To assist you in solving your tribological problems we offer the extensive range of 'PLINT' tribometers manufacturered by Messrs. Phoenix Tribology Ltd. This comprehensive range of over 35 tribometers offers you suitable units for your task. Typical applications are Abrasion & Erosion; Friction and Wear; Lubricant Testing; Lubricity, Viscometry & Rheology; Micro-Hardness; Rolling Fatigue/Traction/Two Roller; Rubber Friction (Elastomers); Surface Characterization; just to name a few. Special units are a Hip & Knee Friction Simulator and the successful Automated Clutch Friction (LVFA) Test Machine. The Tribology Teaching unit with various moduls included as well as full PC-data acquisition is also offered for introduction.

Test systems to solve your tribological problems include:

• High-Frequency Friction
• Pin-on-Disc
• Block-on-Ring
• Four-Ball
• 2-Roller
• Crossed cylinder
• Lubricity test acc. to ISO
• Wheel Abrasion
• Gas Jet Erosion
• Scratch test
• LVFA test
• KRL Shear test
• Thrust Washer Test

The leaflet PLINT Tribology Products' gives first information of available units with listings of test configurations. A CD-ROM catalogue is available on request with comprehensive details on each unit. You are able to search according to product name or product order number, contact geometry, keywords or international and local standards. A listing of papers as well guidance notes to select tribometers is also included.

We also offer the Triboproof GmbH Lubricant Test machine according to the patented measuring method Brugger DIN 51347, now available with PC-based analysis unit.

For introduction to tribology the TE.91 Teaching unit from Messrs. TQ Education & Training Ltd. is available; complemented by the units 'Air Bearing', 'Hertzian Contact Pressure' and 'Mitchell Pad Apparatus'.

For the glass and plastics industry a wide range of strain viewers for use in production and quality control; both for qualitative and quantitative measurements, is offered from Sharples Stress Engineers Ltd.

Customers are from a wide range of sectors; e.g. Automotive, Bioengineering, Civil Engineering, Coatings, Composite Materials, Fuels and Lubricants; Glass Industry, Offshore; Plastic Industry, Steel Industry; Railway Engineering, Rubber & Elastomers; Technical Ceramics; Material Research and Universities.

During the current year you may wish to visit our stand at the following events in Germany to discuss your tribological problems in person: