Industrial Archive

If you’re performing any kind of outdoor work, you probably know the rule: “Call before you dig”. This isn’t just common sense; in most jurisdictions, it’s the law. Calling ahead will get utility companies to mark their wires and pipes across your property. This is all well and good as far as it goes. But what do you do when you want to find your …

Paint coating thickness meters are responsible for undertaking a pretty important job. Measuring coating thickness can be essential for quality control, material testing, paint inspection, shop work, used car markets, industrial lacquering, and so forth. Depending on the type of tasks you have in mind, finding the right thickness gauge usually isn’t tough. Picking the Best Paint Coating Thickness Gauge In some ways, the most …

Whether it’s in the lab or in the field, you may find yourself needing to calculate force. You could try material testers or a load cell, but the simplest and elegant answer to repeated force testing is a digital force gauge. Modern force gauges use many of the same traditional techniques to measure force that people have used for centuries, but augmented with digital technology …

Turbidity is a measure of cloudiness within water. When tiny particles become suspended within water, the result is turbidity. The offending substances might be minerals, oils, bacteria, algae, or any other number of things. With the aid of an optical measurement, turbidity meters help indicate precisely how many suspended particles are present. Light is shined through your sample, and then carefully measured to quantify the …

You could list off thousands of different circumstances where it’s necessary to measure pH, and almost as many tools designed to help with the task. But like with most measurement devices, finding the right tool for your job specifically is as important as ever. When it comes to measuring equipment, you tend to get what you pay for, except for when you don’t understand what …