Found this hardness tester

Gilbert M

Gilbert M

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Since I've been watch the hardness tester thread I thought I would start looking again. This morning I found this(Service diamond hardness tester model 8SSA) I hope it wont be a $100 dollar paper weight. I don't know anything about these, but I think it's important to making the best consistent product I can and this will help. I don't know if they all use weights but I don't have any or an indenter. I have a lot of test blocks but they all seem to 'n' ,'b' or't' would they be of any use? I called the company and they have a manual for $25 and a 'c' indenter for $215 and parts if I need them. I'm going to order the manual but I was wondering if eBay indenters were OK? I just saw what @Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith wrote about weights so I will think about that and check on prices of weights if applicable. Is anyone familiar with this or how well they work?
Gilbert
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While researching this information for my own hardness tester purchase, I found a number of threads where people report good experiences with the made-in-china diamond indenters. I've no personal experience with it, however.
 
If the standard HR-150 type diamond indenter will work, it the "Made in China" diamonds from ebay (and other places) should work just fine. I ordered one just to have a spare. Swapping it between the one that came in my HR150A I can't tell the difference. For $12 you can't go wrong!
 
JT and Ken thank you. I'll probably order an indenter tomorrow there's an HR150a I found that says 150kg load and that's what my plate says under "c" scale, I'll measure first but I probably can't wait for the manual .
 
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