Material Matters

Spectrographic's Managing Director, Paul Chippendale, enjoys a good read.  His favourite Metallurgy publication is the book by Brain Bousfield, Surface Preparation and Microscopy of Materials. This metallurgical book really is the bible for all metallurgists, and gives a great insight into the field of materials surface preparation, according to Paul. It gives an in-depth insight into the preparation of metals, spray coatings, composites, minerals, PCB's and electronic circuits, thin film measurement, soft materials and ceramics.  The book also enlightens the reader into hardness testing and applied microscopy. Paul has been inspired by this book to write his own guidance notes for sample preparation, available from the website. The Spectrographic Team are here to help identify your preparation needs, and the book is available on Amazon. Email:  sales@spectrographic.co.uk Tel: 01274 966173 Website:  www.spectrographic.co.uk

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:...

The Buehler  Vibromet 2 is ready for you, It’s as good as new, Been serviced by our boys in Blue.   The system is suitable for preparation of metallographic, petrographic, and ceramographic samples. If you want to prepare samples using an alternative to metallographic polishing wheels, this vibratory polisher will produce better results because of its unique vibratory action which reduces structural deformation and improved flatness and reducing edge flatness. This vibratory polisher is ideal for Metals, Rocks and  borides. The 300mm platen can be used in conjunction with Spectrographic Consumables ; Polishing Cloths, Diamond Suspensions and Colloidal silica . Get in touch to speak to Gail, she will pass you onto someone who knows what they are talking about. Only Joking, Please contact a member of the Spectrographic Team, they will be more than happy to help via the usual Channels. Email:  s...

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. ...

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. ...

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