Glasses have been a part of our industrial sectors for a long time and are utilized in many sections as raw material, as compound sections, or as surface material. The glasses are much in demand due to their non-reactive nature against any material. But a product so much high in demand must go through a strict inspection round. Overall, the material inspection process in glass is not too complex however when it's about the micro sizing area of the glasses, the inspection can go critical. Let’s see how a wall thickness gauge can resolve the inspection issue in the glass industry.

Wall thickness measurement of glass material

Majorly the glasses are used to manufacture bottles or optical wires may be. When they are made into so much thinner circular vessels it gets difficult to measure the thickness of such material. As it gets critical to put the thickness measuring callipers inside the glass bottles, or glass pipes. Hence, we need a promising solution that can give us an accurate thickness measurement of glass bottles or pipes.

One technique that can be used for such applications is the Hall effect thickness measurement method. This is a non-destructive thickness measurement technique that can be used specifically for testing the wall thickness of non-ferrous materials like plastic, PET material, PVC pipes or glasses as we are discussing in this blog.

In the Hall effect testing principle, a ferrous ball of a specific diameter and weight is placed inside the vessel which can be a bottle or a pipe. Once the ferrous ball is inside one can place the magnetic probe outside the product surface, when that is done, the iron ball inside will automatically get forced to stick to the probe outside through magnetic forces, and the difference between both is the wall thickness of the material.

Danatronics Wall Thickness Guage is a next-generation solution for evaluating the thickness of non-ferrous material without cutting or destructing the product. It works on the principle of Hall-effect measurement and has a wide range of iron balls with different weights and radii so that one can measure the thickness through various sizes of opening. The equipment is compact and portable in nature and therefore can be used anywhere on the production line at different stages of production or in the final packaging stage too. The instrument is also used in research labs and educational institutions too.

The equipment comes with an in-built Lithium-ion battery with 16 hours of battery life. It can work up to a wide range of temperatures starting from -20 to 50 degrees celsius. Has a user-friendly Illuminating rubber keypad and delivers multilingual operations. It can store a lot of data so no worries about changing the data cards frequently when you have onboard & removable storage of up to 32 GB Micro-SD card. The device brings an innovative display with high-resolution colour, a feature of a sunlight-readable screen.

It allows for measuring the thickness in a wide range starting from 0.0001″-1.00″ (0.001-25.4 mm). Also comes with one year warranty with 100% replacement for any accidental damage. The calibration feature of the machine can be said as a USP as it allows multiple calibration features and one can test the accuracy of the machine readings way before the actual test. It is a bliss for testing the thickness of glass material and can be used for the non-destructive evaluation of pipes or glass bottles. The device is also designed as per international test standards delivering precision bases test results that will be accepted worldwide.