A Day at the Races
Foundrax Engineering staff gathered at Haynes Motor Museum recently for a hotly-contested session of Go-Karting. The Museum organises the sessions to create the feel of
25/08/2023
Everything you ever wondered about Brinell testing
Brinell hardness testing – the principal features, advantages and disadvantages
This first appeared (with minor alterations) in the United States publication ‘Heat Treat Today’. All heat treatment companies obviously test hardness and many do so
24/08/2023
Foundrax in the United States of America
Foundrax has a significant customer base in the United States, centred around Texas. Several American companies have purchased one of our Brinell hardness testers; usually for checking components heading for the oil and gas sector.
16/01/2023
Rockwell Hardness Testing Tips
We recently received a block back from a client with a note expressing concern that it was two Rockwell units softer than stated on its
06/09/2022
The BRINscope Duo
Accurately measuring the diameter of a Brinell indentation is, of course, as important as making the indentation properly in the first place. But this is
22/06/2022
The BRINtronic NEO
Foundrax’s revolutionary, automatic indentation measurement microscope – the ‘BRINtronic’® – has been available for many years as an integral part of our Brinell testing machines
20/06/2022
The Brinell hardness tester explained
All the essentials of the Brinell hardness tester explained A Brinell hardness tester is a machine that is used for measuring the hardness of metal.
22/11/2021
Another one of our ‘X-BHD’, bridge-type, Brinell hardness testers left the workshop last week
This machine, one of a long and distinguished line of large Foundrax Brinell testers (they can be found all around the Globe) enables the in-situ
15/10/2021
Brinell Hardness Testing Tips
To make a true Brinell test using a floor-standing or bench-mounted Brinell hardness tester, according to the requirements of ISO 6506 or ASTM E10-18: Setting
06/09/2021
How to calculate Brinell hardness
One of the internationally accepted methods of measuring metal hardness is by Brinell testing. Brinell testing expresses the hardness numerically and the “Brinell hardness number”
18/08/2021
Metal hardness and the development of hardness testing
Understanding metal hardness The need to know the approximate hardness of metals would have been apparent to those who worked with the material thousands of
05/07/2021
Brinell hardness testing explained and compared
Information on Brinell hardness testing; uses, advantages and disadvantages.
01/06/2021
A guide to buying a Brinell hardness tester
Are you considering the purchase of a Brinell hardness tester? Why choose Foundrax? There are other hardness tester suppliers, after all… Well, it’s all about
25/05/2021
Brinell ‘automatic scanners’
Brinell “scanners” Some in the world of metal hardness testing talk about “scanning” Brinell indentations to measure their diameter. Others refer to using “artificial intelligence”
08/04/2021
Why hardness test blocks are used
Brinell Hardness Test Blocks Every year, thousands of Brinell test blocks leave our workshop; destined for customers in over 40 countries. These blocks, more correctly
08/04/2021
Size matters: The issue of indenter diameters – more for the non-specialist
Rockwell and Vickers hardness tests have their place in the metrologist’s armoury but, for large cast components, the Brinell hardness test is still very much
26/03/2021
Hardness testing – the history
Foundrax MD Alex Austin explained the background to Brinell testing late in 2019 in an article for Materials Today, an abridged version of which is
11/03/2021
The Brinell test block production process explained
It sometimes surprises customers that our Brinell test blocks cost a three-figure sum. Well, it needs to be stated at the outset that using metals
08/02/2021
Uncertainty without doubt!
One of my favourite reference book titles, because of the obvious humorous aspect to it, is Doubt-Free Uncertainty in Measurement*. It seems to me that
05/11/2020
Minimising injury risk during Brinell hardness tests
Does your metal hardness testing put your operators at risk? Foundrax MD Alex Austin discusses the hazards: I have visited several customer sites where the
28/09/2020
The introduction of automatic indentation measurement: the Foundrax development that revolutionised Brinell hardness testing
Foundrax MD Alex Austin on the ‘slow revolution’ in Brinell testing that the company pioneered Foundrax has been in the hardness testing business for over
24/08/2020
Hardness testing – some information for non-specialists
The term ‘hardness’ is used to describe a material’s ability to resist being deformed. Hardness testing provides data on how hard materials are by giving
25/09/2019
The problem of hardness testing large, unwieldy items accurately
Sometimes, if you’re hoping to do a Brinell hardness test on something that’s heavy and awkward to manoeuvre, it’s easier to take the tester to
25/09/2019
