Mikronix Tungsten Carbide Slip Gauges are manufactured from specially selected grade of Carbide with hardness of 1500 Vickers. Rigid attention is paid throughout the manufacturing process for flatness, parallelism and every slip gauge is rigorously checked and calibrated in our NABL accredited laboratory.
Why Tungsten Carbide ?
The mere suspicion that carbide is a brittle material had held back its use for quite some time, till a number of actual trials were conducted. It is some 50 years, since tests in the USA indicated that hard metal slips could outlast steel by at least ten times and in certain conditions even 100 times.
Features
Dimensional Stability
Ability to Wring
Resistance to Corrosion
Resistance to Wear
Economy
Mikronix Tungsten Carbide Slip Gauges are offered in metric sizes from 0.2mm to 100 mm and in inch sizes from 0.01 to 4 inches. They can be supplied in standard sets to meet any grade of national or international standard. The sets mentioned here are commonly used and manufactured by us ; any other sets can be supplied against specific requirement. Metric sets are manufactured with 1mm & 2mm base. Sets of 2mm base are recommended by BS4311 for extra rigidity.
*Click here to go to Grades & Tolerance Table for reference to following sets available
Simple maintenance with no requirements of any anti - corrosion treatment
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No adverse effects due to fingering while using.
Resistant to IMPACT
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Zirconia ceramic blocks are hard and highly tough to withstand the knocks and drops that occur during use and will not chip or fracture easily.
Resistant to WEAR
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About 10 times life or even more compared to steel slip gauges. The natural stability and durability due to its low friction co-efficient maintains their geometry longer.
Superior WRINGABILITY
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The uniform and close grain structure enables the blocks rigidly wrung together and easy to operate
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Dents and burns are not easily produced on gauge surface
THERMAL expansion
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Co-efficient of thermal expansion of ceramic is 10×10^-6/ºC is very close to that of steel by 1.5×10^-6/°C.
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The lowest thermal conductivity makes these gauge blocks easy to use at different temperatures.
