ...

. Gail has now returned to Spectrographic after attending Crufts 2016 with her Daughter Willow and their dogs. Willow has enjoyed a very successful time by winning the 6-11 Pastoral/Working Junior Handling Final on Saturday, with her Shetland Sheepdog Tooralie's Firefly owned by Mrs Sue Walker, under Judge Liz Millward. On the Friday of Crufts Willow and Miss Fly also competed in the under 12 Young Kennel Club Grooming Competition and gained a highly respectable 2nd. Willow and Fly then had to compete in the main final on Sunday against all the other finalists from each day, they both put in an epic performance, according to Gail.  Well done to the main winners. Spectrographic didn't expect to see Gail on the Monday, and they were right.  Instead she limped home on the Monday after 3 days of the growling NEC flooring. So, Gail is now back, so if you want to speak to hear she is available in the Spectrographic Team Of...

Spectrographic have been refurbishing metallurgical equipment for many years now, and we keep on adding to our range of second hand machines. A new addition to our range of used metallurgical equipment is the Buehler Isomet 2000 Precision Cutting machine.   Precision cutting machines cause minimal damage and deformation of the sample and are particularly suited to fragile or very soft materials. Using the correct cutting parameters the diamond saw can cut virtually any type of material, using its unique diamond cutting wheels. It is ideally suited for cutting and slicing fragile materials including inter-metallic crystal structures, semiconductor substrates with multiple layers, delicate electronic components and items which would be damaged using other methods of cutting.       The Buehler cutter can be supplied with a combination of new and used equipment to meet your full material testing requirements. ...

Getting through the bleak winter, floods, gales even snow. But it was a good season for our GB Bobsleigh team, great to be involved at the sharp end, so to speak, with supply of Spectrographic Metallurgical polishing consumables. Performance Director for Great Britain Bobsleigh, commented: “We are delighted with the support Spectrographic is offering to the British Bobsleigh Team. The smallest modification or technological improvement has the potential to shave hundredths of a second off the team’s time, and help them win an Olympic medal.” See more on Metallurgical consumables in our E Shop. Please contact the Spectrographic Team, for all your metallography consumables. Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk

The Spectrographic engineers have been working hard to refurbish the Buehler Metaserv 3000. This twin 200mm polisher/grinder will be available very soon.  The machine is capable of Polishing/Grinding 4 samples at anyone time. For full details of this new metallurgical equipment, please feel free to have a look on the website. More information will become available soon. If you hare interested please contact the Spectrographic Team.  Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk

It's not all to do with metallography. On Friday and Saturday Willow, Gail's daughter will be competing at Crufts 2016, at the NEC. And we would just like to wish her the best of luck. Willow and her Shelties have qualified in three Young Kennel Club disciplines; Grooming, Handling and Pastoral Stakes, she is so very excited. This is a picture of her handling at Crufts 2015 in the handling with her Shetland Sheepdog, Tooralie's Firefly. We wait with baited breath to see how the formidable twosome get on together at this prestigious event.  While we work hard in the office. If you do need us for anything metallurgical, please contact us, we are here till 4pm on a Friday. Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk