Anyone got a machine for testing tensile strength? Could they test 
something for me? Beer money available.

Thanks,

--Peter Fairbrother

On or around Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:15:46 +0100, Peter Fairbrother
 enlightened us thusly:

>Anyone got a machine for testing tensile strength? Could they test 
>something for me? Beer money available.
>

I've got a range rover, if you could fix the other end to the house...:-)
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Peter

I have access to a small, teaching style, tensometer.  What do you
wish to test, can it be posted to me in Fareham, Hants?

Toby

On 27 Aug, 19:15, Peter Fairbrother  wrote:
> Anyone got a machine for testing tensile strength? Could they test
> something for me? Beer money available.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Peter Fairbrother

Toby wrote:
> Peter
> 
> I have access to a small, teaching style, tensometer.  What do you
> wish to test, can it be posted to me in Fareham, Hants?

It will be a sample of a material I'm developing for use in high 
pressure hot oxygen for rocket engines.

(I finally got the explosives licensing sorted today! Yippee! :) I have 
to say that both the Wiltshire Police especially, and also the HSE, were 
very helpful, no "jobsworth"-ing, which was extra-good as neither had 
come across the situation before)

I haven't made the sample yet, what size and shape would be good? 
Expected yield strength will be around 300 MPa / 40 ksi, but this is no 
more than a guess. It's a near-net-shape technology [1], and a pig to 
machine, so I'll have to make a sample especially. As small as 
practicable please, as it's kinda expensive (ouch).

Posting is no problem. It will take a week or so to make a sample once I 
know the size and shape needed.

[1] I will give details eventually, but not now, it's still in 
development. Not very useful unless you want to work in hot HP oxygen 
though.


Thanks,

-- Peter


> 
> Toby
> 
> On 27 Aug, 19:15, Peter Fairbrother  wrote:
>> Anyone got a machine for testing tensile strength? Could they test
>> something for me? Beer money available.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Peter Fairbrother
>

Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> Anyone got a machine for testing tensile strength? Could they test 
> something for me? Beer money available.

Many of the Uni's and even some colleges have them.    Maybe even try 
Lloyd Instruments down at Southampton way.  I used to have contacts 
there but been out of that game a while now.


Wayne....