Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
(OP)
Dear Americans!
I am manager from road materials testing labroatory in Latvia. We are acredited according to some 30 EU testing methods. Proctor compation, Sand equvalent - all this is qute good level in our laboratory.
So, but now we have works on airport field and the only reasonable way how to get work finished with canalisation, drainage, electricity seems to buy Nuclear Gauge for density measurements - it is accepted buy Superwisor, Main site Engineer or whatever he is called. But somehow Nuclear Gauges are not used in our country at all.
So, My question is as stupid as it is:
1. Which one is preferable - Troxler or Humboldt (I found in our country representatives for these two). - I don`t know how to use gauges, so I don`t know what is important and what to ask here :)
2. If we are buying troxler 3450 (studied a little bit) It seems quite good for our asphalt compaction measurements too.
3. what price you are paying in USA for 3450 model? I got proposal for 8895 LVL + 21%VAT. In dollars it means 22 900 (Tax included). I guess they made quite enormous profit margin up on it. So - what price you are paying for this gauge, just gauge - no calibration included, no teching. Nothing?
4. And from p.3. I have an idea - may be it is reasonable to find some way for direct import from States to Latvia?
I am manager from road materials testing labroatory in Latvia. We are acredited according to some 30 EU testing methods. Proctor compation, Sand equvalent - all this is qute good level in our laboratory.
So, but now we have works on airport field and the only reasonable way how to get work finished with canalisation, drainage, electricity seems to buy Nuclear Gauge for density measurements - it is accepted buy Superwisor, Main site Engineer or whatever he is called. But somehow Nuclear Gauges are not used in our country at all.
So, My question is as stupid as it is:
1. Which one is preferable - Troxler or Humboldt (I found in our country representatives for these two). - I don`t know how to use gauges, so I don`t know what is important and what to ask here :)
2. If we are buying troxler 3450 (studied a little bit) It seems quite good for our asphalt compaction measurements too.
3. what price you are paying in USA for 3450 model? I got proposal for 8895 LVL + 21%VAT. In dollars it means 22 900 (Tax included). I guess they made quite enormous profit margin up on it. So - what price you are paying for this gauge, just gauge - no calibration included, no teching. Nothing?
4. And from p.3. I have an idea - may be it is reasonable to find some way for direct import from States to Latvia?





RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
Can`t find on google any kind of specification for your gauge. Is your spelling correct?
BigH,
Price is not the biggest concern what worries me. Usability, service and all other questions how it is used for daily works on site. For example - is it used by site emploees like falling weight express methods (Loadman) or Beldornii. Or there is more complicate aproach - laboratory stuff takes samples for proctor testing, then have that optimal compatcion/humidity curve, writes into Nuclear Gauge 100% proctor value and then measures point after point works what was done. Then he comes back to laboratory, loads into PC measurements, makes test protocol for accreditation reference, then dept manager prints out test report for customer (usually for project manager - other department people)?
If it is possible to do second scenario - how is done calibration, inter-laboratoric testing, paralel testing and all this formal tasks. Because N.Gauge can be used for lot of surfaces - soils, asphalts, concrete etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
I know the shiopping charges are quite high as they need to be insured and they also are basically treated as hazardous by most if not all carriers.
As for Humboldt gauges, I used to have 2 older 5000B models, and I did not like them at all. They were always in need of calibration and I found that they were not very accurate when it came to moisture readings in soils (We commonly found differences on the order to 7 to 10% between the gauge and an "oven" moisture with the Humboldts compared to 1-3% with the Troxler).
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.
RE: Troxler and Humboldt gauge? Price, etc.