Sin­gle Impact Tester –
esp-10

Chip Resis­tance Test

Resis­tance to chip­ping of multi-coat sys­tems is an impor­tant fac­tor in auto­mo­tive fin­ish­ing. To pro­tect auto body parts, a multi-coat sys­tem is applied for cor­ro­sion and mechan­i­cal stress. The com­plete coat­ing struc­ture is deci­sive for its resis­tance to chip­ping. Changes to the coat­ing for­mu­la­tion or appli­ca­tion pro­cess can have an effect on the extent of the dam­age. The multi-impact test method - sharp-edged, chilled cast­ing pie­ces are thrown against a test panel by com­pressed air - sim­u­lates the actual stress as closely as pos­si­ble. How­ever, the mul­ti­im­pact test is dif­fi­cult to repro­duce. To improve the pre­ci­sion a sin­gle impact mech­anism was devel­oped.

The esp-10 was devel­oped to test the resis­tance to chip­ping of mul­ti­coat sys­tems. In addi­tion, not only the size of the dam­aged area, but also its depth, i.e. the so-called “sepa­ra­tion plane” can be eval­u­ated.

• Portable instru­ment can be run in cool­ing cham­bers (³ -10 °C) and out­side the lab­o­ra­tory
• Impact tool with wedge-shaped blade
• Com­pressed air of 3 bar accel­er­ates the ball
• Test­ing instru­ment in accor­dance with BMW stan­dard

Comes com­plete with:
Sin­gle Impact Tester esp-10
Weight
Con­nec­tion hose
Oper­at­ing instruc­tions