What Features Should You Look for Before Buying a Pull Off Adhesion Tester?

Final protective coating on products ensures its enhanced life cycle and is hence an extremely important part of the manufacturing process. Whether or not the coating chemistry will work depends on achieving the right adhesion.

Testing for adhesion has been simplified with tools like the Pull-off Adhesion Tester that measures how adhesive coatings are on different surfaces such as metal, wood and concrete.  

Let’s take a look at some of the features that you should be looking at before you buy that tester-
How accurate your equipment is: Since the entire objective of the instrument is to measure the required force to pull coating off a particular surface, accuracy is of prime importance. Achieving an accuracy level of ±1% is recommended and desirable. Compliance to both national as well as international standards provides some degree of reliability. Moreover, self-aligning dollies are a great way to ensure that readings are accurate on all kinds of surfaces.

How simple it is to operate your equipment: At a time when all innovation is geared towards increasing simplicity- of design, operation or control, a complicated, difficult to operate instrument is not what you’re looking for. Look for a tester where the indicator of the pull rate enables the operator to check and adjust the pull rate as desired, select appropriate size of dollies, make changes to units of measurements and store readings simply.

How flexible your equipment is: Look for a tester that is both powerful and flexible enough to test adhesion on different types of surfaces. It should be able to test on curved/flat surfaces, small/big surfaces and on metals, concrete or wooden surfaces.

How durable your equipment is: Given that your tester can be expected to measure the adhesiveness of coating on a variety of surfaces, in different kinds of spaces and environments, it’s ideal to go for a model that is generally impact resistant and guarantees durability and protection against dust, shock and adverse weather.

How easy it is to carry your equipment: Closely related to the point above, portability is central to ensuring that you can pack your equipment and carry it wherever you want to, allowing you mobility and flexibility with respect to where you want to conduct the adhesive pull off test. You should not have to worry about conducting your tests in the field or the laboratory.

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