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			<title><![CDATA[Tensile tester ?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Does anyone here have experience with or know a good link to a simple INEXPENSIVE shop built tensile tester that would be suitable for testing test blanks generated by a 3d printer ?? </p><p>I have consulted the almighty GOOGLE with less than satisfactory results. </p><p>I have seen and downloaded the plans for the open source &quot;Freeloader&quot; but at a build price of about $4000 for materials not in my budget. <br />Some of the basic Mark 10 products would likely work but IIRC somewhere in the $ 1500 range.</p><p>Should not be that difficult to build some aluminum extrusion a pair of jaws to hold the material a stepper motor , gears and lead screw.<br />a load cell to sense force and a HF digital caliper to measure stretch before failure. </p><p>And possibly a Dataq DI-145 to handle the data acquisition. </p><p><a href="http://www.dataq.com/products/di-145/">http://www.dataq.com/products/di-145/</a></p><p>With the advent of 3d printers and 3d prosthetics IMHO it would be valuable to have access to material testing.</p><p>Tin</p>]]></description>
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