Description
• Mounting divided to Hot Mounting(Thermosets – Phenolic, Epoxy, Acrylic) and Cold Mounting (Acrylic, Epoxy, Polyester)
• Mounting helps easy Abrasion, protect edge of specimen and keep consistency of material surface
• Hot Mounting Resin is Powder Type and Cold Mounting Resin is Liquid Type
• The important point of Hot Mounting is Resin’s condition. If Resin’s material is not match with Pressure and Temperature requirement, it can make crack on the sample’s surface or make big scratch on complete sample.
Therefore, need to know character of material to find best Pressure and Temperature
• Phenolic Resin is most economic and can choose variable COLOR
• Can choose the color by material and high contractility and keep edge available
• But has low Hardness
• Mold Pressure : 246 ~ 295 kgf/cm2
• Mold Temperature : 150 ~ 180℃
• In case of conductive Phenolic Resin, which need for Metallographic sample preparation by Electromagnetic technology. It provides convenient to user.
• The Conductive Resin’s electricity go through the specimen to show hidden crack
• Recommend to EBSD Analysis
• If you see resin color after mounting by alcohol cleaning, Mounting condition (Enough high temperature, pressure or cooling time) was not enough to Mounting