Gallery
Another custom built bridge-type machine under assembly, June 2022
Production Manager Dave Studley (left) discussing surface grinding procedures with Tom, one of our technicians
Our 2023 summer outing
A vintage BRINscope from the 1970s, still in full working order
A post-frame assembly inspection on 'Big Blue' the largest hardness tester ever built in Britain
Pailton Engineering's goods-in quality technician operating a Robus bench-top Brinell hardness tester
Inside one of our customers' premises
One of our bridge machines in Scotland
We build all our machines in-house
Technician Jamie calibrating a Model 134 portable hardness tester
'Big Blue' (as we nicknamed it), the largest Brinell hardness tester ever built in Britain, under assembly
Lapping blocks by the tried-and-tested method
The interior of a customer's steelworks
Surface grinding calibration blocks
A Foundrax technician checking a load curve - it's perfect
A BRINtronic NEO being tested at James Walker Moorflex, Bingley
Engineer Will at work on a drive unit
The extraordinarily successful Foundrax
indenter head
One of the marvellous things about the Robus Brinell tester is that it will easily fit in a 'Transit Connect'!
Foundrax engineers assembling Robus Brinell testers
'Big Blue', as we nicknamed it, the largest Brinell hardness tester ever constructed in Britain, leaves Head Office
Foundrax MD Alex demonstrating a 134 portable Brinell tester
Bridge machines under construction at our Somerset head office
An engineer works on the test head carriage on the largest Brinell hardness tester ever built in Britain
Foundrax calibration products are used in multiple industries, including the manufacture of wind turbine gearboxes
This BRINscan MkV is currently testing every link in every tank track for use by the British Army
A 2022 bridge machine, production-line testing in the West Midlands
A Foundrax bridge machine employed at a cylinder factory (1)
Chamfering Brinell calibration blocks for a more comfortable user experience
Components of all shapes and sizes can be accommodated by our bridge-type testers
A Foundrax bridge machine employed at a cylinder factory (2)
Steel rods at a customer's foundry
Attaching a polishing cloth in preparation for finishing the surface of Brinell blocks
QM Jeremy discusses forklift training with Sales Administrator Hannah
Another steelworks, another bridge machine...
Calibrating with a chain adapter
Whenever necessary we will make a component
Servicing a hydraulic test head
Servicing a hydraulic test head
This bridge machine is now in Texas
A demonstration of the BRINtronic NEO on location at a Sheffield steelworks
A Model 134 being demonstrated at Pressure Metals, Sheffield
Just one 'corner' of the legendary Sheffield Forgemasters, a landmark in this city, so long associated with steel
A very heavily-used bridge machine in the North of England (white mark obscures client-sensitive information)
Brinell blocks before and after our 23-stage production process
Brinell block (detail)
Our most experienced lab technician inspects a block for surface finish
Laser etching numerals onto a Rockwell block
Brinell test blocks; now and then (1979)
A bridge-type machine in Northern Europe
Another massive Brinell tester heads for Central Europe
Heavy lifting gear about to deployed in removing another bridge-type Brinell tester from Workshop No1
Rockwell calibration blocks, available with custom grids
A Brinell indenter in action
The illuminated graticule of a BRINscope manual microscope
The UK's 'Measurement HQ', the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington
Another bridge machine bed arrives from our subcontractor
A Rockwell diamond indenter withdrawing from the indentation it has just produced
Another example of a machine that's coped with years of steelworks conditions without malfunction
October 2023: our latest X-BHD bridge machine undergoes post-installation checks at the client's workshop in mainland Europe
