Syed Raheel Adeel

IM-098(Section, B)

Metrology & Gauging

Qno.1: List down the positive & negative aspects for each material used for the manufacturing of gage blocks.

. corrosion resistance thermal expansion resistance to wear resistance to scratching resistance to nicks and burrs resistance to chipping long term stability

Steel poor excellent 6.4ppm/F fair to poor fair to poor fair to poor very good fair to poor (unpredictable)

Croblox Chrome-carbide excellent good 4.7ppm/F very good very good good fair excellent

Ceramic excellent very good 5.5ppm/F very good excellent very good good (No long term data at this time) poor (takes 2.2 times longer than Steel) very good (0.5in. AA) excellent

Tungsten-carbide (Not available from Webber) fair poor 2.5ppm/F excellent very good good fair to good (No long term data. Not available from Webber) fair (takes 1.5 times longer than Steel) (Not available from Webber) very good

thermal conductivity (ability to acclimate to its surroundings) surface finish wring ability (ability to make combinations)

very good fair to good (0.7in. AA) fair to good

very good (takes 1.2 times longer than Steel) excellent (less than 0.3in. AA) excellent

Qno.2: What are wear blocks and for which purpose they are used? Ans: Wear block are "throw away" blocks whose purpose is to prevent wear on the other blocks in a set. Webber Wear blocks are made from croblox (chrome-carbide) material to provide better wear resistance and longer life. Wear blocks are used at both ends of combinations. The desired length of the combination must include the length of the Wear blocks. The "wear" side should always be on the outside of the combination. This is the side that is to take any punishment or wear during use. The other side of the Wear block should always be kept in as good of condition as possible. Inspect the non-wear side of the gage block before using it in a combination. The non-wear side is to be wrung to the other gage blocks and should not itself scratch any of the blocks it is supposed to protect. When Wear blocks are sufficiently worn and scratched, they may be discarded and replaced at a fraction of the cost that would be necessary if regular gage blocks had to be replaced.

Syed Raheel Adeel

IM-098(Section, B)

Metrology & Gauging

Qno.3: What do you understand about the grades of gage blocks. Make a table and list down all the grades of gage blocks along with their purpose. Ans : Gauge blocks being used to measure the height of a ball bearing and a plug gage using interferometry. Gauge blocks are available in various grades, depending on their intended use. The grading criterion is tightness of tolerance on their sizes; thus higher grades are made to tighter tolerances and have higher accuracy and precision. Various grading standards include: JIS B 7506-1997 (Japan)/DIN 861-1980 (Germany), ASME (US), BS 4311: Part 1: 1993 (UK). Tolerances will vary within the same grade as the thickness of the material increases. reference (AAA): small tolerance (0.05 m) used to establish standards calibration (AA): (tolerance +0.10 m to 0.05 m) used to calibrate inspection blocks and very high precision gauging inspection (A): (tolerance +0.15 m to 0.05 m) used as toolroom standards for setting other gauging tools workshop (B): large tolerance (tolerance +0.25 m to 0.15 m) used as shop standards for precision measurement More recent grade designations include (U.S. Federal Specification GGG-G-15C): 0.5 generally equivalent to grade AAA 1 generally equivalent to grade AA 2 generally equivalent to grade A+ 3 compromise grade between A and B and ANSI/ASME B89.1.9M, which defines both absolute deviations from nominal dimensions and parallelism limits as criteria for grade determination. Generally, grades are equivalent to former U.S. Federal grades as follows: 00 generally equivalent to grade 1 (most exacting flatness and accuracy requirements) 0 generally equivalent to grade 2 AS-1 generally equivalent to grade 3 (reportedly stands for American Standard - 1) AS-2 generally less accurate than grade 3 K generally equivalent to grade 00 flatness (parallelism) with grade AS-1 accuracy