On 14 Aug 2010 00:28:48 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

On 2010-08-13, Gunner Asch wrote:
On 13 Aug 2010 01:58:31 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

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Does it have the designation written on it -- or are you going
by color codes on the ends? The latter is dangerous, because different
metal vendors use different color codes, so you *have* to know where
they came from for the color codes to be of any use.

Good Luck,
DoN.

Nah..I never pay attention to color codes. As you say..they tend to be
different from supplier to supplier...shrug.

Ive a little drop hammer hardness checker...drop the weight and it
bounces upwards and you read off the scale, then look at the chart. Not
much bigger than a large felt tip marker. Its not science..but it works
well enough for me.

Sounds like a Sclerometer to me.

Sklero meter. Close enough. G

http://picasaweb.google.com/gunneras...69956769306386

I just gave away 350lbs of very elderly Wilson hardness tester to a guy
who needed spare parts for his. Mine had been heavily modified and then
left to rot in the back of an inspection department. I had no idea how
to use it, or what was missing, so I simply gave it away. It was missing
the indenters etc etc. It would however measure every scale Id ever
heard of, including DUROMETER.... which I thought was funny as hell.

Probably made in the mid to late 1940s



I've got a King brand Rockwell type hardness tester instead.

NICE!!

For those who havent seen one...

http://www.kingtester.com/testers.htm


Enjoy,
DoN.


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