Manual Cupping Tester
Manual Cupping Tester is a BYK-Gardner testing instrument used to evaluate elongation, deformability, flexibility, and adhesion of coatings on metal substrates. This instrument helps users assess the ability of coatings, lacquers, varnishes, or protective coatings to withstand gradual deformation without cracking, peeling, or losing adhesion.
In a cupping test, a coated metal panel is gradually pressed using a spherical punch until the coating surface deforms. During the test, users can observe when cracks, detachment, or film damage begin to appear. The deformation value at the failure point is used to evaluate coating flexibility and the layer’s resistance to substrate deformation.
Manual Cupping Tester is suitable for testing lacquers, paints, varnishes, protective coatings, automotive coatings, industrial coatings, powder coatings, and coated metal panels. This instrument is relevant for quality control laboratories, coating R&D, supplier approval, batch comparison, formulation evaluation, and process validation requiring practical, repeatable, and ISO 1520-compliant coating deformability evaluation.
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| Elongation testing, deformability testing, cupping test, Erichsen test, coating flexibility evaluation, coating adhesion under deformation, cracking evaluation, detachment inspection, lacquers, paints, varnishes, protective coatings, automotive coatings, industrial coatings, powder coatings, coated metal panels, laboratory quality control, R&D testing, supplier approval, batch comparison, formulation evaluation, process validation, and ISO 1520 testing | Manual Cupping Tester | BYK-Gardner instrument for testing elongation and deformability of single-layer and multi-layer coating systems on metal substrates. Used to evaluate cracking, detachment, flexibility, and coating adhesion when a panel undergoes gradual deformation. Suitable for coating quality control and R&D according to cupping test / Erichsen test and ISO 1520. | View Information |
