Name of the device: paint and coating hardness tester (paint and surface coating scratch test)
Application: It is a tool for testing the hardness and scratch resistance of coating materials such as coatings, lacquers, plastics, etc
Manufacturer: NEURTEK Spain and TQC Netherlands
Pendulum hardness tester: determination of hardness with KONIG and PERSOZ methods.
In both methods, the number of oscillations of the pendulum on the surface of the sample shows the hardness of the sample.