As a quality manager, it’s your worst nightmare. One of your best customers comes for a visit and brings a box of cracked parts that came from your plant. He wants to know how it happened, and how you are going to ensure it won’t happen again.
Traditionally, materials testing has been conducted with a device attached to the specimen’s surface to measure the strain. These devices, called extensometers, use very accurate strain gages inside or optical scales.
Mark-10 introduces their all-new Model WT3-201M automatic wire crimp pull tester, designed to measure the pull-off forces of wire and tube terminations up to 200 lbF (1 kN).