Ceramic Coating Hardness Test

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Ceramic coating hardness test.

It would be highly unlikely someone would come out to intentionally vandalise a car with a real diamond ring real ruby bracelet or tungsten carbide drill. Ceramic pro 9h has unbeatable hardness to protect your paint work. Dense ceramics are often measured for hardness by the knoop hardness test a method of microindentation optimized for brittle materials or thin coatings such as ceramic. Another common test of hardness for coatings is the infamous pencil hardness test or the wolff wilborn test.

9h is a test for the hardness level of the ceramic coating once the surface is cured. The ambient temperature during the test can also be a factor in the drying times and can have an effect on the coating s hardness. Adam s says this kit will provide 9h hardness with over 5 years of protection even in the harshest conditions. A ceramic coating such as opti coat pro c quartz and ceramic pro is a liquid polymer that is applied by hand to the exterior of a vehicle the coating chemically bonds with the vehicle s factory paint.

A pencil is selected and a line about 1 2 inch long is made. Si02 coating will cover the bulk of your protective needs. Virtually each ceramic coating can attain 9h within the pencil hardness scale. If you re unsure about the benefits of ceramic coating but want to test it.

Usually the coating thickness being tested is 25 4 38 1 micron and has been allowed to dry for 7 days. The slickness and structural integrity of a coating is the essential and predominant issue that influences the actual every day expertise with a coating. In actual life circumstances there are way more necessary components than the hardness. 9h refers to the level of hardness test of the ceramic coating once it cures on the surface.

To shock you no pencil today contains lead. Its basis is the pencil scale of hardness used by most graphic designers professional artists and many others to pick a pencil lead strength. The coating would have to be reasonably thick over 150 microns and it should be relatively slippery surface slip is an easy way to fool the pencil hardness test as it doesn t give the pencil the opportunity to bite. The knoop hardness test is most practical for the purpose of ceramic coating tests as only a small indentation is required to evaluate and measure a material s hardness.

This ferrari 458 italia received a ceramic coating plus paint protection film.