May 13, 2009 #1 mmalloy92 Materials Joined May 13, 2009 Messages 1 Location US I grabbed the wrong gage out of the cabinet the other day and took my reading with a Shore D gage instead of the appropriate Shore A. Is there a conversion chart for Shore D Readings to Shore A readings?
I grabbed the wrong gage out of the cabinet the other day and took my reading with a Shore D gage instead of the appropriate Shore A. Is there a conversion chart for Shore D Readings to Shore A readings?
May 14, 2009 #2 GrahamBennett Materials Joined Feb 1, 2007 Messages 1,308 Location GB Not really but the two scales do overlap at the top end of the A scale/bottom of the D scale. Upvote 0 Downvote
May 14, 2009 #3 tom1953 Chemical Joined Jul 25, 2005 Messages 177 Location US As Graham points out, there's no direct conversion of Shore A and Shore D. The two links below give some info on this. http://www.matweb.com/reference/shore-hardness.aspx http://www.checkline.com/shore_durometer/Durometer Technical Information Tom Jablonowski, TSE Industries, Inc. http://www.tse-industries.com Upvote 0 Downvote
As Graham points out, there's no direct conversion of Shore A and Shore D. The two links below give some info on this. http://www.matweb.com/reference/shore-hardness.aspx http://www.checkline.com/shore_durometer/Durometer Technical Information Tom Jablonowski, TSE Industries, Inc. http://www.tse-industries.com