Instructional Video Demonstrates Proper Procedures for Bonding Using M-Bond 610 Adhesive
MALVERN, PA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 08/29/11 --
Vishay Precision Group, Inc. (NYSE: VPG) today announced the availability of a new training video on its Micro-Measurements website (www.micro-measurements.com). Presented in HD quality, the six-minute video offers a step-by-step demonstration of the procedures and materials needed for properly bonding a WK-Series strain gage (Option W) using Micro-Measurements' M-Bond 610 adhesive. Additional videos will be released in the coming months covering a variety of related topics.
Micro-Measurements' WK-Series of fully encapsulated K-alloy gages with high-endurance leadwires offers the widest temperature range and most extreme environmental capability of any general-purpose gage. The devices feature a normal temperature range of -269°C to +290°C, and a short-term range of -269°C to +400°C. Micro-Measurements' M-Bond 610 adhesive is a high-performance epoxy resin, formulated specifically for bonding strain gages and special-purpose sensors.
The video "M-Bond 610 Adhesive Used on WK-Series Strain Gage" covers five steps in installing a WK-Series strain gage with M-Bond 610: mixing the adhesive; gage preparation and layout; adhesive application; clamping and cure requirements; and tape removal and postcure. Additional resources offered with the video include the M-Bond 610 datasheet and Instruction Bulletins B-129 and B-130, which outline the complete steps for surface preparation for strain gage bonding and for strain gage installations with M-Bond 610 adhesive, respectively.
The new training video joins three previously released videos on the website that demonstrate key procedures that are the basis for any meaningful use of a stain gage, including surface preparation, bonding, soldering leadwires, and applying a protective coating. Accompanied by additional instruction bulletins and application notes, the videos include "Strain Gage Surface Preparation for Steel and Aluminum Alloys," "CEA Strain Gage Installation With M-Bond 200 Adhesive," and "Soldering and Coating a CEA Strain Gage."
The subjects covered in the videos are also addressed in complete detail in VPG's training programs. Course descriptions and date/location information can be found on the Micro-Measurements website at www.vishaypg.com/micro-measurements/training-programs. Additionally, designers may contact Micro-Measurements at [email protected] to be connected with an applications engineer, technical sales manager, or member of the sales force regarding the subject matter covered in the videos or any other related topic.
About Micro-Measurements
The Micro-Measurements division of Vishay Precision Group is an industry leader in the development, manufacture, and marketing of sensors for high-precision strain measurement. Micro-Measurements offers a full complement of strain gages, data acquisition systems, PhotoStress equipment and coatings, and supplies necessary to obtain accurate, reliable stress data. Our products are used throughout the industrialized world -- both in the practice of stress analysis and as the sensing elements in a wide variety of transducers for measuring physical variables (weight, force, torque, pressure, etc.).
About Vishay Precision Group
Vishay Precision Group produces sensors based on precision resistive foil technology, and sensor-based systems. We provide vertically integrated products and solutions for multiple growing markets in the areas of stress, force, weight, pressure and current measurements. As a spin-off from Vishay Intertechnology, our decades-long track record encompasses innovations in foil precision resistors, which we invented, current sensors, and strain gages, which have served as a foundation for our more recent expansion into strain gage instrumentation, load cells and transducers, weighing modules and complete systems for process control and on-board weighing. Vishay Precision Group may be found on the Internet at www.vishaypg.com.
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