Standard Production – Sentinel

Accurate and durable: Purpose-built for Brinell testing in almost any shop floor environment

The Sentinel features an entirely new frame design; built around the immensely successful, field-proven Foundrax test head and BRINtronic automatic Brinell microscope – still the most accurate and reliable in the industry.  Measurement error is virtually eliminated and results are displayed instantly.  The test piece is rigidly clamped at the start of the indenting cycle to eliminate any possibility of movement and the test force is monitored 125 times per second and adjusted to ensure it is within strict tolerances at all times.  The load cell is purpose-built for Brinell testing; not an off-the-shelf model pushed to its limits. As the anvil is fixed, a conveyor system can be substituted, allowing the safe manoeuvring of heavy and unwieldy components into and out of test position, with significant reduction in risk to operators.  The moving head also reduces test times by eliminating the need to wind the anvil up and down. The Sentinel exceeds the requirements of ISO 6506 and ASTM E-10 and comes with a certificate of calibration from our UKAS-accredited laboratory. Like all our Brinell testers, the Sentinel is built to withstand many years of use in the rigours of a typical foundry, forge or steelworks.  For those organisations carrying out thousands of tests per week, we designed the BRINscan MkV.   This machine is designed to perform millions of tests with minimal downtime, indeed, one BRINscan carried out 30 million tests before being ‘retired’ (just as a precaution; it was still working).