Selection Guides

Choosing a thickness gauge by access: ultrasonic wall gauges for one-sided pipe or tank access, contact gauges for sheet, film, foil or paper.

Selecting force equipment: handheld gauges for line checks, load cells and indicators in a rig, motorised test stands and crimp-pull testers for wire.

Choosing a torque tool by job: tightening fasteners to target, testers that check tool output, rotary sensors, in-house calibration, or bottle-cap closure.

Choosing a movement instrument by the question: a stroboscope to freeze motion, a tachometer to read speed, a vibration meter to judge machine health.

Selecting a tension meter by task: a running web or thread, bolt preload, an installed cable or belt, an inline sensor for live readings, or calibration.

Pick a hardness tester by material and standard: Shore durometers for elastomers, IRHD for rubber, Barcol for composites, portable Leeb for metals.

Selecting a moisture meter by material: pin or pinless for timber, wall-damp meters, in-slab RH probes for concrete, grain meters and GRP hull scanners.

Picking a climate instrument: handheld hygrometers for ambient moisture, fixed transmitters, dew-point meters for coating work, infrared for surface temp.

Choosing a surface tester: roughness gauges for machined, ground or blast-cleaned texture, gloss meters for reflected finish — two separate measurements.

Coating inspection means four checks: choose by what the spec hangs on—dry-film thickness, cured hardness, pull-off adhesion or barrier continuity.

Choosing an ultrasonic flaw detector for welds, forgings, castings and in-service steel: match probe and beam angle to the defect and the access.

Choosing a glass meter to read an installed unit in place: pane count and thickness, a low-E coating and its surface, or toughened versus annealed glass.

Choosing an ultrasonic leak detector by survey: compressed-air audits on live pipework, valve and steam-trap checks, or sealed-enclosure seal tests.

Choosing textile test gear by material state: live tension meters for yarn running on the machine, or bench instruments for fabric and packages at rest.

Choosing weighing equipment: platform scales for set-down loads, crane and hanging scales for loads weighed in tension. Match the instrument to the job.